The African Queen (film) Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), whose coarse behavior they tolerate in a rather stiff manner. When Charlie warns them that war has broken out between Germany and Britain, the Sayers choose to stay on, only to witness the Germans burn down the mission village and herd the villagers away. When Samuel protests, he is beaten by a German soldier. After the Germans leave, Samuel becomes delirious with fever and soon dies. Charlie returns shortly afterward. He helps Rose bury her brother, and they set off in the "African Queen". Charlie mentions to Rose that the Germans have a gunboat, the "Königin Luise"
Paul Sayer Paul Sayer Paul Sayer (born 4 October 1955, South Milford, near Leeds) is an English author. His first novel, "The Comforts of Madness" won the 1988 Whitbread Award for both Best First Novel, and Book of the Year. Born in South Milford near Leeds, Sayer has lived in and around York since the age of 18. He was working as a psychiatric nurse in Clifton Hospital in York whilst writing his first prizewinning novel, drawing on his own experiences it is a first-person account of a speechless, catatonic patient in a hospital therapy unit. Over the next few years, with