Donovan's Reef

Donovan's Reef

Director: John Ford Cast: John Wayne
John Wayne
, Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin
, Jack Warden
Jack Warden
, Elizabeth Allen
Elizabeth Allen
John Ford
Donovan's Reef

Donovan's Reef

Director: John Ford Cast: John Wayne
John Wayne
, Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin
, Jack Warden
Jack Warden
, Elizabeth Allen
Elizabeth Allen
John Ford

DVD (Wide Screen / Subtitled / Dubbed)

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Overview

John Ford's last film to deal with World War II, Donovan's Reef is an alternately comical and sentimental look back on the fighting Navy men from that war, and how and where -- in Ford's eyes, and Frank Nugent and James Edward Grant's script -- they should have ended up. Michael "Guns" Donovan (John Wayne), Thomas "Boats" Gilhooley (Lee Marvin), and Dr. William Dedham (Jack Warden), a trio of navy veterans who fought on the Pacific island of Haleakalowa during the war, now live on the island. Donovan and Gilhooley, biding time and enjoying themselves, engage in rough-house hijinks among themselves, and are both part of the doctor's extended family, enjoying the good will of the islanders for whom they fought during the war. While Dedham is away on a call to a neighboring island, his grown daughter, Amelia (Elizabeth Allen), from his first marriage, whom he has never seen, announces that she is arriving from Boston to determine Dedham's fitness of character to inherit the majority shares in the family shipping business. Donovan contrives to present Dedham's three Polynesian children, whom the doctor had with the island's hereditary princess, as his own, and also squires Amelia around the island in her father's absence. In the process, the cold Bostonian woman discovers a whole world -- of passion, joy, heroism, and a life among men and women whose lives have been about something other than making money -- that she's never known. She also understands all of the good that her father has accomplished away from Boston, even though it entailed abandoning her. Sparks and even a few fists fly between Donovan and Amelia (and between Donovan and several other characters), in the usual Ford rough-house manner, before their eventual reconciliation and a romantic clinch at the end, in this sweet, sentimental comedy-drama.

Product Details

Release Date: 09/12/2017
UPC: 0032429280930
Original Release: 1963
Rating: NR
Source: PARAMOUNT
Language: English
Time: 1:48:00
Sales rank: 9,471

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
John Wayne Michael Patrick "Guns" Donovan,Aussie Officer,Native Girl
Lee Marvin Thomas Aloysius "Boats" Gilhooley
Jack Warden Dr. William Dedham
Elizabeth Allen Amelia Sarah Dedham
Cesar Romero Marquis Andre de Lage
Dorothy Lamour Fleur
Marcel Dalio Father Cluzeot
Mike Mazurki Sgt. Monk Menkowicz
Jacqueline Malouf Lelani
Cherylene Lee Sally
Tim Stafford Luki
Edgar Buchanan Francis X. O'Brien
Jon Fong Mr. Eu,Sells Ameilia a Swimsuit
Yvonne Peattie Sister Matthew
Ralph Volkie James
Frank Baker Capt. Martin
June Y. Kim Yoshi, Servant,Actor
¿idori Koshi, Servant
Ron Nyman Naval Officer
Carmen Estrabeau Sister Gabrielle
Chuck Roberson Festus
Duke Green Mate
King Lockwood Lawyer
Dick Foran Australian Navy Officer
Charles Seel Grand Uncle Sedley Atterbury
Cliff Lyons Officer
Mae Marsh Family council member
Sara Taft Family council member
Carl Leviness Actor
Fred Jones Family council member,Family Council Member
Scott Seaton Actor
Major Sam Harris Family council member
Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum Actor
John Alderson Officer
Clyde Cook Australian Officer
Dan Ford Child
H.W. Gim Chinese Man
Frank Hagney Chief Petty Officer
Richard Kipling Lawyer
Michele Watley Servant
John Qualen Deckhand Who Cries 'Man Overboard'
Cheryline Lee Sally Dedham
John Stafford Child
Cyril J. Mockridge Composer,Composer

Technical Credits
John Ford Director,Producer
Farciot Edouart Special Effects
Paul K. Lerpae Special Effects
James Edward Grant Screenwriter
Frank S. Nugent Screenwriter
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