Cesar Romero, Charles Seel, Dick Foran

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  read more... )r father, lots of mayhem breaks loose.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 49 min.

Directed by: John Ford

Release Date: January 1, 1963

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DVD Release Date: June 5, 2001

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  • March 6, 2008
    Donovan'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...( read more) 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...
  • November 23, 2009
    One of my fav Christmas movies that I watch anytime of the year.







    Christmas in Hawaii with The Duke... One of my fav Christmas movies that I watch anytime of the year.
  • November 18, 2009
    John Wayne does comedy.
  • July 25, 2009
    Saw it before and really love his movies
  • April 5, 2009
    A little different for JW but still done in a style that only the Duke could pull off.
  • March 11, 2009
    Outstanding movie John Wayne is my family favorite actor
  • March 5, 2009
    this was a fun one to watch
  • September 12, 2008
    my all time fav J W film
  • August 6, 2008
    Stupid 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.
  • May 31, 2008
    no that looks really gay!

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