In this captivating episode, we journey through the thrilling narrative of "The African Queen," featuring the iconic performances of Humphrey Bogart and Greer Garson. Set against the backdrop of World War I in German East Africa, the story unfolds with Rose Sayer, a missionary, and Charlie Allnut, a rough-and-tumble boat captain, as they navigate the treacherous waters of the Ulanga River. Their mission is to sink a German gunboat, the Louisa, using makeshift torpedoes crafted from oxygen cylinders and explosives. As they face rapids, leeches, and the threat of capture, their relationship evolves from mutual disdain to deep affection, culminating in a daring plan to strike a blow for the Allies.
The episode captures the essence of adventure and romance, highlighting the transformation of Rose and Charlie as they confront external dangers and internal conflicts. Their journey is marked by moments of humor, tension, and heartfelt connection, ultimately leading to a climactic showdown with the German forces. The narrative is enriched by the lush African setting and the palpable chemistry between the leads, making "The African Queen" a timeless tale of courage and love in the face of adversity.
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Hollywood. Leader Brothers Company, the makers of Luxe violet soap, bring you the Luxe radio theater starring Humphrey Bogart and Greg Olsen in the African Queen. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, mister Irving Cummings.
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Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. When the Academy Award for best performance by an actor was presented last March, a star who had built his reputation with great performances of gangster parts was among those nominated. And Humphrey Bogart won that award with great acclaim in the unusual role of the intemperate skipper of the African queen. And as his costar of this John Houston production, we have beautiful Grier Gossen, another Academy Award winner. Tonight, miss Gossen will vary her popular role of the charming wife to play a straight laced spinster.
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For more than a year, the missionaries have seen only one white man, mister Olna, pilot of the African Queen, a filthy, dilapidated launch at gas subway up and down the river.
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Do we have some more tea, mister Orna? Thanks, miss. I I don't mind if I do. Just listen to this stomach of mine. I mean, the way it keeps growling and squealing the way it sounds, you think I had a high end inside of me.
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You, you do take sugar.
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A queer thing, Edith. Now what do you suppose makes a man's stomach carry on like this? Are you, you're planning to stay overnight, mister O'Connor? Oh, no miss. I I gotta get upriver and back to the mine. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I probably won't be coming around this way for a couple months. But, but but what about our mail? Don't look like there's gonna be any mail for a while on account of the war. War?
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What war? Where?
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Europe, miss. Germany and England. England?
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You really mean war?
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Yeah. That's what to tell me, reverend. But what do you know about it? What's happened? Well, now let's see. Oh, yes. French are in it too and all them, all them little countries, Austria, Hungary, Belgium. I I forget who's with who though. Oh, brother. Yes, Rose.
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I know. This is Germany's Africa. We we are enemy aliens.
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Now what harm could anybody do the Germans in this godforsaken place?
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God has not forsaken this place, mister mister Ornott, as my brother's presence here will bear witness. Oh, no offense, miss. Well, I'll be getting aboard the queen and shoving off.
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Thanks for the tea, miss. Goodbye, mister Ornott. Goodbye, and thank you.
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Oh, that that wretched little man with his foul cigar. Indifference about the war. He's Canadian. Doesn't he realize he's in this too? Shouldn't we try to get to Embazi? I mean, why we can.
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The shepherd does not forsake his flock when the wolves are prowling. We shall stay here, Rose.
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Yes, brother. Yes. Of course. Come, dear. Come.
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We shall pray. Miss, it's me, miss. I come back a lot sooner than I said. Oh, well, the Germans have been here too,
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Yes. They've they've been here, mister Olat.
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When I got to the mines of Lambazi everything was a shamble. Deserted. Burnt to the ground just like the village here. Reverend around miss? My brother
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is dead.
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Oh. Oh, well now now ain't that awful. If some Germans are shooting Reverend, there ain't nobody's face. They were here three days ago.
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They didn't shoot him. They they struck him and his heart was was bad and Oh, that's
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well, that's certainly too bad, miss. That's all I can say. I tell you what, miss. You get your things together, we'll get aboard the queen and clear out. Them Germans are sure to come back. But why? Why should they come back? Why do we look for a boat, miss, for the African queen? She's not much, but they give a lot to get their hands on her. You bet. And what's aboard her too? Blast and gelatin, tin grubs, cylinders of oxygen and hydrogen. Heaps of things I was bringing to the mind. But where could we go? I out there on the river, miss. Get behind an island where it's quiet and safe. We can talk about what to do then. I get ready. That's the ticket, miss. You bet. You come with me.
Well, miss, so far so good. Here we are safe and sound as you might say. A nice shady spot and a nice lonesome spot. The question is what next? Quite, mister Ornan. We got heaps of grub aboard, 2,000 cigarettes, and two cases of gin. Gin? Why, we could sit out to war here if we wanted to. All the comforts at home, miss, including running water.
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Mister Ornat, we simply cannot remain off a backwater island until the war is over. Can't we now, miss?
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Well, you've got the map there. Show me a way out and I'll take it. The British will certainly launch an attack.
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Now, the only question is which way will they come?
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From the sea maybe. Up the railway to Limpopes. Well, that'll put all them Germans between them and us. Might not our troops come up from The Congo. Miss, miss, look. You see this lake on the map? Yes. That's a hundred miles of lake and there ain't nothing gonna cross it while the Louise is there. The Louise? She's a hundred ton steamer, miss, and German. She's boss of the lake because she's got six pounders. The biggest guns in Central Africa. Oh. We're in a bit of a fix, miss, whichever way you look at it. This river runs into that lake, does it not? Yes, miss.
Yes. It does. But if you got any ideas of getting in there in his launch, you better get rid of them. Why? Well, you look at the map, miss. This here is Shona. The Germans are before the Shona. They blow us right out of the water and before that, there's the rapid. 20 miles of water that's like it was coming out of a fire hose. But it has been done. Yes, miss. In a canoe, a fella named Spengler, he almost Mister Ornat,
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what did you say was in those wooden boxes?
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Them? Them's blasting gelatin, miss. Is it dangerous? Bless you. No. That safety stuff takes a detonator to set it off. And what are those long torpedo like things? More stuff for the mind. That's, oxygen and hydrogen cylinders, miss. Mister Ornette, you're a machinist, aren't you? Kind of a fixer, miss Jack of all trades like they say. Could you make a torpedo? How's that, miss?
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Could you make a torpedo?
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A torpedo? Ask me to make a dreadnought and do it upright, miss. A torpedo? You you really don't know what you're asking. Well, there just ain't nothing so complicated as the inside of a torpedo. It's got gyroscopes and compressed air chambers. They're only to make it go, aren't they? Well, we've got the African
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Queen. How's that, miss? And if we were to, to fill those cylinders with that blasting gelatine and then, then fix them so that they'd stick out over the end of this boat and then, then if we were to run this boat against the side of a ship, well, would it go off just like a torpedo would, wouldn't they? Yeah. Yeah. That's right, miss. Well, then we could, we could point the launch towards the ship and, just before she hit, we could dive off, couldn't
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we? Sure. Sure, miss. Absolutely. Only there ain't nothing to torpedo. Oh, but there is. Is what? The Louisa. The Louisa. Oh, now don't talk silly, miss. You can't do that. Honest you can't. I told you before, we can't get down the river. Just stay in your day. In a canoe. If a German did it, we can do. Not in no launch weekend. Well, how do you know? You've never tried. Well, I never tried shooting myself in the head neither. In other words
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in other words, mister Ornat, you're refusing to help your country in her hour of need.
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I wouldn't put it that way. Just how would you put it? Alright, miss. Have it your own way, but don't blame me for what happens. Very well then. Let's get started. Will you mean now? Now. But there ain't two hours of daylight left, miss. We can go a long way in two hours, miss Lorna. But the boiler the fire's gone out practically. We can't move till we get the old kettle boiling again. Well, you're well stocked with firewood.
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Do so.
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Refusing to help your country in an hour of need. Could you make a torpedo, mister Olna? Well, do so, mister Olna. Did you say something, mister Olna? Mean, miss. I I didn't say nothing, miss. Anything wrong, mister Orna? Just this old boiler, miss. She's leaking steam. See? See? Oh.
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Why are you kicking the boiler, mister Olmer? Heat pump's full of rust and scum. She gets clogged up. And that's all you have to do? Just kick it?
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It's knowing how to kick her, miss. She gets peevish now and then ever since I dropped a screwdriver down the safety valve. What would happen if you didn't kick it? A whole boil would blow up. Then why don't you dismantle the safety valve and remove the screw You know, I'm gonna do that one of these days. The only reason I haven't up to now is that I kinda like kicking her. She's all I've got.
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Well, she she seems to be operating quite normally now.
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Yeah. Like I like I said, miss, all she needs is a good boot. Well, you ready to call it a day? It's kind of a kind of like a, lagoon up ahead. It's a real nice place when the bugs ain't too bad. I shan't complain, mister Ornat. We have much to be thankful for. Oh, and that's a fact, miss. It's like they say, it ain't never so bad that it can't be worse. Mister Onlet, do you suppose anyone has seen us? Sir, there ain't nobody in these parts, miss, forgetting the beasts of the forest. Kinda kinda hot, ain't it? I could do with a drink.
I got an extra cup here, miss, if you're gonna have one. Oh, no. No. Thank you. What is it? Gin, miss. Gin. Something wrong? No. Well, if you're worried about there not being enough, why there's, two full cases aboard. Oh, no. No. Please. Well, maybe you'd like a nice cup of tea. Well, thank you. You get real service on the African queen. Queen. Hey. See this? Hot water all the time. I'll just be boiler. It'll taste a little rusty, but then we can't have everything, can't we? Hey, miss. Just to have the tea to suit your taste like to say on the box. Thank you. Don't mention it. Well, you just sit and relax and after a bit, I'll start thinking about supper.
How long you been out here, miss? In Africa?
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Oh, almost ten years.
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You ever get homesick?
