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Donovan's Reef (1963)

Gangway...For This Year's BIG Adventure!

6.3(157)1h 49mJune 12, 1963

Adventure Comedy Romance

John Ford

Director

Edmund Beloin, Frank S. Nugent, James Edward Grant

Writers

Rate

Diary

Overview

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.

Cast

John Wayne

Michael "Guns" Donovan

Elizabeth Allen

Ameilia Dedham

Lee Marvin

Thomas "Boats" Gilhooley

Cesar Romero

Andre de Lage

Donovan's Reef · Cinemalant

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Mike Mazurki

Monk Menkowicz

Jack Warden

William Dedham

Jeffrey Byron

Luki Dedham

Dorothy Lamour

Miss Lafleur

Marcel Dalio

Father Cluzeot

Dick Foran

Sean O'Brien

Edgar Buchanan

Francis O'Brien

Mae Marsh

Family Council Member (uncredited)

Sara Taft

Family Council Member (uncredited)

Chuck Roberson

Festus

John Alderson

Officer (uncredited)

Frank Hagney

Chief Petty Officer (uncredited)

Videos

Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: June 12, 1963
Budget: $2,686,000
Revenue: $6,600,000
Production: Paramount Pictures, John Ford Productions
Country: United States of America

Keywords

birthdayhalf-brotherpriestveteranmission clinicpolynesia

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