Donovan's Reef Movie Information

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Overall Rank: 7838

Average Rating: 2.5/4

# of Ratings: 25

Theatrical Release Date: 06/12/1963

Language: English

Genre: Action, Comedy

MPAA Rating: NR

Director: John Ford

Actors: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Cesar Romero, Dorothy Lamour

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Rating of
3/4

Indyfreak - wrote on 12/12/2021

Light and easygoing comedy starring John Wayne and Lee Marvin as two rambunctious ex-sailors who brawl, drink, and have misadventures on a beautiful South Pacific island. Once the daughter of a navy buddy shows up, hoping to find a means to deny him an inheritance, they scramble to help their friend. Gorgeous scenery and the cast is having fun.

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Rating of
1.5/4

"Donovan's Reef" by Yojimbo

Yojimbo - wrote on 04/23/2012

Donovan's Reef was the final collaboration between Johns Wayne and Ford, and features manly men doing manly things such as swill booze, chomp on cee-gars and hit each other with furniture. It can best be seen as a kind of attempt to make a masculine romantic comedy. However to me it just seemed like a western set in the south seas with all but the bar room brawls, sentiment and romance removed. In other words, with all the good bits removed. It's not dreadful as such, but it's gender politics are very dated (as if a young Boston sophisticate would be attracted to an middle-aged, brawling, beer sodden school boy) and it's just not that funny. Not a fitting epilogue to a partnership that produced some of the cinematic greats. Or maybe I'm just not "manly" enough...

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