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Two Navy buddies stay on a South Pacific island after World War II - one operates a saloon, the other raises a Polynesian family. When the daughter of the family-man arrives from the States to find he...( read more 
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MCT:August 6, 2008Stupid fun from John Ford and many of his usual suspects. The very brief Christmas scene puts this on my short list of must-see Christmas videos every year.
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MCT:March 6, 2008Donovan's Reef was the final collaboration between Johns Wayne and Ford, and features manly men doing manly things such as swill booze, chomp on cee-gars and hit each other with furniture. It can best be seen as a kind of attempt to make a masculine romantic comedy. However to me it just seemed like a western set in the south seas with all but the bar room brawls, sentiment and romance removed. In other words, with all the good bits removed. It's not dreadful as such, but it's gender politics are very dated (as if a young Boston sophisticate would be attracted to an middle-aged, brawling, beer sodden school boy) and it's just not that funny. Not a fitting epilogue to a partnership that produced some of the cinematic greats. Or maybe I'm just not "manly" enough...
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MCT:September 1, 2007
I don't like the fat racist one in the lead of this film, but it is worth admitting that, upon occasion, he did make a good film, the Searchers, for instance, this too, is quite good, and worth watching it just for the fight (i was routing for Lee Marvin of course)
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MCT:June 9, 2007he has so many movies, you don;t know which one to like. i like almost al his movies.ther are some i don't like .he is my favorite actor.my son was named after hi one son.
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MCT:May 15, 2007I just love every single minute of this movie. I've seen it twenty times and will gladly watch it twenty more.
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MCT:April 25, 2007
John Wayne is good in this even though it's not a western. Lee Marvin stars also and it has some good comedy moments in it.
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MCT:January 15, 2007
One of my favorite John Wayne movies. I remember watching this on the base in Annapolis as a young girl.
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MCT:November 17, 2006
Several WW2 vets (Jack Warden, Lee Marvin & John Wayne) living on a sunny South Pacific island, celebrate a traditional Christmas with playful drinking and fighting.
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MCT:October 14, 2006
Nothing like watching John Wayne spank a woman and then make out with her like there's nothing wrong. O.o...
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