Take two legendary co-stars, a rip-roaring boys’ own story, a fearless director and an eventful location shoot in Zaire and Uganda and you get The African Queen – John Huston’s classic adventure movie…
Introduced by Imelda Staunton
1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners.
Ben Aitken is a volunteer in the library, and this is the true story of the unlikely friendship that develops when he moves in with a difficult widow 50 years his senior