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Well, I I'm afraid I have been homesick. Maybe time. It's Sunday afternoon that I think of most. The peace and the quiet of home.
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On Sunday afternoons, I was always sleeping one off.
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Sleeping one oh,
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what brought you to Africa, mister Ornat? The Zambezi Bridge, miss. A whole boatload of us Canucks came over to work on it. Don't know yet what they wanted a bridge for, but then, why did the chicken cross the road? I beg your pardon? Nothing, miss. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes I wish I was back but then I remember how I'd have to be taking orders from somebody while out here. I well, I'm my own boss. Well, drink your tea, miss. I'll I'll go fix you some grunts.
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Now what do you think you're doing, miss? Well, if I may draw some hot water from the boiler, I'll wash these dishes.
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Mostly. I, I just hold them over the side and let the current do the washing. If you will forgive me, that's about what I imagine. Friendliness is next to godliness, miss?
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Is that so amusing, mister Olmer?
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No, miss. You don't see no crocodiles around, do you? Crocodiles? No. It's too shallow for them. Well, I, I could do with a bath before I turn in. I I'd like to bath myself. Well, now you do the dishes back here and I'll go off the bow. So long as we look so long as we don't look, it don't matter. Well, how about it, miss? Well, very well, mister Orloff. That's a ticket. I won't be a minute. Just a slash or two.
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Mister Orlut. Mister Orlut. Right here, miss. How's the water? Oh, no. No. No. Stay just where you are. I what do you I I can't get back into the boat. Well, I'll give you a hand then. I've been trying to climb up, but I can't. I'm afraid I I do need help. Is that blanket still there? Yes, miss. Well, if you will please hold it up in front of you and close your eyes. Well, I just got two hands, miss. And if I hold up the blanket Then then just close your eyes.
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I got them closed, miss. Now here, you grab my arm. Oh, thank you.
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But but don't you dare move until I say so. Oh, no, miss. I I bathed in my undergarments. You'll have to wait until I Oh, it's alright, miss. It's alright.
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You just say when. Well, you feel better, miss? Oh, yes. Yes. I I do. Well, now you better sleep here under the awning, miss, in case it rains. Here's a couple of rugs. There ain't no fleas on them. Where will, where will you sleep, mister Olaf? Me or forward, miss. And if it'll make you feel better, you can hang up one of them tarpaulins like a kind of a curtain sort of. Thank you. Good night. I'll turn out the landing if you're ready, miss. I'm quite ready. Good night, miss. Good night, miss.
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Mister Allnut. Boy,
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I I'm sorry. I woke you, miss. What are you doing? Alright. I ain't doing nothing, miss. Just getting out of the way. Well, go away this instant. Yes, miss.
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Mister Ornat? Yes, miss? You may come in out of the rain if you wish.
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Thank you, miss. Miss? Yes? I'm sorry I gave you such a turn. Oh, that's quite alright.
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I I didn't realize that you were just how hard it was raining.
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I won't get near you, miss. There's heaps of room. Good night, mister Ornot. Good night, miss.
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Before we return with act two of The African Queen, here's Frances Scully, popular Hollywood Commentator. Wasn't it a pleasure, Ken, to meet the famous swimmer Annette Kellerman on your program last week? Oh, yes. Indeed, Frances. She's a remarkable woman. No wonder Metro Goldwyn Mayer filmed her life story and called it million dollar mermaid. Well, the film looks like a million dollars in gorgeous Technicolor with stars like Esther Williams, Walter Pigeon, Victor Mature, and David Brine. Esther Williams certainly does some sensational routines in those beautiful water ballets. Oh, and she looks so glamorous, particularly in the famous one piece bathing suit that shocked Boston in the nineteen twenties.
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Well, I thought it was an exceptionally good love story too, Frances, with both Victor Mature and David Bryan in love with Esther Williams as she becomes the toast of two continents. Yes. And Annette Kellerman, Esther Williams plays an exciting role, filled with glamour and romance in million dollar mermaid. Well, I can't imagine a mermaid more beautiful than Esther Williams. In Technicolor, her complexion looks like a million dollars. And yet, Ken, Esther Williams complexion care is one that every girl can use. It's luxe toilet soap. Like nine out of 10 famous Hollywood Stars, Esther's devoted to luxe soap care. And when all these famous beauties agree on one complexion soap, you know it must do something wonderful for skin. Must really smooth and freshen your complexion. And that's just what Bailey Luxe care does. Its skin tonic action helps your skin retain natural moisture.
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Act two of the African queen starring Humphrey Bogart as mister Allnut and Greer Gosselin as Rose. It's the following morning, and the African queen wheezes her way down the river. Mister Arnott is at the rusty engine, administering with tools and frequent kicks of his experienced foot. And now suddenly what he is dreading is upon them. The sluggish river has turned into whirlpool and rapid.
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Hell, miss? How'd you like it? Like it? White water. Rapid. Oh, I never dreamed of it. I don't blame you for being scared, miss. Ain't nobody in his right mind ain't scared of white water. I was about to say that I never dreamed that any mere physical experience
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could be so stimulating. How's that, miss? I seldom known such excitement. A few times in my dear brother's sermon, when his spirit was really upon him, I felt What do you mean you wanna go on? But of course I do. Miss, you're crazy. Oh, I must say I'm filled with admiration for your skills, mister Ornut. Do you suppose that after I practice steering a bit more, that someday I might try? Miss, let me tell you something. Those rapids back there ain't nothing to watch in front of me. Oh, I can hardly wait. Miss. Oh, and now that I'd had a taste of it. I don't wonder that you love boating, mister Olmets. Boating?
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Excuse me, miss. I need a drink.
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Mister Ornat, if, if something's the matter, please, I must know. It's nothing you'd understand. You're you're drinking gin again, mister Ornat. Yes, miss. I sure am. It's been such a pleasant day up until now. What is it that's that's driving you to drink, mister Olmets?
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Alright. I'll tell you. It's all your foolish talk about us going on into the lake, all this crazy talk about the Louise,
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but we ain't gonna go. Well, of course, we are. What an absurd idea. What an absurd idea. What an absurd idea. Why don't you want to go on? Because of the river and the rapids and then Shona. Shona. Oh, yes. Yes. River, Germans have a fort. Yeah. You're darn right, Shona. This one bullet not blasting gelatin missing would be a little bits and pieces. They will go by the fort at night. Oh, no. We won't. They will go by day. We can go on the far side of the river, speeding along just as fast as ever we can. Gonna go speeding along any fight. You agreed to go? I never did. I never agreed to anything.
Mister Ornette, you are a liar. And what is worse than that? A a coward.
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Who? Cowards yourself. You ain't no lady. No, miss. That's what my poor old mother would say to you. My poor old mother was to hear you. Whose boy is this anyway?
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I asked John because I was sorry for you. That's what you get for feeling sorry for people.
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Oh, I ain't sorry for you anymore. You're crazy psalm singing dried up old maid.
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Mister Ornards,
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you are drunk. Not half what I'm gonna be either. There was a bold fisherman that sailed for Bob Pemlico to get some old piggy and the gay back. Oh, oh, miss. Oh, my head.
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Oh, have pity, miss. Mister Ornut, you are still intoxicated.
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Oh, the gin. That gin you're pouring into the river. Indeed it is. Oh, you you don't know what you're doing, miss. I'll perish without a hair in the dark. Look at you reeling about senselessly. My head. Oh, my head. I'm warning you, miss.
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That gin ain't your property. It's no one's property now. 21 empty bottles floating on the wave,
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and I'm glad. A criminal. That's what you are. Oh, I'll die. Then what'll you do? I'll suffer and die, and I'll float on the wave. It's all you're doing here. You did it all.
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Oh, it's you. Good morning.
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I, I look different. I, I shaved. Oh, I see you're reading your Bible. It's a good thing to have a lady aboard, miss. Sets a man a good example. A man alone, well, he gets to live in like a hog. And too with me, it's, always put things off. But with you, miss, it's business before pleasure every time. I, I tell you it's like an inspiration. And that old engine, I ain't got that old engine so clean in years. Just look at her, miss. You don't care? I only had some clean clothes like you. Now you, why you could be at high tea. Hey. That's an idea, miss. How about a nice little cup of tea?
How's the book? How about reading it out loud? I could do with a little spiritual comfort myself. And you call yourself a Christian, don't you? Don't you? You're behaving like an infant. And how are you behaving? You're you're just plain mean. Man takes a drop too much once in a while. It's only human nature. Nature, mister Ornat, is what we're putting to this world to rise above. I'm sorry. I apologize for getting so drunk. What more can a man do? Besides, you paid me back. Didn't even leave me a drop. I have a heart, miss. Say something. I don't care what it is, but you gotta say something. So you think it was your nasty drunkenness I minded? Oh, what else? You promised me that you'd go down the river. Miss, miss, listen to me. There's death a thousand times down there. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but don't blame me. Blame the river. You promised I'm taking my promise back.
Alright, miss. You win. As the crocodiles, we'll be glad to hear. Down the river we go. Thank you, mister Olmer. We're making splendid progress, mister Onnett. Look over there. Shona? Not yet, miss. But soon soon over there is a crocodile waiting for his supper. Which side of the river is Shona on? Starboard, miss. Oh, good. Then the sun will be in their eyes. Are you worried, aren't you? Oh, not me, miss. I gave myself up for dead back where we started.
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For that noise, what about that?
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That fort's closer than I thought. They're just letting us know they've sighted us. Their next shot's gonna be closer. Their aim's dreadful, isn't it? Their aim will be good enough unless we turn back. Mister Allnut, I don't want to hear those words today. Yes, miss. Now put your head down. We'll get rifle fired too in a minute. How do we go any faster? I wish you're gonna try, miss. And if it's all the same with you, start praying. We've made it. Look. We've made it. It is a rain. It is a rain. I was sure putting one over on them Germans that time. Didn't we miss? Oh, we showed them, miss. It's a parade. It was my handling of the boat. Oh, better than alright, miss. They were that surprised at seeing the old African queen. They didn't really start shooting till we were paired. Oh, these wonderful old boats.
