#1 Cheap Donovan's Reef By WAYNE,JOHN
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Once again, John Wayne teams up with John Ford's great american direction, showing the realistic lives of people, whether from Polynesia or america. Along with an all star cast it is a light hearted potrayal of Lives shortly after WW II in the eastern islands, while also addressing the racism of the era.
The cinematography and sound track is breath taking while it tugs at your heart. I have had this on VHS for decades, but the DVD is much more of a high quality.
Donovan's Reef Overview
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
great movie - James L. Thompson - canton,texas
i like these older movies. can't see'em enough on tv, so i had to have it.good purchase value.
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