Top Billed Cast

John Wayne
Michael "Guns" Donovan
Elizabeth Allen
Ameilia Dedham
Lee Marvin
Thomas "Boats" Gilhooley
Cesar Romero
Andre de Lage
Mike Mazurki
Monk Menkowicz
Jack Warden
William Dedham
Jacqueline Malouf
Lelani Dedham
Cherylene Lee
Sarah "Sally" Dedham
Jeffrey Byron
Luki Dedham
Dorothy Lamour
Miss Lafleur
Marcel Dalio
Father Cluzeot
Dick Foran
Sean O'Brien
Edgar Buchanan
Francis O'Brien
Jon Fong
Mister Eu
Dan Ford
Child (uncredited)
Mae Marsh
Family Council Member (uncredited)
Ron Nyman
Naval Officer (uncredited)
Aissa Wayne
Native Girl (uncredited)
Sara Taft
Family Council Member (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson
Festus
John Alderson
Officer (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
Chief Petty Officer (uncredited)
Richard Kipling
Lawyer (uncredited)
John Qualen
Deckhand Who Cries 'Man Overboard' (uncredited)
Charles Seel
Grand Uncle Sedley Atterbury Pennyfeather (uncredited)
Patrick Wayne
Australian Navy Lieutenant (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Mon Dec 24 2018

Sunny, breezy and flipping delightful. You hear the names John Ford and John Wayne and one automatically thinks of Westerns, sprawling landscapes and machismo in bunches. Odd then that their last collaboration should be a knock about comedy set on a paradise isle. Perhaps even odder is that it should turn out to be one of their most entertaining films. Donovan's Reef finds the two Johns in very relaxed mood, as is the rest of the cast I might add. A cast that includes Lee Marvin, Mike Mazurki, Jack Warden, Cesar Romero, Dorothy Lamour and the lovely Elizabeth Allen. Speaking personally,...