Well, we're we're full of water, miss. We're battered and we're busted. You see these bullet holes? One's with a steam hose and two in the boiler. But the engine stopped. Long since, miss. But we can drift into them shallows and I'll start pumping. No, no. I'll pump while you go ashore for long. Well, that that would save us time. Thank you, miss. You know, you watch close and I'll I'll show you the picture.
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I've got almost all the water pumped out, mister Olaf.
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Come and look. Just let me see. Set these logs down. Oh, you've worn yourself out, miss. Well, so have you. Well, if it's alright with you, we'd we'd better stay here till morning. Hey. Hey. Where'd they come from? Them flowers. Oh, I I just couldn't resist them.
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I waded ashore and I I picked them. Do you recognize them, mister Ornut? I I've never seen them before. I can't say that I have either, miss. What if no one ever has? What if they don't even have a name?
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Well, name or not, miss. They sure are pretty. Dear, put one in your hair. Catch? Oh, dear.
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Boy, I No. No. I'll get it. No. No. I can pick it up. I, well, well, look at us. Hands and knees and three inches of water looking for a flower. I I could laugh and and and cry and oh, you you kissed me.
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Yes, miss. I sure did, miss.
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You you kissed me. Mister Olmets?
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Mister Allnut? Mister Allnut?
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Dear?
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Oh, oh, hello, Rosie.
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You've been napping. Supplies ready. Rosie.
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Fancy you building a fire and all while I slept.
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Dear, what is your first name?
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Charlie.
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Charlie.
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Give us a kiss, Rosie.
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Charlie. Charlie, dear.
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The more I look at this place, the prettier it gets. I expect it's about the prettiest place I've ever been to. Oh, not that I ain't all for going down the river, I understand. Oh, yes, Charlie. I know. Why, the sooner we blow up the old Louisa, the better. What I meant was I'd like to come back here someday. Then you think we can do it? Do it. But there's nothing the man can't do if he believes in himself. Never say die. That's my motto. I've had mis misgivings, Charlie. I was beginning to think that perhaps the the whole thing was a mistake. How's that, miss?
I mean, Rosie.
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Well, I I had a moment of weakness. Oh, if you're feeling weak, Rosie, where a day or two here, I'm sure, won't make any difference. Oh, no. No. We'll go on and thank heaven for your strength, Charlie. Thank him.
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Well, Rosie, girl, looks like there ain't nothing can stop the old queen. What about the propeller, Charlie? Turning nice as as you please, Rosie. I was going down the river just like, Anthony and Cleopatra in their barge. This couldn't happen, Rosie, if it hadn't been for you. Don't you feel proud of yourself? Certainly not. It's you, Charlie. It's all you. I don't think there's another man alive if we've done what you've done. Oh, I'll never forget the way you looked when we was going over them rapids. Head up, chin out, hair blowing in the wind. The living picture of a heroine.
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Oh, fancy me. A heroine. Oh, Charlie. You've lost your mind.
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Lost my heart too, sweetheart. Oh, what a time we've had, Rosie. What a time. We'll never lack for stories to tell our grandchildren.
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Charlie, how much further do you suppose it is to the lake? Well, there's no telling, Rosie. All depends on how much winding around this old river does. The river's changed, hasn't it? And that smell, I see. It's like marigolds, scale marigolds.
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Not a very good smell for a flower.
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They're they're very pretty though. Marigolds.
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Rosie,
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look. Another bend?
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Oh, only that's all it was. Rosie, it's on all sides. Nothing ahead but grass and papyrus as far as you can see. But the river doesn't stop up there. It can't. Not according to the map, it can't. Only how do you get through that stuff?
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Charlie, they're islands. Thousands of tiny islands. But where's the main channel among them?
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Don't look like there is one, Rosie. Just a sea of grass and a forest of weeds. Well, I I better cut the engine.
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Charlie.
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What are we gonna do, I don't know, Rosie. Get into it and take a look around, I suppose. Yes, dear. Yes. But once we're in, Rosie, and the grass and them reeds close-up in back of us, there'll be no going back. If anything happens, we'll just sit there. We go off our heads with fever. I I know, Johnny. So it pays your money, and it takes your choice. Which is it, sweetheart? Straight ahead or turn around?
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Straight ahead,
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Charlie. We'll continue with act three of the African queen in a few moments. Now it's with great pleasure I introduce our guest, the lovely Zsa Zsa Gabor, who will soon be seen in United Artists' great new Technicolor picture, Moulin Rouge. Hello, Alvin. You know, I've just returned from Paris. That's where the picture was filmed because it's about the famous French painter, Toulouse Lautrec. Yes. And his genius and reckless way he defied convention make one of the screen's most dramatic stories. You know, Jose Ferrer plays the actor,
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plays. And now the new French star, Colette Marchand, plays the woman he loves. And I am Jean Avril, the famous singer and then Saint Toulouse Lautrec's post. It's a spectacular picture, Jia Jia. In Moulin Rouge, producer John Houston
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captures all the flavor of Paris Left Bank and the colorful artist life. Oh, Jaja, you're a knockout in that red and white costume of Lautrec's famous poster. You set it all so perfectly with that creamy complexion of yours. It's a luxe complexion, I know.
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Of course, Ken. I'm devoted to the luxe toilet so patient. And I really appreciate luxe for my bath too, especially after making this picture. My dance number required 93 rehearsals. Was I tired? But my luxe
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The luxury I love is the luxe perfume. It clings so long, yet it's so delicate. Flower
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The curtain rises on act three of the African queen starring Greer Gossen as roles and Humphrey Bogart as Charlie. For days now, the journey of the African queen has been halted. Across the breadth of the river, like a touring living wall, is a jungle of grass and reeds, an endless morass for which a thousand different channels twist and turn. And somewhere among them, Rose and Charlie are hopelessly lost.
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Charlie, please. Let me poll for a while.
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It's no use, Rosie. All the channels we've lost, all the squirming and turning we've done, this river's crazy. Crazy as I am. Oh, Charlie. Sorry, old girl. Well, the only thing that will put the roses back on our cheeks is to get out of these wreaths. I'll go over the side again. You pull, Rosie, and I'll push. Just keep her straight if you can, Rosie. Head her through the grass. Must
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your main channel mustn't it just
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I'm sick of talking about it, Rosie, or searching for it or even Charlie.
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Leeches. Blood second. I have covered some
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Oh, my legs, Rosie. My arms. Oh, the little beggars. Pull them off me. Rosie, help me. Oh, yes. It's shaking. No. No. No. Don't touch them. Don't. Stop, Rosie. Yes. You pull them off at the head, stay there and fight them the blood. Get the salt. Yes. You get them. Pour it over me. Pour the salt over me. I am, Charlie. I am. They can't stand the salt.
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See, Rosie.
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Look. They're they're dropping off. Oh, my poor Charlie. If there's anything in the world I hate, it's leeches. Oh, the filthy little devil. You're bleeding. Hold on. It ain't nothing. The sauce will kill the poison. Well,
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here I go. Charlie, no. You're not going over again. No. No.
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Take the pole, Rosie. We'll try again. Rosie, you still awake, Rosie?
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I'm here, dear.
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I'm awful cold, Rosie. Hot and cold. Chills and fever. Fine fine specimen of the man I am, ain't I? You're the bravest man that ever lived.
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You're just overdue. That's all. Try to sleep, and when you wake up, we'd be on our way again.
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On our way? Even if we had all our strength, we'd never get the boat off this mud.
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We're finished, Rosie. I I know it.
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But I'm I'm not one bit sorry I came. What I mean is it was worth it.
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Dear lord, we've come to the end of our journey. I pray for you to be merciful. Judge Judge us not for our weakness, but for our love, and open the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.
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Rosie. Rosie, it's over, sweetheart. It is. The storm's over. Open your eyes, dear. It's daylight.
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I I wonder if I dreamed it, Johnny. It it was just a a nightmare. I saw animals and and birds running
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and screaming and It's nothing you dreamed, Rosie. I never seen such a storm. Charlie, what are you doing?
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You mustn't work, dear. You're not strong enough yet to Rosie,
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I ain't doing anything. Open your eyes and see. I'm just sitting here next to you. But we're we're moving. Moving? Moving? Rosie, look. Charlie, where are we? Rosie, dear. We're on the lake. Oh, the rain did it until the channels let the rain and the wind just lifted the old queen up and carried her over the flood. We cleared the re the weeds, Rosie, on the back there. Or we couldn't have been a hundred yards from it last night when they gave up hope.
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Oh, Rosie, Rosie. Paul, let's try and be the five. We can. And get the engine started. And go right out to the middle away from these reeds where we can where we can breathe again. Sure, sweetheart. Sure. We'll be out of here in the jiffy. Oh, this air. Oh,
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Charlie's going. I mean, it's just misty as well. You see the lake is bigger than ocean. And we're honored, Rosie. Oh, just to breathe again. Yes. Like right. I know you don't approve, but it's like a shot of gin. Makes your blood race and your spirit soar. Oh, I'm sorry. I caught out all that gin, Charlie. Forget it, Rosie. And just to show you there's no hard feelings, I'll make you another cup of it.
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What what's wrong? Rosie.
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They're at a starboard.
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That's the Imperial German Navy. That's for Louisa. She's coming to us this time. We gotta make a run for it. Back to Louis. Stick around. I'll just talk to Boiler.
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Yesterday, those weeds were our death. And, Charlie, today they're our salvation.
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Oh, I was so sure they'd seen us. Look at the size of a rosy. See your guns? Why did they stop at that little island, Charlie? Unlikely, it's just routine or maybe just checking what the storm tore up. They'll be back again. You know how them Germans are. Lethartickel. Yes. Yeah. That's them alright. They laid down systems and they stick to them. Mondays they're one place, Tuesday some place else, and Wednesday they'll be back here. Oh. Yeah. I know what you're thinking, Rosie. You're thinking of the next time that Louisa comes back here, aren't you, old girl? How long will it take, Charlie, to get the torpedoes ready? Depends on the detonators. Well, I I gotta rig up something.
