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6.232 of 10 (164 reviews)

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Donovan's Reef - Watch Movie

After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.

Type:

Movie

Genre:

Adventure, Comedy, Romance,

Release Date:

Jun 12, 1963

Director:

John Ford,

Writer:

James Edward Grant (Screenplay), Edmund Beloin (Story), Frank S. Nugent (Screenplay),

Cast:

John Wayne, Elizabeth Allen, Lee Marvin, Cesar Romero, Mike Mazurki, Jack Warden, Jacqueline Malouf, Cherylene Lee, Jeffrey Byron, Dorothy Lamour, Marcel Dalio, Dick Foran, Edgar Buchanan, Jon Fong, Dan Ford, Mae Marsh, Ron Nyman, Aissa Wayne, Sara Taft, Chuck Roberson, John Alderson, Frank Hagney, Richard Kipling, John Qualen, Charles Seel, Patrick Wayne,

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John Chard 23/12/2018

Sunny, breezy and flipping delightful. You hear the names John Ford and John Wayne and one automatically thinks of Westerns, sprawling landscapes and machismo in bunches. Odd then that their last collaboration should be a knock about comedy set on a paradise isle. Perhaps even odder is that it should turn out to be one of their most entertaining films. Donovan's Reef finds the two Johns in very relaxed mood, as is the rest of the cast I might add. A cast that includes Lee Marvin, Mike Mazurki, Jack Warden, Cesar Romero, Dorothy Lamour and the lovely Elizabeth Allen. Speaking personally, I found the film far more rewarding by not knowing much about it before hand, I really only ventured into it out of loyalty to the Johns and the Marv. So in that, this isn't much of a review as such, because I would simply urge people to give it a go. Why you ask?, well because it's one of those films that can brighten your day when things have gone dark, you got The Duke and The Marv slugging each other at regular intervals, not in the normal way associated with these guys, but jocular-with this biff bang machismo comes laughs a plenty. We have Romero and his beard on prime slime mode, Allen as delicious as she is prim and proper and the Kaua'i location work gorgeously realised by William H. Clothier's photography. It's not just a comedy either. Under the mirth we find Ford dealing in thematics such as anti-racism, anti preconceptions and one of his pet leanings of brotherhood. Donovan's Reef is a smashing film, it's far from perfect, something the principals were aware of. But in the end it's obvious that all involved just said to hell with it, lets enjoy it and hope the audience buys into that attitude as well. One can only hope that you do buy into it, and thus get as much fun from it as yours truly most assuredly did. 8/10

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