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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792172888
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792172884
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2001
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 2451
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: June 12, 1963
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Product Description:
Two navy veterans cover for a buddy whose daughter has found his polynesian paradise. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/11/2006 Starring: John Wayne Dorothy Lamour Run time: 109 minutes Rating: Nr Director: John Ford
Amazon.com:
John Wayne's last film with mentor and long-time collaborator John Ford (The Searchers) is a 1963 comedy about a group of war veterans settled on a South Pacific island. When the daughter of one of them (Jack Warden) comes for a visit, the freewheeling status quo between the boys is disrupted. This is Ford in his chummy, amiable, roughhousing mode--think of Victor McLaglen's drunken fight scene in Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon--and it is entirely pleasurable. Wayne is comfortable in his man's-man role, and Lee Marvin (who played Wayne's nemesis in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) is effectively roguish. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Tell me about a director who could turn a holiday into a film!
Only John Ford could do a trick like that!
A gently amusing comedy (funny enough) filmed as a pretext of having a good time!...
Also a family film (which is a great thing to have around).
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PS: I only think Richard Lester pulled partially the same trick (partially) when filming HELP! with The Beatles... who choosed going to ski and the Bahamas for the sake of it! (they knew we teenagers back then would be going no matter what to the theaters ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - 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. ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792172888
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792172884
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2001
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 2451
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: June 12, 1963