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.
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John Wayne
Michael "Guns" Donovan
Elizabeth Allen
Ameilia Dedham
Lee Marvin
Thomas "Boats" Gilhooley
Cesar Romero
Andre de Lage
Mike Mazurki
Monk Menkowicz
Jack Warden
William Dedham
Jacqueline Malouf
Lelani Dedham
Cherylene Lee
Sarah "Sally" Dedham
Jeffrey Byron
Luki Dedham
Dorothy Lamour
Miss Lafleur
Director
John Ford
Screenplay
Frank S. Nugent
Tagline
"Gangway...For This Year's BIG Adventure!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$2,686,000
Revenue
$6,600,000
Production
Paramount Pictures, John Ford Productions
John Chard
December 24, 2018
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 should turn out to be one of their most entertaining films. Donovan's Reef finds the two Johns in ve...
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