Clint Eastwood is basically playing John Huston, who is more interested in shooting an elephant than a movie. That movie is The African Queen, which was overrated anyway. The actors who are basically playing Bogart, Hepburn and Lauren Bacall are not very good. It's pretty hard to take Eastwood playing Huston at first, but you'll get over it. It gets better as it goes along and it has a great ending.