We'll manage it, Rosie. We'll manage it. Well, there they are, Rosie. Them's the detonators. Oh, Charlie. Oh, wonderful. More. I think they'll work. Now what about the cylinders? With you helping, I'll lash them on each side of our bow. Only we can't set the detonators on until we're ready to set out. You see, they're kinda tricky, Rosie. We'll be working at night, Charlie. Can you do it in the dark? If that's the case, I have to. And you're you're sure they'll come back with the Louisa? Now let me see. Figuring both the speed and the size of this leg, my guess is she she'll be back here tomorrow afternoon. And when she comes, we'll be ready. Tomorrow afternoon. Charlie, let's make the queen as clean as we can. Let's scrub her decks and polish her bra. She ought to look her best, representing as she does the Royal Navy. I think I even got a flag around somewhere. Surely. I will sail out of these reeds proud as a dreadnought.
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Rosie. Yes, Charlie?
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Now there ain't no use of both of us doing it. As you can plainly see, it's, it's a one man job. Oh, you couldn't be more right, Johnny Depp. Rosie, I'm glad you agree. When the time comes, I'll put you off here on the East Shore. You'll wait for me while I attend to the Louisa. Oh, certainly not. You're the one to put ashore. This whole thing was my idea, wasn't it? I'm the logical one to carry it on. Rosie, I'm surprised at you. You're a very sensible woman is the rule. Well, with two torpedoes hanging off her bow, she'll steer entirely different, let alone being half swamped. Didn't I steer a stone rabbit? I suppose she broke down out there. Wouldn't you look foolish? But me, she knows who her boss is. You bet that old engine does. Well, I suppose you're right.
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Now that's settled. Oh, no. No. I only meant it may be necessary for you to come along. Come along? Oh, no. You don't. You'll wait for me on the East Shore. Who do you think you are ordering me about I'm the captain, that's who. And I ain't taking you along. You'd only be in my way. I suppose I was in your way going down the rapids. And what you said to me back there on the river was a lie. How you never could have done it alone. And how how you'd lost your lost your heart and and everything. And are you liar? Oh, Charlie.
Charlie, we're we're having our first quarrel.
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Oh, Rosie.
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It's just that I
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I can't bear the thought of you. Well, supposing that anything should happen, not that anything will. Don't you understand,
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Charlie? I I wouldn't want to go on without you.
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Oh, Rosie. Alright. It'll be you at the tiller and me at the engine just like it was from the start. I knew you'd see it, she is, Rosie. That's the Louisa right on time. There's no smoke from her side. The wind, sweetheart. It's blowing the smoke fast as it comes out. I don't like this wind. Me neither, Rosie. It's gonna storm. But if it storms tonight, there's a chance of them seeing us. Maybe a storm would be a blessing, Charlie. That's the way to look at it, Rosie, old girl. And I'll let you and me get them started on them deck. We're not making any time, Rosie. Something's wrong. I can't see her, Charlie. You're taking too much water in the bow. It's them torpedoes weighing us down. Charlie, no. Those French, Belgian, British?
Yeah. Yes. What? British. What were you doing in these waters? Fishing. Yeah. Fishing off the island. Island. You're a spy for the British. Well, do you deny this? I I told you I was fishing. Obviously, you're lying, but it does not matter. This court will sentence you to behave. Yeah. It's you. There was a woman with you. Rosie. You answered my question. Rosie. Johnny. Who is this woman? I don't know. You called her by name. I thought she was somebody else. Johnny. Who are you? Miss Rose Sales. What were you doing on the lake? I didn't told her nothing, Rose Sales. What were you doing on the lake?
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We were voting.
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As your fellow prisoner is about to learn, the penalty for lying to us is death. Charlie,
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very well then. We came here to Rosie, no. To sink this ship.
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Charlie, dear, at least let's have the pleasure of telling them. How don't you believe her, your honor? She's text, you know, fever. And just how, Fraulein, did you propose to sink Sir Konig Louisa? Why, with torpedoes. Torpedoes.
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Yes. Mister Ornott made them. Made them.
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Amazing.
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Charlie, tell them how you made the torpedoes.
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Earlier, you see what I did was I I took the heads off, two cylinders of oxygen. I filled them up with live explosives, about 200 weight. Now that was easy enough, but it was the detonators took some doing. And you know what I used? Cartridges and nails and blocks of soft wood. Do what? Please. Then I took the two cylinders and hung them them port and starboard in the bow of the African queen. So it's when we rammed you. And where is the African queen? She sank last night in a storm. Too bad. I should like to have seen those torpedoes. Perhaps you will. They'll still be floating around somewhere nearby. Yeah. They could still sink this ship, Rosie. Another torpedo nonsense. You have five minutes in which to reconsider.
Tell us the truth
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or you will both be hanged. We've told the truth, haven't we, Charlie?
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Yeah. We, we got a favor to ask your honor. Well, I'll, you're the captain, I guess. I am. Well, then you could marry us. Oh, Charlie. What a lovely idea. What kind of craziness is this? Come on, captain. It won't even take five minutes, and it'll mean such a lot to the lady. If you wish it. Absolutely. Very well. What are the names again?
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Charles. Rosie. Rose. Charlie, look. A bible.
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Look at me, both of you. Do you, Charles, take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife? Yes, sir. Do you always take this man to be your lawful wedded husband? I do. Then by the authority vested in me by his imperial majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm the second, I pronounce you are a mannered wife. Proceed with the execution.
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Charlie, my husband.
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Rosie. Rosie. You've been following me now at once. You alright, missus Ornette?
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Can you keep swimming? Oh, yes. I never felt so good in my life. We blew it up, Johnny. I guess we did, Rosie. The wreckage of the African queen. That did it. They ran the Louisa right into
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it. How do you feel, mister Ornish? Pretty good for an old married man.
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Yeah. I'm all turned around, Charlie. From which way is the East Shore? The way we're swimming, old girl.
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There was a bold fisherman set sail from off Pimlico to catch the bold piggy
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and the cave at the
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In a moment, our stars will return.
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Now here's mister Cummings with our stars. And here we are coming forward for a well deserved curtain call. Humphrey Bogart and Greer Gott.
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We certainly suffered every step of the way with you two on a trip of the African queen. Irving, I, I remember another safari full of hardships that you and I made, quite a long time ago. A safari, Bogie? What? To Africa? Oh, no. To Palm Springs.
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It was Bogie's first picture in Hollywood and I was the director. We went on location to Palm Springs and it was a 20 in the shade. Only there was no shade. And you should have seen Bogie in his first love scenes.
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I I couldn't see the girl for the water dripping in my eyes.
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But it doesn't sound as if you were having exactly a circus. No. But,
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no. But my latest picture is, just happened to be Battle Circus, co starring June Alice, and I'll get into it. See, I've been,
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I've been working at your home studio, Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Well, I congratulate you, Bogie. You know we make only the very best pictures over there. We mentioned one on the Luxe Radio Theater recently,
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Plymouth Adventure, starring Spencer Tracy, Jean Tierney,
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Van Johnson, and Leo Gedd. I, I don't think Greer would like that. It's all about the pilgrims
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leaving England and sailing for America on the Mayflower. Oh, we English think it's a great idea. We've been doing it ever since.
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We're always glad to welcome our English cousins,
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particularly you lovely actresses with those beautiful complexions. Thank you. We're glad to adopt your way of caring for those complexions.
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We'd like soap. I think it's wonderful. And you'll both think next week's show is wonderful. It's such a story that it's been made into a picture five different times. And we're going to bring you the inspiring twentieth Century Fox version of Victor Hugo's immortal classic, La Miserables. And from the original cast, we have the lovely Deborah Pageant and that fine actor, Robert Newton. And in the unforgettable role of Jean Valjean, another great Academy Award winner, Ronald Coleman.
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Well, that'll be a swell show. Good night, Irving. Good night. Good night. And happy holidays. Now here's Ken Carpenter with news about mouthwash. Ken? Millions of Americans have found that Chlorodent toothpaste does more to give you a clean, fresh mouth than any other dentifrice. And now here is proof that Chlorodent gives you a healthy mouth too. Only in the interest of child health, Chlorodent was tested under the supervision of dentists at father Flanagan's famous boystown in Nebraska. In this research, Chlorodent and a fine white toothpaste were used regularly by different groups of youngsters. And in just sixty days, dentists found that three fourths of the boys using Chlorodent showed dramatic improvement in mouth health.
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Weevil Brothers cover the makers of Luxe toilet soap. Invite you to be with us again next week. And the Luxe Radio Theater presents Ronald Coleman, Deborah Patrick, and Robert Newton. Others are out. It is Irving Cummings saying good night to you from Hollywood.
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Pardon our cast tonight where John Dodsworth as the reverend, of Harold Arnforth, and Hans Conry does the German officers. Our radio play was adapted by S. H. Barnett, and our music was directed by Rudy Schrager.
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Hollywood. Leader Brothers Company, the makers of Luxe violet soap, bring you the Luxe radio theater starring Humphrey Bogart and Greg Olsen in the African Queen. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, mister Irving Cummings.
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Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. When the Academy Award for best performance by an actor was presented last March, a star who had built his reputation with great performances of gangster parts was among those nominated. And Humphrey Bogart won that award with great acclaim in the unusual role of the intemperate skipper of the African queen. And as his costar of this John Houston production, we have beautiful Grier Gossen, another Academy Award winner. Tonight, miss Gossen will vary her popular role of the charming wife to play a straight laced spinster.
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For more than a year, the missionaries have seen only one white man, mister Olna, pilot of the African Queen, a filthy, dilapidated launch at gas subway up and down the river.
