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 |
| Art | Wilfred Shingleton | Art Direction |
| Crew | Cliff Richardson | Special Effects |
| Costume & Make-Up | Connie De Pinna | Costume Design |
| Editing | Ralph Kemplen | Editor |
| Directing | John Huston | Director |
| Production | Sam Spiegel | Producer |
| Production | John Woolf | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Doris Langley Moore | Costume Design |
| Sound | Allan Gray | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Kevin McClory | Boom Operator |
| Sound | John W. Mitchell | Sound Recordist |
| Costume & Make-Up | George Frost | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Eric Wood | Sound Editor |
| Directing | Bill Herlihy | Third Assistant Director |
| Camera | Desmond Davis | Clapper Loader |
| Writing | C. S. Forester | Novel |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vi Murray | Wardrobe Master |
| Camera | Ted Moore | Camera Operator |
| Production | Leigh Aman | Production Manager |
| Directing | Angela Allen | Continuity |
| Production | T.S. Lyndon-Haynes | Production Manager |
| Costume & Make-Up | Eileen Bates | Hairstylist |
| Directing | Guy Hamilton | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Edward Scaife | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Art | John Hoesli | Assistant Art Director |
| Writing | James Agee | Screenplay |
| Writing | John Huston | Screenplay |
| Sound | Norman del Mar | Conductor |
