Acclaimed director John Ford and screen legend John Wayne team up for what would be their final collaboration in this boisterous, rowdy South Seas escapade, The Duke, Lee Marvin and Jack Warden play World War II navy buddies who have made the French Polynesian island of Haleakaloha their post-war paradise. Local headquarters is Donovans Reef, Waynes rough-and-tumble watering hole where bragging, brawling, and full-blown misbehaviour are the order of the day. But destined to create more turmoil than any barroom fisticuffs, is the sudden arrival of Elizabeth Allen a straight-laced Boston blue blood. Shes hoping to locate her long estranged father (Warden), affirm that he is not of good moral character and then assume control of the familys shipping dynasty back home in the States. Suave, debonair Cesar Romero and a sarong-clad Dorothy Lamour add to the laughs and mayhem in this tropical comedy treat.