John Ford himself didn't take this movie seriously and he doesn't pretend anything we will see in it has any vague resemblance with reality. We might say that movie has some funny moments and also moments which are simply stupid. We mighty say also here are some poetic justice and other things, which simply doesn't make sense. John might have been dead drunk when he directed this movie. ...and also it has some terrible racially stereotyped characters: Chinese, Japanese, native Polynesians, almost blasphemous jokes and morbid sense of Fordian Irish humour. Weak hearts, beware!
Review of Donovan's Reef
