Agee &co kept it in at least up to the shooting draft of the screenplay: "Against this, o.s., mostly in breathy, lonesome undertone, on one or two phrases loudly and assertively, Allnutt is singing, rottenly and inchoately, some part of the following: [ALLNUTT'S VOICE, (o.s.; singing)] Gimmy regards ter Leicester Square Sweet Piccadilly an' Myefair, Remember me to the folks darn there They'll under-sta-and. SLOW FADE on Rose as first daylight begins to appear. [Agee, James; Huston, John; Viertel, Peter; The African Queen, screenplay, 1951]
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