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.

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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)

Crew

John Ford

Producer

James Edward Grant

Screenplay

Cyril J. Mockridge

Original Music Composer

Edmund Beloin

Story

William H. Clothier

Director of Photography

John Ford

Director

Hal Pereira

Art Direction

Frank S. Nugent

Screenplay

Otho Lovering

Editor

Eddie Imazu

Art Direction

Hal Needham

Stunts

Charles Grenzbach

Sound Recordist

Wally Westmore

Makeup Supervisor

Darrell Silvera

Set Decoration

Edith Head

Costume Design

Sam Comer

Set Decoration

Hugo Grenzbach

Sound Recordist

Nellie Manley

Hair Supervisor

Robert Rhea

Assistant Camera