1914. Samuel Sawyer en zijn zuster Rose leiden een kerk in Oost-Afrika. Tijdens een inval van de Duitsers worden de inboorlingen uit hun huizen verjaagd en komt Samuel om het leven. Rose vlucht met Charlie Allnutt, een avonturier en dronkaard, op diens boot de 'African Queen'.
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| Camera | Jack Cardiff | Director of Photography |
| Crew | Cliff Richardson | Special Effects |
| Directing | John Huston | Director |
| Editing | Ralph Kemplen | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Doris Langley Moore | Costume Design |
| Production | Sam Spiegel | Producer |
| Art | Wilfred Shingleton | Art Direction |
| Production | John Woolf | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Connie De Pinna | Costume Design |
| Writing | James Agee | Screenplay |
| Writing | John Huston | Screenplay |
| Sound | Norman del Mar | Conductor |
| Sound | Kevin McClory | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Allan Gray | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | John W. Mitchell | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Eric Wood | Sound Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | George Frost | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Bill Herlihy | Third Assistant Director |
| Camera | Desmond Davis | Clapper Loader |
| Writing | C. S. Forester | Novel |
| Camera | Edward Scaife | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Eileen Bates | Hairstylist |
| Production | T.S. Lyndon-Haynes | Production Manager |
| Production | Leigh Aman | Production Manager |
| Camera | Ted Moore | Camera Operator |
| Art | John Hoesli | Assistant Art Director |
| Directing | Guy Hamilton | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Angela Allen | Continuity |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vi Murray | Wardrobe Master |
