Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are English Methodist missionaries in German East Africa in August 1914. Their mail and supplies are delivered by a small steamboat named the African Queen, helmed by the rough-and-ready Canadian mechanic Charlie Allnut, whose coarse behavior they stiffly tolerate.

Charlie Allnut : How right you are, Rosie, 'cause no other man alive's got you. I'll never forget the way you looked going over the falls: head up, chin out, hair blowing in the wind.

The novel was made into a film in 1951: The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnutt and Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer. Allnutt is changed to a Canadian in the film to explain Bogart's accent.

Charlie Allnut, played by Humphrey Bogart, is a rough-and-ready Canadian delivery boy who delivers post and supply packages to two missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German East Africa, in September 1914, at the start of World War 1.

At the start of World War I, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayers' sister, Rose, back to civilization, taking on the Germans at the same time.

Charlie Allnut was a Canadian steamboat sailor in the 1910s who operated from his boat The African Queen to deliver cargo to British colonial missionaries in Africa. In the September of 1914 in the early months of World War I he would become pursued by German forces along with missionary Rose Sayer.

Charlie Allnut is a character from C.S. Forester's 1935 adventure novel The African Queen and the 1951 film of the same name which was an inspiration for the Jungle Cruise. Charlie Allnut was a Canadian man born in the 19th century.

The story of Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer appealed to John Huston instantly. C. S. Forester’s tale of a mismatched couple, the convict and the missionary lady, centered on one of the best colorfully conflicted duos in Huston films.

To sink the heart of the East-African German war machine, Charlie Allnut has a borderline suicidal plan. It's the only one they've got.

Humphrey Bogart – The African Queen as Charlie Allnut‡ Marlon Brando – A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski; Montgomery Clift – A Place in the Sun as George Eastman; Arthur Kennedy – Bright Victory as Larry Nevins; Fredric March – Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman; Vivien Leigh – A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche Dubois‡