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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience 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
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2001
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 3064
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: June 12, 1963
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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:  -
This 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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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This movie was a bit of a risk for me, as I never usually associate John Wayne or Lee Marvin with comedy films.However, I have found this film to be a real treasure and one which always makes me smile, no matter how often or recently I've seen it. Truly a small risk that paid off big!
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One striking feature of this light-hearted movie is the footage of its setting (a south Pacific island). There is the sea, the sky, the palms, the mountains, and the beaches. There are the beautiful native costumes and Polynesian songs. The viewer is treated to a Christmas pageant in a tropical setting. Then there are the torrential tropical storms.
This movie has nothing to do with reefs. Donovan (John Wayne) owns a saloon which he calls Donovan's Reef. What would a John Wayne movie ... Read More
Rating:  -
a year after his last true masterpiece ("the man who shot liberty valance") director john ford reunited with two of his stars, john wayne and lee marvin, for the final comedy of his career. while wayne is terrific as the brawling owner of a south pacific bar, and marvin has fun in the role victor mclaglen would have essayed at an earlier time, the movie is hurt irreparably by the stilted acting of elizabeth allen, in the role that would once have been played (and splendidly) by maureen o'hara. too ... Read More
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