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Donovan's Reef

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Donovan's Reef
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NR,1hr 49min
Genres:
Comedy,Action,Romance
Released:
January 1, 1963
Director:
John Ford
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures
Starring:
John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden  ...more
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG Review
Donovan's Reef is one of John Ford's most misunderstood and underrated movies. On its original release, critics dismissed it as a leisurely comedy done with no obvious purpose other than to give the Ford stock company something not too difficult to do in Hawaii. It is not among Ford's very best movies, to be sure, and its apparent shortcomings, including John Wayne being awkwardly cast opposite a leading ... Full Review
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John Wayne
Michael Patrick "Guns" Donovan
Lee Marvin
Thomas Aloysius "Boats" Gilhooley
Jack Warden
Dr. William Dedham
Elizabeth Allan
Ameilia Sarah Dedham
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