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Donovan's Reef
from Paramount
starring John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Cesar Romero
directed by John Ford

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• The Last Great John Ford-John Wayne Collaboration
  This film has a lot of endearing and great elements. The film is set in the South Pacific with a rowdy cast of characters - John Wayne, Jack Warden and Lee Marvin. War buddies from World War II and living on the island ever since the end of the war, the Doc (Jack Warden) has a daughter who visits the island. Chaos ensues as the doc's friends cover his back while he's away visiting the outer islands. The daughter, heiress to a huge shipping company, might be offended by her father's marriage to a local... more info

• My shout for Donovans Reef
  Something in me identified with this oddity, maybe 5 years in the Navy, or living on a tropical island. Big John was never my favourite, ah but Lee Marvin - I liked him in 'Paint Your Wagon' & Cat Ballou only, but the whole mixture of the cast and the setting - magic, like them Pearly Shells ! The ' Aussie ' sailors are a farce - struth strike me down with a feather, more like a mob of Irishmen !! The story has poignance, comedy, fun, and some romance. I watch it when I'm down, and it always is a upper... more info

• Donovan's Reef
  The final collaboration of John Ford & John Wayne was perhaps their weakest effort. Donovan's Reef is beautifully filmed in color & Ford gives loving detail much as he did with The Quiet Man. I sense that this movie was made on a "working" vacation, they make the movie on location in Hawaii & get paid to do it. How much better can it get? Donovan's Reef is shown in a widescreen format though the aspect ratio isn't extreme. The cast is good & it's not Ford's usual stock company of actors. It... more info

• NOT A GREAT MOVIE, JUST ONE OF THE BEST EVER!!!
  Save the critical eye, ear and mind for the 20th viewing of this story.
  It is a multiple love story, POSSIBLY with the greatest love story involving a dead South Pacific princess and her still-devoted husband.
  There is the polygamous masculine love story of "The Duke's" title character and his two old WWII shipmates.
  There is the raucous relationship of an incredible Lee Marvin-created character and a somewhat bawdy Dorothy Lamour, who yearns for Donovan, but is perfectly happy settling... more info

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