Quicksand Fans

Hi...here's another moldy oldie that, if I posted it before, hasn't been around for several years (it also got pulled off of my Deviant Art page many moons ago; I guess it was too deviant, go figure...)
...Of course, it's not really a scene from "The African Queen"...but it should be...

Very nice, Pete.

Somehow, your drawings (attitude included) never get old.

Keep truckin'

If I recall correctly, the "African Queen" was a ship and was destroyed during the movie. While that sort of eliminates the possibility of a sequel, at least without a new ship, it still leaves the possibility of a prequel. Further, if we decide to have a little more creativity that the usual sequel/prequel screenwriter, there ought to be room for at least one and possibly more stories or screenplays making use of the ship's name and involving one of similar design. Such a story need not have the Hepburn or Bogart character at all I'd bet that if people here wanted to do it they could come up with half a dozen, at least, plots.

As a suggestion, I understand that some twenty years before World War I, there was an attempt to use the African Queen to transport about a dozen women prisoners to a jungle prison (giving rise to the expression "going up the river" but they all escaped when it ran aground deep in the jungle.

Also, I think I read somewhere that after the war the boat was brought to the surface and restored (albeit with a similarly unreliable two cylinder engine). Then at the end of World War Two it was used by a group of Nazi women spies in an attempt to hide from justice. The boat was later found with no one aboard none of the spies was ever heard from again.

After that it was taken to Florida for use as a tourist attraction but one time it disappeared for about a month about the same time as three women suspected of having stolen a bunch of diamonds were allowed to escape from jail in the hope they could be followed to where the gems were stashed.

Ok, there are three story ideas from me, banged out in ten minutes. How many other ideas can we come up with.

pete1672 wrote:Hi...here's another moldy oldie that, if I posted it before, hasn't been around for several years (it also got pulled off of my Deviant Art page many moons ago; I guess it was too deviant, go figure...)
...Of course, it's not really a scene from "The African Queen"...but it should be...

Fantastic work Pete! I'd never saw this one before. Great find!

the African Queen was a tiny little river steemer about 15 or 20 feet long and tiny little propeller. It seemed to be used to carry supplies for a very small number of people in the area. the two lead characaters in the movie used it to get away from German troops and the natives they forced into the army, and when they got to a lake they plotted to sink the German gun boat on that lake. the Queen did get blown up as it torpedod the German ship. Charlie was very ingenous in creating torpedos and putting them in holes in the hull.

always glad to see you post, even if it's something you may have posted before!

in that spirit, i wonder if you have that scene of Jungle Janet sinking in a cage someplace?

Apparently the boat itself still exists and can be booked for cruises. See:

http://africanqueenflkeys.com/

cbqdbq wrote:the African Queen was a tiny little river steemer about 15 or 20 feet long and tiny little propeller. It seemed to be used to carry supplies for a very small number of people in the area. the two lead characaters in the movie used it to get away from German troops and the natives they forced into the army, and when they got to a lake they plotted to sink the German gun boat on that lake. the Queen did get blown up as it torpedod the German ship. Charlie was very ingenous in creating torpedos and putting them in holes in the hull.

No need for cereal. Or before.

Pete is correct. This is the real movie. I saw it.

Nice boner as well.

BH

cbqdbq wrote:the African Queen was a tiny little river steemer about 15 or 20 feet long and tiny little propeller. It seemed to be used to carry supplies for a very small number of people in the area. the two lead characaters in the movie used it to get away from German troops and the natives they forced into the army, and when they got to a lake they plotted to sink the German gun boat on that lake. the Queen did get blown up as it torpedod the German ship. Charlie was very ingenous in creating torpedos and putting them in holes in the hull.

I love the line "I now pronounce you man and wife. Carry out the execution!" BOOM!

Boggyhoo wrote:
Nice boner as well.

It is a great tribute to Pete's attention to detail, composition and his effective, complex rendering of characters and intriguing scene details that I did not notice the boner right away. I did notice it after looking at it awhile, but in the hands of lesser artists, such things don't come out nearly so well.

Nessie