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- 1963
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 49 m
- 1963
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 49 m
Summary Comedy subtly dealing with moral issues such as racial bigotry, corporate greed, American belief of societal superiority and hypocrisy.
Directed By: John Ford
- 1963
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 49 m
- 1963
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 49 m
Donovan's Reef
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Summary Comedy subtly dealing with moral issues such as racial bigotry, corporate greed, American belief of societal superiority and hypocrisy.
Directed By: John Ford
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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70% Positive
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30% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
64
70% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Big, bright, corny, muscular, beautifully photographed. [12 Nov 2000, p.27]
By any interpretation, Donovan's Reef is a beautiful example of cinematic art, and the atavistic desire to let the movie sweep over the spectator without disruptive analysis is at least understandable. [01 Aug 1963, p.13]
Supremely goofy in tone, the film pits Wayne (in his last Ford film) and Marvin as drunken pals who careen from one friendly brawl to the next. A Pacific island paradise becomes their silly playpen.
A rowdy, cheerful film on the surface, it has a disturbingly sour undertone supplied by Ford's realization that this paradise cannot be, and never was.
Donovan's Reef, for a director of John Ford's stature, is a potboiler. Where Ford aficianados will squirm is during that occasional scene that reminds them this effort-less effort is the handiwork of the men who made Stagecoach and The Informer.
The verdant, lush Hawaiian setting is visually stunning but the slapstick is forced and unbecoming.
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