Glasgow Film Festival 2011: Angela Allen on The African Queen

Angela Allen was the youngest continuity girl working in England when she was chosen by the legendary Hollywood producer, Sam Spiegel, to go to Africa to work with John Huston on The African Queen.

At the Glasgow Film Festival to introduce a new print of The African Queen, due to be released in UK cinemas on 4 March, Ms Allen here recalls how she came to work on the production.

She told Festival vlogger Jonathan Melville about working conditions in the Belgian Congo and her memories of Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, as well as her thoughts on the film today.

By Festival vlogger Jonathan Melville

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