Donovan's Reef

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.

Cast

John Wayne

as Michael "Guns" Donovan

Elizabeth Allen

as Ameilia Dedham

Lee Marvin

as Thomas "Boats" Gilhooley

Cesar Romero

as Andre de Lage

Mike Mazurki

as Monk Menkowicz

Jack Warden

as William Dedham

Jacqueline Malouf

as Lelani Dedham

Cherylene Lee

as Sarah "Sally" Dedham

Jeffrey Byron

as Luki Dedham

Dorothy Lamour

as Miss Lafleur

Reviews

John Chard

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 ...

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