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Do we have some more tea, mister Orna? Thanks, miss. I I don't mind if I do. Just listen to this stomach of mine. I mean, the way it keeps growling and squealing the way it sounds, you think I had a high end inside of me.
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You, you do take sugar.
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A queer thing, Edith. Now what do you suppose makes a man's stomach carry on like this? Are you, you're planning to stay overnight, mister O'Connor? Oh, no miss. I I gotta get upriver and back to the mine. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I probably won't be coming around this way for a couple months. But, but but what about our mail? Don't look like there's gonna be any mail for a while on account of the war. War?
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What war? Where?
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Europe, miss. Germany and England. England?
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You really mean war?
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Yeah. That's what to tell me, reverend. But what do you know about it? What's happened? Well, now let's see. Oh, yes. French are in it too and all them, all them little countries, Austria, Hungary, Belgium. I I forget who's with who though. Oh, brother. Yes, Rose.
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I know. This is Germany's Africa. We we are enemy aliens.
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Now what harm could anybody do the Germans in this godforsaken place?
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God has not forsaken this place, mister mister Ornott, as my brother's presence here will bear witness. Oh, no offense, miss. Well, I'll be getting aboard the queen and shoving off.
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Thanks for the tea, miss. Goodbye, mister Ornott. Goodbye, and thank you.
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Oh, that that wretched little man with his foul cigar. Indifference about the war. He's Canadian. Doesn't he realize he's in this too? Shouldn't we try to get to Embazi? I mean, why we can.
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The shepherd does not forsake his flock when the wolves are prowling. We shall stay here, Rose.
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Yes, brother. Yes. Of course. Come, dear. Come.
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We shall pray. Miss, it's me, miss. I come back a lot sooner than I said. Oh, well, the Germans have been here too,
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Yes. They've they've been here, mister Olat.
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When I got to the mines of Lambazi everything was a shamble. Deserted. Burnt to the ground just like the village here. Reverend around miss? My brother
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is dead.
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Oh. Oh, well now now ain't that awful. If some Germans are shooting Reverend, there ain't nobody's face. They were here three days ago.
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They didn't shoot him. They they struck him and his heart was was bad and Oh, that's
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well, that's certainly too bad, miss. That's all I can say. I tell you what, miss. You get your things together, we'll get aboard the queen and clear out. Them Germans are sure to come back. But why? Why should they come back? Why do we look for a boat, miss, for the African queen? She's not much, but they give a lot to get their hands on her. You bet. And what's aboard her too? Blast and gelatin, tin grubs, cylinders of oxygen and hydrogen. Heaps of things I was bringing to the mind. But where could we go? I out there on the river, miss. Get behind an island where it's quiet and safe. We can talk about what to do then. I get ready. That's the ticket, miss. You bet. You come with me.
Well, miss, so far so good. Here we are safe and sound as you might say. A nice shady spot and a nice lonesome spot. The question is what next? Quite, mister Ornan. We got heaps of grub aboard, 2,000 cigarettes, and two cases of gin. Gin? Why, we could sit out to war here if we wanted to. All the comforts at home, miss, including running water.
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Mister Ornat, we simply cannot remain off a backwater island until the war is over. Can't we now, miss?
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Well, you've got the map there. Show me a way out and I'll take it. The British will certainly launch an attack.
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Now, the only question is which way will they come?
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From the sea maybe. Up the railway to Limpopes. Well, that'll put all them Germans between them and us. Might not our troops come up from The Congo. Miss, miss, look. You see this lake on the map? Yes. That's a hundred miles of lake and there ain't nothing gonna cross it while the Louise is there. The Louise? She's a hundred ton steamer, miss, and German. She's boss of the lake because she's got six pounders. The biggest guns in Central Africa. Oh. We're in a bit of a fix, miss, whichever way you look at it. This river runs into that lake, does it not? Yes, miss.
Yes. It does. But if you got any ideas of getting in there in his launch, you better get rid of them. Why? Well, you look at the map, miss. This here is Shona. The Germans are before the Shona. They blow us right out of the water and before that, there's the rapid. 20 miles of water that's like it was coming out of a fire hose. But it has been done. Yes, miss. In a canoe, a fella named Spengler, he almost Mister Ornat,
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what did you say was in those wooden boxes?
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Them? Them's blasting gelatin, miss. Is it dangerous? Bless you. No. That safety stuff takes a detonator to set it off. And what are those long torpedo like things? More stuff for the mind. That's, oxygen and hydrogen cylinders, miss. Mister Ornette, you're a machinist, aren't you? Kind of a fixer, miss Jack of all trades like they say. Could you make a torpedo? How's that, miss?
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Could you make a torpedo?
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A torpedo? Ask me to make a dreadnought and do it upright, miss. A torpedo? You you really don't know what you're asking. Well, there just ain't nothing so complicated as the inside of a torpedo. It's got gyroscopes and compressed air chambers. They're only to make it go, aren't they? Well, we've got the African
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Queen. How's that, miss? And if we were to, to fill those cylinders with that blasting gelatine and then, then fix them so that they'd stick out over the end of this boat and then, then if we were to run this boat against the side of a ship, well, would it go off just like a torpedo would, wouldn't they? Yeah. Yeah. That's right, miss. Well, then we could, we could point the launch towards the ship and, just before she hit, we could dive off, couldn't
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we? Sure. Sure, miss. Absolutely. Only there ain't nothing to torpedo. Oh, but there is. Is what? The Louisa. The Louisa. Oh, now don't talk silly, miss. You can't do that. Honest you can't. I told you before, we can't get down the river. Just stay in your day. In a canoe. If a German did it, we can do. Not in no launch weekend. Well, how do you know? You've never tried. Well, I never tried shooting myself in the head neither. In other words
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in other words, mister Ornat, you're refusing to help your country in her hour of need.
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I wouldn't put it that way. Just how would you put it? Alright, miss. Have it your own way, but don't blame me for what happens. Very well then. Let's get started. Will you mean now? Now. But there ain't two hours of daylight left, miss. We can go a long way in two hours, miss Lorna. But the boiler the fire's gone out practically. We can't move till we get the old kettle boiling again. Well, you're well stocked with firewood.
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Do so.
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Refusing to help your country in an hour of need. Could you make a torpedo, mister Olna? Well, do so, mister Olna. Did you say something, mister Olna? Mean, miss. I I didn't say nothing, miss. Anything wrong, mister Orna? Just this old boiler, miss. She's leaking steam. See? See? Oh.
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Why are you kicking the boiler, mister Olmer? Heat pump's full of rust and scum. She gets clogged up. And that's all you have to do? Just kick it?
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It's knowing how to kick her, miss. She gets peevish now and then ever since I dropped a screwdriver down the safety valve. What would happen if you didn't kick it? A whole boil would blow up. Then why don't you dismantle the safety valve and remove the screw You know, I'm gonna do that one of these days. The only reason I haven't up to now is that I kinda like kicking her. She's all I've got.
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Well, she she seems to be operating quite normally now.
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Yeah. Like I like I said, miss, all she needs is a good boot. Well, you ready to call it a day? It's kind of a kind of like a, lagoon up ahead. It's a real nice place when the bugs ain't too bad. I shan't complain, mister Ornat. We have much to be thankful for. Oh, and that's a fact, miss. It's like they say, it ain't never so bad that it can't be worse. Mister Onlet, do you suppose anyone has seen us? Sir, there ain't nobody in these parts, miss, forgetting the beasts of the forest. Kinda kinda hot, ain't it? I could do with a drink.
I got an extra cup here, miss, if you're gonna have one. Oh, no. No. Thank you. What is it? Gin, miss. Gin. Something wrong? No. Well, if you're worried about there not being enough, why there's, two full cases aboard. Oh, no. No. Please. Well, maybe you'd like a nice cup of tea. Well, thank you. You get real service on the African queen. Queen. Hey. See this? Hot water all the time. I'll just be boiler. It'll taste a little rusty, but then we can't have everything, can't we? Hey, miss. Just to have the tea to suit your taste like to say on the box. Thank you. Don't mention it. Well, you just sit and relax and after a bit, I'll start thinking about supper.
How long you been out here, miss? In Africa?
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Oh, almost ten years.
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You ever get homesick?
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Well, I I'm afraid I have been homesick. Maybe time. It's Sunday afternoon that I think of most. The peace and the quiet of home.
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On Sunday afternoons, I was always sleeping one off.
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Sleeping one oh,
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what brought you to Africa, mister Ornat? The Zambezi Bridge, miss. A whole boatload of us Canucks came over to work on it. Don't know yet what they wanted a bridge for, but then, why did the chicken cross the road? I beg your pardon? Nothing, miss. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes I wish I was back but then I remember how I'd have to be taking orders from somebody while out here. I well, I'm my own boss. Well, drink your tea, miss. I'll I'll go fix you some grunts.
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Now what do you think you're doing, miss? Well, if I may draw some hot water from the boiler, I'll wash these dishes.
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Mostly. I, I just hold them over the side and let the current do the washing. If you will forgive me, that's about what I imagine. Friendliness is next to godliness, miss?
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Is that so amusing, mister Olmer?
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No, miss. You don't see no crocodiles around, do you? Crocodiles? No. It's too shallow for them. Well, I, I could do with a bath before I turn in. I I'd like to bath myself. Well, now you do the dishes back here and I'll go off the bow. So long as we look so long as we don't look, it don't matter. Well, how about it, miss? Well, very well, mister Orloff. That's a ticket. I won't be a minute. Just a slash or two.
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Mister Orlut. Mister Orlut. Right here, miss. How's the water? Oh, no. No. No. Stay just where you are. I what do you I I can't get back into the boat. Well, I'll give you a hand then. I've been trying to climb up, but I can't. I'm afraid I I do need help. Is that blanket still there? Yes, miss. Well, if you will please hold it up in front of you and close your eyes. Well, I just got two hands, miss. And if I hold up the blanket Then then just close your eyes.
