Ask any film buff to identify the title of a movie in which a macho boat captain is hired by a prim, educated woman to take her to a remote destination up perilous river on run-down steamboat and the answer that’s likely to be given is “The African Queen”, the 1951 classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
Disney’s upcoming “Jungle Cruise” shares a similar storyline, with “intrepid researcher Dr. Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt)” enlisting the “questionable services” of “wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff” to “guide her downriver on La Quila — his ramshackle-but-charming boat.” In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bogart’s son, Stephen Bogart, addresses the similarities between the two movies, particularly given that “The
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