Donovan's Reef

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Donovan's Reef ★★★ 1963

Two WWII buddies meet every year on a Pacific atoll to engage in a perpetual bar-brawl, until a stuck-up Bostonian maiden appears to find her dad, a man who has fathered a brood of lovable half-casts. A rollicking, good-natured film from Ford. 109m/ C VHS, DVD . John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen, Dorothy Lamour, Mike Mazurki, Cesar Romero; D: John Ford; W: James Edward Grant, Frank Nugent; C: William Clothier; M: Cyril Mockridge.