Donovan's Reef
“Gangway...For This Year's BIG Adventure!”
After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.
Genres
Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Donovan's Reef performed
Budget
$2.7M
Worldwide Gross
$6.6M
Gross Profit
$3.9M
Return
2.5× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$762K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~33/67, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Adventure) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Michael "Guns" Donovan
John Wayne
Michael "Guns" Donovan
Ameilia Dedham
Elizabeth Allen
Ameilia Dedham
Thomas "Boats" Gilhooley
Lee Marvin
Thomas "Boats" Gilhooley
Andre de Lage
Cesar Romero
Andre de Lage
Monk Menkowicz
Mike Mazurki
Monk Menkowicz
William Dedham
Jack Warden
William Dedham
Lelani Dedham
Jacqueline Malouf
Lelani Dedham
Sarah "Sally" Dedham
Cherylene Lee
Sarah "Sally" Dedham
Luki Dedham
Jeffrey Byron
Luki Dedham
Miss Lafleur
Dorothy Lamour
Miss Lafleur
Father Cluzeot
Marcel Dalio
Father Cluzeot
Sean O'Brien
Dick Foran
Sean O'Brien
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