hulk of the Liberian tanker African Queen as she lay stranded and shoal-torn ten miles off Ocean City, Md. It was March, and the sea pounded against the rusting hull of the ship, which had run ...

And the rulers of the jungle are predatory and fascinating and tough." Huston (whose The African Queen is being screened in a restored version in Cannes) was intrigued by the utter ruthlessness of ...