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I got them closed, miss. Now here, you grab my arm. Oh, thank you.
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But but don't you dare move until I say so. Oh, no, miss. I I bathed in my undergarments. You'll have to wait until I Oh, it's alright, miss. It's alright.
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You just say when. Well, you feel better, miss? Oh, yes. Yes. I I do. Well, now you better sleep here under the awning, miss, in case it rains. Here's a couple of rugs. There ain't no fleas on them. Where will, where will you sleep, mister Olaf? Me or forward, miss. And if it'll make you feel better, you can hang up one of them tarpaulins like a kind of a curtain sort of. Thank you. Good night. I'll turn out the landing if you're ready, miss. I'm quite ready. Good night, miss. Good night, miss.
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Mister Allnut. Boy,
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I I'm sorry. I woke you, miss. What are you doing? Alright. I ain't doing nothing, miss. Just getting out of the way. Well, go away this instant. Yes, miss.
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Mister Ornat? Yes, miss? You may come in out of the rain if you wish.
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Thank you, miss. Miss? Yes? I'm sorry I gave you such a turn. Oh, that's quite alright.
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I I didn't realize that you were just how hard it was raining.
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I won't get near you, miss. There's heaps of room. Good night, mister Ornot. Good night, miss.
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Before we return with act two of The African Queen, here's Frances Scully, popular Hollywood Commentator. Wasn't it a pleasure, Ken, to meet the famous swimmer Annette Kellerman on your program last week? Oh, yes. Indeed, Frances. She's a remarkable woman. No wonder Metro Goldwyn Mayer filmed her life story and called it million dollar mermaid. Well, the film looks like a million dollars in gorgeous Technicolor with stars like Esther Williams, Walter Pigeon, Victor Mature, and David Brine. Esther Williams certainly does some sensational routines in those beautiful water ballets. Oh, and she looks so glamorous, particularly in the famous one piece bathing suit that shocked Boston in the nineteen twenties.
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Well, I thought it was an exceptionally good love story too, Frances, with both Victor Mature and David Bryan in love with Esther Williams as she becomes the toast of two continents. Yes. And Annette Kellerman, Esther Williams plays an exciting role, filled with glamour and romance in million dollar mermaid. Well, I can't imagine a mermaid more beautiful than Esther Williams. In Technicolor, her complexion looks like a million dollars. And yet, Ken, Esther Williams complexion care is one that every girl can use. It's luxe toilet soap. Like nine out of 10 famous Hollywood Stars, Esther's devoted to luxe soap care. And when all these famous beauties agree on one complexion soap, you know it must do something wonderful for skin. Must really smooth and freshen your complexion. And that's just what Bailey Luxe care does. Its skin tonic action helps your skin retain natural moisture.
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So try these daily luxe soap facials. See how quickly your skin looks lovelier, really luxe lovely. Now here's our producer, mister Cummings.
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Act two of the African queen starring Humphrey Bogart as mister Allnut and Greer Gosselin as Rose. It's the following morning, and the African queen wheezes her way down the river. Mister Arnott is at the rusty engine, administering with tools and frequent kicks of his experienced foot. And now suddenly what he is dreading is upon them. The sluggish river has turned into whirlpool and rapid.
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Hell, miss? How'd you like it? Like it? White water. Rapid. Oh, I never dreamed of it. I don't blame you for being scared, miss. Ain't nobody in his right mind ain't scared of white water. I was about to say that I never dreamed that any mere physical experience
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could be so stimulating. How's that, miss? I seldom known such excitement. A few times in my dear brother's sermon, when his spirit was really upon him, I felt What do you mean you wanna go on? But of course I do. Miss, you're crazy. Oh, I must say I'm filled with admiration for your skills, mister Ornut. Do you suppose that after I practice steering a bit more, that someday I might try? Miss, let me tell you something. Those rapids back there ain't nothing to watch in front of me. Oh, I can hardly wait. Miss. Oh, and now that I'd had a taste of it. I don't wonder that you love boating, mister Olmets. Boating?
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Excuse me, miss. I need a drink.
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Mister Ornat, if, if something's the matter, please, I must know. It's nothing you'd understand. You're you're drinking gin again, mister Ornat. Yes, miss. I sure am. It's been such a pleasant day up until now. What is it that's that's driving you to drink, mister Olmets?
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Alright. I'll tell you. It's all your foolish talk about us going on into the lake, all this crazy talk about the Louise,
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but we ain't gonna go. Well, of course, we are. What an absurd idea. What an absurd idea. What an absurd idea. Why don't you want to go on? Because of the river and the rapids and then Shona. Shona. Oh, yes. Yes. River, Germans have a fort. Yeah. You're darn right, Shona. This one bullet not blasting gelatin missing would be a little bits and pieces. They will go by the fort at night. Oh, no. We won't. They will go by day. We can go on the far side of the river, speeding along just as fast as ever we can. Gonna go speeding along any fight. You agreed to go? I never did. I never agreed to anything.
Mister Ornette, you are a liar. And what is worse than that? A a coward.
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Who? Cowards yourself. You ain't no lady. No, miss. That's what my poor old mother would say to you. My poor old mother was to hear you. Whose boy is this anyway?
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I asked John because I was sorry for you. That's what you get for feeling sorry for people.
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Oh, I ain't sorry for you anymore. You're crazy psalm singing dried up old maid.
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Mister Ornards,
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you are drunk. Not half what I'm gonna be either. There was a bold fisherman that sailed for Bob Pemlico to get some old piggy and the gay back. Oh, oh, miss. Oh, my head.
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Oh, have pity, miss. Mister Ornut, you are still intoxicated.
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Oh, the gin. That gin you're pouring into the river. Indeed it is. Oh, you you don't know what you're doing, miss. I'll perish without a hair in the dark. Look at you reeling about senselessly. My head. Oh, my head. I'm warning you, miss.
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That gin ain't your property. It's no one's property now. 21 empty bottles floating on the wave,
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and I'm glad. A criminal. That's what you are. Oh, I'll die. Then what'll you do? I'll suffer and die, and I'll float on the wave. It's all you're doing here. You did it all.
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Oh, it's you. Good morning.
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I, I look different. I, I shaved. Oh, I see you're reading your Bible. It's a good thing to have a lady aboard, miss. Sets a man a good example. A man alone, well, he gets to live in like a hog. And too with me, it's, always put things off. But with you, miss, it's business before pleasure every time. I, I tell you it's like an inspiration. And that old engine, I ain't got that old engine so clean in years. Just look at her, miss. You don't care? I only had some clean clothes like you. Now you, why you could be at high tea. Hey. That's an idea, miss. How about a nice little cup of tea?
How's the book? How about reading it out loud? I could do with a little spiritual comfort myself. And you call yourself a Christian, don't you? Don't you? You're behaving like an infant. And how are you behaving? You're you're just plain mean. Man takes a drop too much once in a while. It's only human nature. Nature, mister Ornat, is what we're putting to this world to rise above. I'm sorry. I apologize for getting so drunk. What more can a man do? Besides, you paid me back. Didn't even leave me a drop. I have a heart, miss. Say something. I don't care what it is, but you gotta say something. So you think it was your nasty drunkenness I minded? Oh, what else? You promised me that you'd go down the river. Miss, miss, listen to me. There's death a thousand times down there. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but don't blame me. Blame the river. You promised I'm taking my promise back.
Alright, miss. You win. As the crocodiles, we'll be glad to hear. Down the river we go. Thank you, mister Olmer. We're making splendid progress, mister Onnett. Look over there. Shona? Not yet, miss. But soon soon over there is a crocodile waiting for his supper. Which side of the river is Shona on? Starboard, miss. Oh, good. Then the sun will be in their eyes. Are you worried, aren't you? Oh, not me, miss. I gave myself up for dead back where we started.
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For that noise, what about that?
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That fort's closer than I thought. They're just letting us know they've sighted us. Their next shot's gonna be closer. Their aim's dreadful, isn't it? Their aim will be good enough unless we turn back. Mister Allnut, I don't want to hear those words today. Yes, miss. Now put your head down. We'll get rifle fired too in a minute. How do we go any faster? I wish you're gonna try, miss. And if it's all the same with you, start praying. We've made it. Look. We've made it. It is a rain. It is a rain. I was sure putting one over on them Germans that time. Didn't we miss? Oh, we showed them, miss. It's a parade. It was my handling of the boat. Oh, better than alright, miss. They were that surprised at seeing the old African queen. They didn't really start shooting till we were paired. Oh, these wonderful old boats.
Well, we're we're full of water, miss. We're battered and we're busted. You see these bullet holes? One's with a steam hose and two in the boiler. But the engine stopped. Long since, miss. But we can drift into them shallows and I'll start pumping. No, no. I'll pump while you go ashore for long. Well, that that would save us time. Thank you, miss. You know, you watch close and I'll I'll show you the picture.
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I've got almost all the water pumped out, mister Olaf.
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Come and look. Just let me see. Set these logs down. Oh, you've worn yourself out, miss. Well, so have you. Well, if it's alright with you, we'd we'd better stay here till morning. Hey. Hey. Where'd they come from? Them flowers. Oh, I I just couldn't resist them.
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I waded ashore and I I picked them. Do you recognize them, mister Ornut? I I've never seen them before. I can't say that I have either, miss. What if no one ever has? What if they don't even have a name?
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Well, name or not, miss. They sure are pretty. Dear, put one in your hair. Catch? Oh, dear.
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Boy, I No. No. I'll get it. No. No. I can pick it up. I, well, well, look at us. Hands and knees and three inches of water looking for a flower. I I could laugh and and and cry and oh, you you kissed me.
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Yes, miss. I sure did, miss.
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You you kissed me. Mister Olmets?
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Mister Allnut? Mister Allnut?
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Dear?
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Oh, oh, hello, Rosie.
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You've been napping. Supplies ready. Rosie.
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Fancy you building a fire and all while I slept.
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Dear, what is your first name?
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Charlie.
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Charlie.
