Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

WiseRatFlames An unexpected masterpiece

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Doc Martin For those with an IQ above room temperature and for whom reality is important I'll only comment that this John Wayne movie is one of his best. It contains the innocent fun of the US in 1963 and is a straightforward film with a straightforward story and, contrary to those with some sort of liberal axe to grind this film is exactly what it was intended to be, i.e., 91 minutes of fun with a decent look at one of my favorite places on earth Kalapaki Beach, Lihue, Kauai and the Duke in his prime.

sol- Hoping to inherent a substantial fortune by proving that her estranged father is a man of ill repute, a Boston woman travels to the tropical island where her father has long resided in this late career John Ford comedy. Elizabeth Allen is well cast as the prudish woman in question who gradually softens during the course of the film, but top billing here goes to John Wayne and Lee Marvin, cast as her father's friends. Wayne in fact has the most screen time as he takes to covering up the fact that Allen's father married a local woman - and had three non-Caucasian children - by pretending that the kids are his own. The comedic potential of this angle is never quite maximised though as Ford instead tries to derive humour from friendly fistfights and physical comedy (a man crashing through a concert piano). Wayne's formulaic romancing of Allen is not especially funny either, but then again comedy was never Ford's strongest suit. The film is more worthwhile than it may sound though. The snapshot of island life is fairly alluring with many races living there in peace and harmony. The locations are quite spectacular too and one gets a sense that the characters living there are quite rich in other ways, even if they do not have a fortune to inherit. The film has a very good supporting cast too, though most do not have a lot to do. Caesar Romero is perfectly smarmy, Jack Warden is solid as Allen's father and Jacqueline Malouf is great as Warden's eldest daughter who has to contend with the emotional toll of meeting her half-sister for the first time and pretending to be someone else.

classicsoncall This is the kind of movie that after I've seen it, I wonder why it took so long to get around to it. It's not your typical John Wayne movie, and seeing how it was directed by long time collaborator and director friend John Ford, I found the change of pace from their traditional Westerns a welcome diversion. With Lee Marvin in the picture, I had to wonder how the three of them got any work done as all were prolific drinkers, and Marvin in particular seemed to be playing himself pretty much throughout the entire film. I have to say, I never thought I'd see the day, or the movie, in which Edgar Buchanan showed up in a jacket and tie. As the Boston attorney who encouraged Amelia Dedham (Elizabeth Allen) to 'cheat' on a will, he almost looked like an honest to goodness lawyer. Well, maybe not honest. And with Dorothy Lamour on hand in a small but noteworthy role, I was secretly wishing for Hope and Crosby to show up in a cameo appearance. That would have been kind of cool given the tropical setting; Crosby could have sung 'Mele Kalikamaka', a snappy tune that would have been right at home for the holidays in the picture. Once the premise is set with Miss Dedham's arrival on the island, the story becomes fairly predictable, as all the while one is waiting for the big reveal concerning her three young siblings. So most of the fun is seeing how the story gets there with the various diversions offered by Donovan (Wayne) and Gilhooley's (Marvin) annual birthday brawl and the colorful island dances and traditions. The picture reminded me of a 1955 film that also took place on an island, "We're No Angels" starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Rey. The trio are convicts who ingratiate themselves with an elderly couple's family after escaping from Devil's Island. Quite coincidentally, that story also took place on Christmas Day and had a roof that needed patching.

AaronCapenBanner Once again, director John Ford and star John Wayne make a picture together, as Wayne plays "Guns" Donavan, who, along with his friends "Boats" Gilhooley(played by Lee Marvin) and Dr. Dedham(played by Jack Warden) who lead an easygoing life on their Pacific island reef. One day, Dedham's daughter(played by Elizabeth Allen) comes to visit her father from their native Boston. Being a proper woman, she is appalled by the free-living(and often drunken) state her father lives in, so has decided to use his lifestyle against him in order to acquire his share of their lucrative shipping business for herself, but doesn't count on the determination and charm of Donovan...Overlong and frivolous film isn't really hard to take, but is easy to forget, with a totally predictable plot that unfolds far too lackadaisically.