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WHAT WENT WRONG

The African Queen (1951)

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

Flop, Film, Film History, Blockbuster, Acting, Disaster, History, Tv & Film, Movie, Directing, Hollywood

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Elephants, dysentery, and cannibalism, oh my! Join Chris and Lizzie as they venture down the river in 1951’s ‘The African Queen’. Find out why Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and John Huston ventured to Africa to escape HUAC, how they were terrorized by bugs, and why John may have accidentally… eaten a person.

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

That's audible.com.uk.

0:09.6

Wondery.

0:12.6

So you wakes up and somebody's written cock and balls on her mirror.

0:16.4

She's like vomiting to a bucket.

0:19.0

John Houston and Humphrey Buggard are like 50 plus year old men at this point, you know, acting like teen boys.

0:24.1

And action.

0:41.9

Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to another episode of What Went Wrong,

0:45.6

your favorite podcast, Full Stop, that just so happens to be about movies,

0:49.5

and how it is nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one,

0:57.8

let alone a colonial romance set against Africa's luscious backdrops staring a couple of whitties.

1:05.6

As always, I am one of your host, Chris Winterbauer, joined, as always, by my co-host Lizzie Bassett.

1:08.3

Lizzie, what do you have in store for us today?

1:18.0

Well, my first question, Chris, is how do you think we would fare on a river steamboat in the turn-of-the-century Belgian Congo?

1:25.1

Well, I can tell you, Lizzie, I just would have ignited that gelatin explosive right away and ended things immediately.

1:44.3

I think that would be the only reasonable solution. Yeah, exactly. Quick murder suey. That's all right. Great. That's fine. So, you know, we have a movie where they chose not to do a murder suey, and that is the African Queen. Yeah. Chris, had you seen this movie before? I had never seen the African Queen before. This was my first time seeing it.

1:46.1

Well, what did you think?

1:47.7

I really liked it overall.

1:50.1

And I really loved the first half.

1:53.7

And I really loved the ending.

1:55.9

I thought the ending was really fun.

1:57.6

And spoilers, I love the German chip captain, marrying them, you know, shortly before

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