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Donovan’s Reef is a delightful, breezy “good-bye” to the legendary collaboration between John Ford and John Wayne. This is the self-referential hang-out film of Ford’s career as well, dropping in slight nods to The Quiet Man and his general aloof way of conjuring comedy.
10 de may. de 2019 · May 10, 2019. Sunny Sea Bright has become an inspirational model of rebirth, a beach blanket of the old and new knitted together by the people. Within that blanket is another real story of inspiration, family and community. It’s the iconic Donovan’s Reef and its tireless, spirited leader, Christine Carducci, her family, partner Bob Phillips ...
15 de nov. de 2021 · “Donovan’s Reef” is the flip of that: if it’s possible to like a movie without respecting it, here it is. The story is that three U.S. Navy veterans were shipwrecked on the (fictional) French Polynesian island of Haleakaloha during World War II, wound up befriending the natives and led an insurgency against the Japanese for the rest of the war, and never really left.
3 de nov. de 2018 · John Ford – Donovan’s Reef (1963) ‘Guns’ Donovan prefers carousing with his pals Doc Dedham and ‘Boats’ Gilhooley, until Dedham’s high-society daughter Amelia shows up in their South Seas paradise. ONLY an ancient hermit would believe that the director John Ford and his writers, Frank S. Nugent and James Edward Grant, were serious ...
Acclaimed director John Ford and screen legend John Wayne team up for what would be their final collaboration in this boisterous, rowdy South Seas escapade. The Duke, Lee Marvin and Jack Warden play World War II navy buddies who have made the French Polynesian island of Haleakaloha their post-war paradise. Local headquarters is Donovan's Reef, Wayne's rough-and-tumble watering hole where ...
Critics at the time of the release of Donovan's Reef (1963) can be forgiven for thinking this was little more than a romp for the John Ford stock company - an excuse to spend some time in Hawaii. For one thing, it's a lightweight action comedy that followed on the heels of such somber Western mythologies as Two Rode Together (1961) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and the first ...
Donovan's Reef. Michael Donovan, Thomas Gilhooley and William Dedham are all ex-Navy pals and have ended up on a South Pacific island after the war. Donovan runs the bar, Gilhooley hangs out there and Dedham is now the island doctor, married to one of the locals. Trouble threatens their paradise when Dedham's estranged daughter Amelia arrives ...
