Donovan's Reef

Comedy, Romance, Action

John Wayne	Michael Patrick Donovan
Lee Marvin	Thomas Aloysius Gilhooley
Elizabeth Allen	Ameilia Sarah Dedham
Jack Warden	Dr. William Dedham
Cesar Romero	Marquis Andre de Lage
Dick Foran	Australian Navy Officer
Dorothy Lamour	Miss Lafleur
Marcel Dalio	Father Cluzeot
Mike Mazurki	Sergeant Monk Menkowicz
Jacqueline Malouf	Lelani Dedham
Elizabeth Allan

Director	John Ford
Producer	John Ford
Writer	Edmund Beloin; James Edward Grant; Frank Nugent

Michael Donovan (John Wayne) and Dr. William Dedham (Jack Warden) are United States Navy men living on an island in the Pacific. The men had settled there after fighting to free the island from the Japanese in World War 2. Dr. Dedham's daughter Amelia (Elizabeth Allen) arrives at the island while her father is away on business, and meet Donovan. Knowing Amelia has never met her father, and had not heard he had three children from an island girl, Donovan pretend the children are his own and presents himself as a bit of a scoundrel as he squires Amelia around the island. Amelia confides she is visiting her father to see if he is of "good character" as a relative died and the good doctor is set to receive a considerable inheritance. A romance follows as Donovan shows Amelia the good her estranged father has accomplished on the item, and though their is a lot of argument and fighting, she stubbornly accepts her father and Donovan on their own terms.