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Give us a kiss, Rosie.
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Charlie. Charlie, dear.
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The more I look at this place, the prettier it gets. I expect it's about the prettiest place I've ever been to. Oh, not that I ain't all for going down the river, I understand. Oh, yes, Charlie. I know. Why, the sooner we blow up the old Louisa, the better. What I meant was I'd like to come back here someday. Then you think we can do it? Do it. But there's nothing the man can't do if he believes in himself. Never say die. That's my motto. I've had mis misgivings, Charlie. I was beginning to think that perhaps the the whole thing was a mistake. How's that, miss?
I mean, Rosie.
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Well, I I had a moment of weakness. Oh, if you're feeling weak, Rosie, where a day or two here, I'm sure, won't make any difference. Oh, no. No. We'll go on and thank heaven for your strength, Charlie. Thank him.
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Well, Rosie, girl, looks like there ain't nothing can stop the old queen. What about the propeller, Charlie? Turning nice as as you please, Rosie. I was going down the river just like, Anthony and Cleopatra in their barge. This couldn't happen, Rosie, if it hadn't been for you. Don't you feel proud of yourself? Certainly not. It's you, Charlie. It's all you. I don't think there's another man alive if we've done what you've done. Oh, I'll never forget the way you looked when we was going over them rapids. Head up, chin out, hair blowing in the wind. The living picture of a heroine.
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Oh, fancy me. A heroine. Oh, Charlie. You've lost your mind.
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Lost my heart too, sweetheart. Oh, what a time we've had, Rosie. What a time. We'll never lack for stories to tell our grandchildren.
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Charlie, how much further do you suppose it is to the lake? Well, there's no telling, Rosie. All depends on how much winding around this old river does. The river's changed, hasn't it? And that smell, I see. It's like marigolds, scale marigolds.
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Not a very good smell for a flower.
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They're they're very pretty though. Marigolds.
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Rosie,
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look. Another bend?
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Oh, only that's all it was. Rosie, it's on all sides. Nothing ahead but grass and papyrus as far as you can see. But the river doesn't stop up there. It can't. Not according to the map, it can't. Only how do you get through that stuff?
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Charlie, they're islands. Thousands of tiny islands. But where's the main channel among them?
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Don't look like there is one, Rosie. Just a sea of grass and a forest of weeds. Well, I I better cut the engine.
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Charlie.
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What are we gonna do, I don't know, Rosie. Get into it and take a look around, I suppose. Yes, dear. Yes. But once we're in, Rosie, and the grass and them reeds close-up in back of us, there'll be no going back. If anything happens, we'll just sit there. We go off our heads with fever. I I know, Johnny. So it pays your money, and it takes your choice. Which is it, sweetheart? Straight ahead or turn around?
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Straight ahead,
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Charlie. We'll continue with act three of the African queen in a few moments. Now it's with great pleasure I introduce our guest, the lovely Zsa Zsa Gabor, who will soon be seen in United Artists' great new Technicolor picture, Moulin Rouge. Hello, Alvin. You know, I've just returned from Paris. That's where the picture was filmed because it's about the famous French painter, Toulouse Lautrec. Yes. And his genius and reckless way he defied convention make one of the screen's most dramatic stories. You know, Jose Ferrer plays the actor,
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plays. And now the new French star, Colette Marchand, plays the woman he loves. And I am Jean Avril, the famous singer and then Saint Toulouse Lautrec's post. It's a spectacular picture, Jia Jia. In Moulin Rouge, producer John Houston
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captures all the flavor of Paris Left Bank and the colorful artist life. Oh, Jaja, you're a knockout in that red and white costume of Lautrec's famous poster. You set it all so perfectly with that creamy complexion of yours. It's a luxe complexion, I know.
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Of course, Ken. I'm devoted to the luxe toilet so patient. And I really appreciate luxe for my bath too, especially after making this picture. My dance number required 93 rehearsals. Was I tired? But my luxe
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bath completely refreshes. Yes. A bath with creamy white luxe soap is the quickest beauty pickup ever. It treats you to so many luxuries in one. First, there's the rich abundant lather luxe gives even in hard water. Second, there's that delightful mildness of luxe, the way its gentle lather leaves your skin so soft.
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The luxury I love is the luxe perfume. It clings so long, yet it's so delicate. Flower
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Thank you, Xiaoxia. Girls, try the big bath size luxe toilet soap. Do it tomorrow. Be luxe lovely for the holidays ahead. We pause now for station identification. This is the CBS Radio Network. WCBS AM and FM, New York.
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The curtain rises on act three of the African queen starring Greer Gossen as roles and Humphrey Bogart as Charlie. For days now, the journey of the African queen has been halted. Across the breadth of the river, like a touring living wall, is a jungle of grass and reeds, an endless morass for which a thousand different channels twist and turn. And somewhere among them, Rose and Charlie are hopelessly lost.
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Charlie, please. Let me poll for a while.
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It's no use, Rosie. All the channels we've lost, all the squirming and turning we've done, this river's crazy. Crazy as I am. Oh, Charlie. Sorry, old girl. Well, the only thing that will put the roses back on our cheeks is to get out of these wreaths. I'll go over the side again. You pull, Rosie, and I'll push. Just keep her straight if you can, Rosie. Head her through the grass. Must
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your main channel mustn't it just
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I'm sick of talking about it, Rosie, or searching for it or even Charlie.
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Leeches. Blood second. I have covered some
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Oh, my legs, Rosie. My arms. Oh, the little beggars. Pull them off me. Rosie, help me. Oh, yes. It's shaking. No. No. No. Don't touch them. Don't. Stop, Rosie. Yes. You pull them off at the head, stay there and fight them the blood. Get the salt. Yes. You get them. Pour it over me. Pour the salt over me. I am, Charlie. I am. They can't stand the salt.
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See, Rosie.
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Look. They're they're dropping off. Oh, my poor Charlie. If there's anything in the world I hate, it's leeches. Oh, the filthy little devil. You're bleeding. Hold on. It ain't nothing. The sauce will kill the poison. Well,
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here I go. Charlie, no. You're not going over again. No. No.
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Take the pole, Rosie. We'll try again. Rosie, you still awake, Rosie?
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I'm here, dear.
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I'm awful cold, Rosie. Hot and cold. Chills and fever. Fine fine specimen of the man I am, ain't I? You're the bravest man that ever lived.
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You're just overdue. That's all. Try to sleep, and when you wake up, we'd be on our way again.
[00:38:42] Unknown:
On our way? Even if we had all our strength, we'd never get the boat off this mud.
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We're finished, Rosie. I I know it.
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But I'm I'm not one bit sorry I came. What I mean is it was worth it.
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Dear lord, we've come to the end of our journey. I pray for you to be merciful. Judge Judge us not for our weakness, but for our love, and open the doors of heaven for Charlie and me.
[00:40:00] Unknown:
Rosie. Rosie, it's over, sweetheart. It is. The storm's over. Open your eyes, dear. It's daylight.
[00:40:07] Unknown:
I I wonder if I dreamed it, Johnny. It it was just a a nightmare. I saw animals and and birds running
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and screaming and It's nothing you dreamed, Rosie. I never seen such a storm. Charlie, what are you doing?
[00:40:24] Unknown:
You mustn't work, dear. You're not strong enough yet to Rosie,
[00:40:28] Unknown:
I ain't doing anything. Open your eyes and see. I'm just sitting here next to you. But we're we're moving. Moving? Moving? Rosie, look. Charlie, where are we? Rosie, dear. We're on the lake. Oh, the rain did it until the channels let the rain and the wind just lifted the old queen up and carried her over the flood. We cleared the re the weeds, Rosie, on the back there. Or we couldn't have been a hundred yards from it last night when they gave up hope.
[00:40:56] Unknown:
Oh, Rosie, Rosie. Paul, let's try and be the five. We can. And get the engine started. And go right out to the middle away from these reeds where we can where we can breathe again. Sure, sweetheart. Sure. We'll be out of here in the jiffy. Oh, this air. Oh,
[00:41:20] Unknown:
Charlie's going. I mean, it's just misty as well. You see the lake is bigger than ocean. And we're honored, Rosie. Oh, just to breathe again. Yes. Like right. I know you don't approve, but it's like a shot of gin. Makes your blood race and your spirit soar. Oh, I'm sorry. I caught out all that gin, Charlie. Forget it, Rosie. And just to show you there's no hard feelings, I'll make you another cup of it.
[00:41:45] Unknown:
What what's wrong? Rosie.
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They're at a starboard.
[00:41:49] Unknown:
That's the Imperial German Navy. That's for Louisa. She's coming to us this time. We gotta make a run for it. Back to Louis. Stick around. I'll just talk to Boiler.
[00:42:03] Unknown:
Yesterday, those weeds were our death. And, Charlie, today they're our salvation.
[00:42:08] Unknown:
Oh, I was so sure they'd seen us. Look at the size of a rosy. See your guns? Why did they stop at that little island, Charlie? Unlikely, it's just routine or maybe just checking what the storm tore up. They'll be back again. You know how them Germans are. Lethartickel. Yes. Yeah. That's them alright. They laid down systems and they stick to them. Mondays they're one place, Tuesday some place else, and Wednesday they'll be back here. Oh. Yeah. I know what you're thinking, Rosie. You're thinking of the next time that Louisa comes back here, aren't you, old girl? How long will it take, Charlie, to get the torpedoes ready? Depends on the detonators. Well, I I gotta rig up something.
We'll manage it, Rosie. We'll manage it. Well, there they are, Rosie. Them's the detonators. Oh, Charlie. Oh, wonderful. More. I think they'll work. Now what about the cylinders? With you helping, I'll lash them on each side of our bow. Only we can't set the detonators on until we're ready to set out. You see, they're kinda tricky, Rosie. We'll be working at night, Charlie. Can you do it in the dark? If that's the case, I have to. And you're you're sure they'll come back with the Louisa? Now let me see. Figuring both the speed and the size of this leg, my guess is she she'll be back here tomorrow afternoon. And when she comes, we'll be ready. Tomorrow afternoon. Charlie, let's make the queen as clean as we can. Let's scrub her decks and polish her bra. She ought to look her best, representing as she does the Royal Navy. I think I even got a flag around somewhere. Surely. I will sail out of these reeds proud as a dreadnought.
