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The African Queen/On Golden Pond/The Iron Petticoat

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Number of Discs
1

Release Date
20/10/2003

Studio
ITV DVD

format
DVD / Box Set

Duration
294

Certificate UK
PG

Description

A box set of Katharine Hepburn films spanning 3 decades. In 'The African Queen' (1951) Hepburn plays a prim missionary (Hepburn) forced to team up with Canadian river trader Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) when her village is destroyed during WWI. The pair take an immediate dislike to one another with moralistic Rose unimpressed with Charlie's uncouth ways and his fondness for alcohol. As the Germans approach they flee down the Congo aboard Charlie's battered ship, The African Queen. Their initial misgivings about one another turns to mutual respect and following further difficulties with the boat the pair find themselves falling in love, however, the Germans continue to pursue them.

a gin-swilling river trader (Humphrey Bogart) when her village is destroyed during the Great War. They flee from the Germans down the Congo, aboard the trader's battered ship, 'The African Queen'. Bogart won an Oscar for his portrayal of the gruff, cynical sailor. In 'The Iron Petticoat' (1956),

when a Russian Mig strays into US air space, airforce captain Chuck Lockwood (Bob Hope) is given the task of forcing it down and apprehending its pilot. He is surprised to find that his quarry is a woman, Captain Kovelenko (Hepburn), who has chosen to defect on the grounds that as a woman she is discriminated against in her homeland. As the pair debate the values of capitalism against communism, love begins to cut across the political divide, but the romance is put on hold when a disgruntled KGB makes moves to apprehend the defector. Whilst in 'On Golden Pond' (1981), for forty eight years, Professor Norman Thayer Jr (Henry Fonda, in his last film performance) and his wife Ethel (Hepburn) have holidayed at their New England cottage on Golden Pond. This time round they have an extra guest - Billy Ray (Doug McKeon), the son of their daughter Chelsea's (Jane Fonda) boyfriend, Bill. The generation gap is soon highlighted, with Norman and Billy clashing frequently and fiercely. However, as the summer progresses Norman begins to forge the kind of close relationship with the boy that he has always denied Chelsea, and comes to realize how much happiness he has missed out on with his own daughter. Fonda and Hepburn won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress.

Director: John Huston
Director: Mark Rydell
Director: Ralph Thomas
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Producer: Betty E. Box
Producer: Bruce Gilbert
Writer: James Agee
Writer: Ben Hecht
Producer: Lew Grade
Writer: John Huston
Music: Benjamin Frankel
Writer: Ernest Thompson
Music: Allan Gray
Music: Dave Grusin
Cinematographer: Jack Cardiff
Actor: Katharine Hepburn
Actor: Humphrey Bogart
Actor: Robert Morley
Actor: Peter Bull
Actor: Henry Fonda
Actor: Jane Fonda
Actor: Doug McKeon
Actor: Dabney Coleman
Actor: William Lanteau
Actor: Bob Hope
Actor: James Robertson Justice
Actor: Noelle Middleton
Actor: Robert Helpmann
Actor: David Kossoff
Actor: Alan Gifford
Actor: Paul Carpenter
Actor: Theodore Bikel
Actor: Christopher Rydell
Actor: Tutte Lemkow
Actor: Peter Swanwick
Actor: Richard Wattis
Actor: Richard Marner
Actor: Olaf Pooley
Actor: Sid James
Actor: Walter Gotell

Main Format
DVD

Keyword Index
The African Queen/On Golden Pond/The Iron Petticoat|Katharine Hepburn

Colour
Colour

Catalogue Number
3711505653

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