Donovan's Reef

John Ford directs his energies toward the South Pacific. A Bostonian spinster travels to French Polynesia to find her long-lost, somewhat disreputable, father. It is exactly the sort of thing you expect, even if you don't expect John Ford to have made it.

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John Ford directed Donovan's Reef in 1963. See John Ford's full filmography, where to start with John Ford, or where to go after you've seen everything by John Ford.

Donovan's Reef was released in 1963 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 109 minutes.