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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: WAYNE,JOHN EAN: 9780792172888 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0792172884 Label: Paramount Languages: Manufacturer: Paramount MPN: 097360622041 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 05, 2001 Running Time: 108 minutes Studio: Paramount Theatrical Release Date: June 12, 1963 Editorial Review: Product Description: Two ex-Navy buddies are living a life of leisure on a South Pacific island until they are interrupted by a prim Bostonian in search of her father. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: NR Release Date: 28-MAR-2006 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Last Great John Ford-John Wayne CollaborationThis film has a lot of endearing and great elements. The film is set in the South Pacific with a rowdy cast of characters - John Wayne, Jack Warden and Lee Marvin. War buddies from World War II and living on the island ever since the end of the war, the Doc (Jack Warden) has a daughter who visits the island. Chaos ensues as the doc's friends cover his back while he's away visiting the outer islands. The daughter, heiress to a huge shipping company, might be offended by her father's marriage to a ... Read More Rating: - My shout for Donovans ReefSomething in me identified with this oddity, maybe 5 years in the Navy, or living on a tropical island. Big John was never my favourite, ah but Lee Marvin - I liked him in 'Paint Your Wagon' & Cat Ballou only, but the whole mixture of the cast and the setting - magic, like them Pearly Shells ! The ' Aussie ' sailors are a farce - struth strike me down with a feather, more like a mob of Irishmen !! The story has poignance, comedy, fun, and some romance. I watch it when I'm down, and it always is ... Read More Rating:  - Donovan's ReefThe final collaboration of John Ford & John Wayne was perhaps their weakest effort. Donovan's Reef is beautifully filmed in color & Ford gives loving detail much as he did with The Quiet Man. I sense that this movie was made on a "working" vacation, they make the movie on location in Hawaii & get paid to do it. How much better can it get? Donovan's Reef is shown in a widescreen format though the aspect ratio isn't extreme. The cast is good & it's not Ford's usual stock company of actors. It has Lee ... Read More Rating: - The Last Great John Ford-John Wayne CollaborationThis film has a lot of endearing and great elements. The film is set in the South Pacific with a rowdy cast of characters - John Wayne, Jack Warden and Lee Marvin. War buddies from World War II and living on the island ever since the end of the war, the Doc (Jack Warden) has a daughter who visits the island. Chaos ensues as the doc's friends cover his back while he's away visiting the outer islands. The daughter, heiress to a huge shipping company, might be offended by her father's marriage to ... Read More Rating: - NOT A GREAT MOVIE, JUST ONE OF THE BEST EVER!!!Save the critical eye, ear and mind for the 20th viewing of this story. It is a multiple love story, POSSIBLY with the greatest love story involving a dead South Pacific princess and her still-devoted husband. There is the polygamous masculine love story of "The Duke's" title character and his two old WWII shipmates. There is the raucous relationship of an incredible Lee Marvin-created character and a somewhat bawdy Dorothy Lamour, who yearns for Donovan, but is perfectly happy settling ... Read More |
