Donovan's Reef
Summary:
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. Willi... Full Summary >>
Cast:
John Wayne - (Michael Patrick "Guns" Donovan)
Lee Marvin - (Thomas Aloysius "Boats" Gilhooley)
Jack Warden - (Dr. William Dedham)
Elizabeth Allen - (Amelia Sarah Dedham)
Dick Foran - (Australian Navy Officer)
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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 sh... Continue >>
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