[00:43:41] Unknown:
Rosie. Yes, Charlie?
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Now there ain't no use of both of us doing it. As you can plainly see, it's, it's a one man job. Oh, you couldn't be more right, Johnny Depp. Rosie, I'm glad you agree. When the time comes, I'll put you off here on the East Shore. You'll wait for me while I attend to the Louisa. Oh, certainly not. You're the one to put ashore. This whole thing was my idea, wasn't it? I'm the logical one to carry it on. Rosie, I'm surprised at you. You're a very sensible woman is the rule. Well, with two torpedoes hanging off her bow, she'll steer entirely different, let alone being half swamped. Didn't I steer a stone rabbit? I suppose she broke down out there. Wouldn't you look foolish? But me, she knows who her boss is. You bet that old engine does. Well, I suppose you're right.
[00:44:22] Unknown:
Now that's settled. Oh, no. No. I only meant it may be necessary for you to come along. Come along? Oh, no. You don't. You'll wait for me on the East Shore. Who do you think you are ordering me about I'm the captain, that's who. And I ain't taking you along. You'd only be in my way. I suppose I was in your way going down the rapids. And what you said to me back there on the river was a lie. How you never could have done it alone. And how how you'd lost your lost your heart and and everything. And are you liar? Oh, Charlie.
Charlie, we're we're having our first quarrel.
[00:44:57] Unknown:
Oh, Rosie.
[00:44:58] Unknown:
It's just that I
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I can't bear the thought of you. Well, supposing that anything should happen, not that anything will. Don't you understand,
[00:45:06] Unknown:
Charlie? I I wouldn't want to go on without you.
[00:45:12] Unknown:
Oh, Rosie. Alright. It'll be you at the tiller and me at the engine just like it was from the start. I knew you'd see it, she is, Rosie. That's the Louisa right on time. There's no smoke from her side. The wind, sweetheart. It's blowing the smoke fast as it comes out. I don't like this wind. Me neither, Rosie. It's gonna storm. But if it storms tonight, there's a chance of them seeing us. Maybe a storm would be a blessing, Charlie. That's the way to look at it, Rosie, old girl. And I'll let you and me get them started on them deck. We're not making any time, Rosie. Something's wrong. I can't see her, Charlie. You're taking too much water in the bow. It's them torpedoes weighing us down. Charlie, no. Those French, Belgian, British?
Yeah. Yes. What? British. What were you doing in these waters? Fishing. Yeah. Fishing off the island. Island. You're a spy for the British. Well, do you deny this? I I told you I was fishing. Obviously, you're lying, but it does not matter. This court will sentence you to behave. Yeah. It's you. There was a woman with you. Rosie. You answered my question. Rosie. Johnny. Who is this woman? I don't know. You called her by name. I thought she was somebody else. Johnny. Who are you? Miss Rose Sales. What were you doing on the lake? I didn't told her nothing, Rose Sales. What were you doing on the lake?
[00:47:43] Unknown:
We were voting.
[00:47:46] Unknown:
As your fellow prisoner is about to learn, the penalty for lying to us is death. Charlie,
[00:47:53] Unknown:
very well then. We came here to Rosie, no. To sink this ship.
[00:47:59] Unknown:
Charlie, dear, at least let's have the pleasure of telling them. How don't you believe her, your honor? She's text, you know, fever. And just how, Fraulein, did you propose to sink Sir Konig Louisa? Why, with torpedoes. Torpedoes.
[00:48:13] Unknown:
Yes. Mister Ornott made them. Made them.
[00:48:17] Unknown:
Amazing.
[00:48:18] Unknown:
Charlie, tell them how you made the torpedoes.
[00:48:22] Unknown:
Earlier, you see what I did was I I took the heads off, two cylinders of oxygen. I filled them up with live explosives, about 200 weight. Now that was easy enough, but it was the detonators took some doing. And you know what I used? Cartridges and nails and blocks of soft wood. Do what? Please. Then I took the two cylinders and hung them them port and starboard in the bow of the African queen. So it's when we rammed you. And where is the African queen? She sank last night in a storm. Too bad. I should like to have seen those torpedoes. Perhaps you will. They'll still be floating around somewhere nearby. Yeah. They could still sink this ship, Rosie. Another torpedo nonsense. You have five minutes in which to reconsider.
Tell us the truth
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or you will both be hanged. We've told the truth, haven't we, Charlie?
[00:49:15] Unknown:
Yeah. We, we got a favor to ask your honor. Well, I'll, you're the captain, I guess. I am. Well, then you could marry us. Oh, Charlie. What a lovely idea. What kind of craziness is this? Come on, captain. It won't even take five minutes, and it'll mean such a lot to the lady. If you wish it. Absolutely. Very well. What are the names again?
[00:49:41] Unknown:
Charles. Rosie. Rose. Charlie, look. A bible.
[00:49:52] Unknown:
Look at me, both of you. Do you, Charles, take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife? Yes, sir. Do you always take this man to be your lawful wedded husband? I do. Then by the authority vested in me by his imperial majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm the second, I pronounce you are a mannered wife. Proceed with the execution.
[00:50:16] Unknown:
Charlie, my husband.
[00:50:19] Unknown:
Rosie. Rosie. You've been following me now at once. You alright, missus Ornette?
[00:50:48] Unknown:
Can you keep swimming? Oh, yes. I never felt so good in my life. We blew it up, Johnny. I guess we did, Rosie. The wreckage of the African queen. That did it. They ran the Louisa right into
[00:51:02] Unknown:
it. How do you feel, mister Ornish? Pretty good for an old married man.
[00:51:07] Unknown:
Yeah. I'm all turned around, Charlie. From which way is the East Shore? The way we're swimming, old girl.
[00:51:14] Unknown:
There was a bold fisherman set sail from off Pimlico to catch the bold piggy
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and the cave at the
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In a moment, our stars will return.
[00:51:40] Unknown:
Are you blaming stocking runs on the stockings themselves? Well, perhaps you're making a big mistake. Yes. Look. The blame may belong to the way you wash stockings.
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Now here's mister Cummings with our stars. And here we are coming forward for a well deserved curtain call. Humphrey Bogart and Greer Gott.
[00:52:51] Unknown:
We certainly suffered every step of the way with you two on a trip of the African queen. Irving, I, I remember another safari full of hardships that you and I made, quite a long time ago. A safari, Bogie? What? To Africa? Oh, no. To Palm Springs.
[00:53:05] Unknown:
It was Bogie's first picture in Hollywood and I was the director. We went on location to Palm Springs and it was a 20 in the shade. Only there was no shade. And you should have seen Bogie in his first love scenes.
[00:53:18] Unknown:
I I couldn't see the girl for the water dripping in my eyes.
[00:53:22] Unknown:
But it doesn't sound as if you were having exactly a circus. No. But,
[00:53:26] Unknown:
no. But my latest picture is, just happened to be Battle Circus, co starring June Alice, and I'll get into it. See, I've been,
[00:53:33] Unknown:
I've been working at your home studio, Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Well, I congratulate you, Bogie. You know we make only the very best pictures over there. We mentioned one on the Luxe Radio Theater recently,
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Plymouth Adventure, starring Spencer Tracy, Jean Tierney,
[00:53:47] Unknown:
Van Johnson, and Leo Gedd. I, I don't think Greer would like that. It's all about the pilgrims
[00:53:53] Unknown:
leaving England and sailing for America on the Mayflower. Oh, we English think it's a great idea. We've been doing it ever since.
[00:54:00] Unknown:
We're always glad to welcome our English cousins,
[00:54:03] Unknown:
particularly you lovely actresses with those beautiful complexions. Thank you. We're glad to adopt your way of caring for those complexions.
[00:54:09] Unknown:
We'd like soap. I think it's wonderful. And you'll both think next week's show is wonderful. It's such a story that it's been made into a picture five different times. And we're going to bring you the inspiring twentieth Century Fox version of Victor Hugo's immortal classic, La Miserables. And from the original cast, we have the lovely Deborah Pageant and that fine actor, Robert Newton. And in the unforgettable role of Jean Valjean, another great Academy Award winner, Ronald Coleman.
[00:54:40] Unknown:
Well, that'll be a swell show. Good night, Irving. Good night. Good night. And happy holidays. Now here's Ken Carpenter with news about mouthwash. Ken? Millions of Americans have found that Chlorodent toothpaste does more to give you a clean, fresh mouth than any other dentifrice. And now here is proof that Chlorodent gives you a healthy mouth too. Only in the interest of child health, Chlorodent was tested under the supervision of dentists at father Flanagan's famous boystown in Nebraska. In this research, Chlorodent and a fine white toothpaste were used regularly by different groups of youngsters. And in just sixty days, dentists found that three fourths of the boys using Chlorodent showed dramatic improvement in mouth health.
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[00:55:56] Unknown:
Weevil Brothers cover the makers of Luxe toilet soap. Invite you to be with us again next week. And the Luxe Radio Theater presents Ronald Coleman, Deborah Patrick, and Robert Newton. Others are out. It is Irving Cummings saying good night to you from Hollywood.
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Pardon our cast tonight where John Dodsworth as the reverend, of Harold Arnforth, and Hans Conry does the German officers. Our radio play was adapted by S. H. Barnett, and our music was directed by Rudy Schrager.
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[00:57:53] Unknown:
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Introduction to Luxe Radio Theater
The African Queen Begins
A Plan to Torpedo the Louisa
Navigating the Rapids
A Change in Relationship
Lost in the Reeds
A Storm and a New Hope
The Final Plan and Execution
The Aftermath and Conclusion
