Donovan's Reef (1963)

John Wayne: Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan

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• [Gilhooley about to throw bottle during fight] 

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Not the brandy, you dope!

  Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley : [puts bottle carefully down on bar]  Sorry!

• Miss Lafleur : [while being pushed off by Gilhooley]  Oh, you've come back to marry me.

  Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley : Oh, now look LaFleur, you're the love of my life. You're the only dame that meant anything to me, but I already told you I'd make a -

  [takes a big gulp of beer] 

  Miss Lafleur : I know.

  Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley : I got a wife in Hoboken.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : ...and San Pedro, and San Diego and Norfolk, Virginia.

  Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley : That's right. You wouldn't want me to go up on a bigamy charge, would you?

• Australian Navy officer : I beg your pardon sir. Did I understand you to say, "Limeys?"

  Diminutive Australian Navy Officer : I heard him.

  Australian Navy Officer : Me too.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : [Enters]  Gilhooley! Where the Hell is my suit?

  Diminutive Australian Navy Officer : [Slaps Donovan on the chest]  Stay out of this little man. You might get hurt.

  Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley : You guys uh, looking for trouble?

  Australian Navy officer : Tipperary born and bred Limeys.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Oh Monk, you're not gonna let three guys gang up on one guy even if it is Gilhooley.

  Sergeant Monk Menkowicz : [Shakes his head]  I seen it done.

  Australian Navy officer : Three against two.

  [Pokes Donovan in the chest] 

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Me?

  Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley : [laughs] 

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Its the holidays. Christmas. Have a drink.

  Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley : I will, then.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : On the house. Look, we're noble allies. Coral Seas - we were with you.

  Australian Navy officer : He's got a point

  Diminutive Australian Navy Officer : Yeah, a definite point.

  Australian Navy officer : Ah, my apologies to you sir.

  Diminutive Australian Navy Officer : And a Happy New Year to us all.

  Australian Navy officer : FESTUS!

  [Enter Festus, smiling and eager] 

  Australian Navy officer : My little brother. Festus, we're having a sporting event. Turn your hat around. You are now a Yank. Three against -

  [punched by Festus] 

• Ameilia Sarah Dedham : You know, Michael Donovan, you're quite a - a fella.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Well, you know, Amelia Dedham...

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : [Pulls her close while fishing a cigarette out of his pocket] 

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : You're quite a gal. Cigarette?

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : [She turns away from him]  What's a matter?

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : I had the strangest feeling that you were going to kiss me.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : What?

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : Well, I have been kissed before.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : [Walks inside to turn out the light then walks back out, spins her around and kisses her] 

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : [Flustered]  Ah! I... I...

  [Dazed] 

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : I thought I'd been kissed before.

  [Kisses him back] 

• Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : [Sending Morse Code message to Doc]  Let's have it.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : [Reads note from Gilhooley]  "Doc, Mayday, your Boston dotter here." Dotter, D-O-T-T-E-R.

  Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley : That's right. Two T's.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Insert name of? Her name's AMEILIA, you dope!

  Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley : How do I know? I ain't shackin' up with her!

• Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Ameilia, if I consent to marry you...

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : If you consent!

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : ...and if we were to be blessed with a children, and if the first should be a boy, he will be called Francis Xavier Donovan after my father.

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : He will be called Sedley Atterbury Dedham after my great uncle.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Sedley Atterbury... that's a HELL of a name for a Donovan!

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : He will be named William after my father.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : The doc? That's swell. I'll call him Bill. Pax?

• Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Aw, Monk, you're not gonna let three guys take on one - even if it is Gilhooley.

  Sergeant Monk Menkowicz : I seen it done.

• Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Permission to speak.

  Dr. William Dedham : Shoot.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : What started it was this knothead tried to push a hootchie-cootchie dancer off on me in Panama!

  [Gilhooley laughs] 

  Dr. William Dedham : Gilhooley? Well, What's wrong with that?

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Nothing, except a marriage licence and wedding ring through my nose went with it!

• Ameilia Sarah Dedham : Captain, I should like to charter the Araner for however long it takes me to find my father and take me back to Honolulu.

  Captain Martin : Um... well, as to that...

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : The Araner is not for charter; she has too much draft for the Low Islands. Reefs and coral heads.

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : Thank you Mr. Donovan. I was speaking to the sailing master. Captain, it should only take...

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : But I OWN the Araner, and the Inisfar and the Inisfree, and several others. You might say that we are rivals, competitors in the shipping business.

• Ameilia Sarah Dedham : [reading inscription on monument]  Princess Manulani, Commander William... Dedham? Michael Patrick Donovan... Thomas Al-oy-si-us Gilhooley...

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Thomas Aloysius Gilhooley!

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : Does this mean there was actual fighting on this island?

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Well, those gold stars don't stand for good behavior.

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : Well, tell me.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : There's not much to tell. We got blown off our can... that's a destroyer, ended up here on the island. There was a big Jap base down there. So, we hid out back here in the hills... down in those caves. Tossed a few monkey wrenches into their machinery, threw 'em a few spitballs.

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : Hard to believe that war has ever been within a thousand miles of a place as peaceful as this.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Yeah, well, frangipani and flame-throwers don't seem to go together, but that's the way it was.

• Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Gilhooley?

  Marquis Andre de Lage : Gilhooley.

  Lelani Dedham : Oh, Uncle Guns, please don't fight, don't spoil our party.

  Sally Dedham : You stay out of it!

  Luki Dedham : Go on Uncle Guns. Knock his block off!

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : I'll knock both his blocks off.

• Ameilia Sarah Dedham : Say, I have a wonderful idea! How would you like to spend Christmas at my house?

  [as everyone stares at her, she suddenly realizes she had just committed a faux pas] 

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : You mean that would be better than putting up a Christmas tree in a saloon?

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : ...No. I... Well, naturally you would want to spend Christmas with your father.

  Lelani Dedham : Thank you, Amelia. I think it would be nice to spend Christmas in your father's house.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Well, that settles that... Father!

  [Cluseot] 

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : Not that way. That's a saloon. The gate.

• Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley : Hey, I got an idea. You know how I am when it comes to broads huh?

  Marquis Andre de Lage : Yes

  Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley : All right. So I meet her on the beach and invite her up here.

  Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : And then what?

  Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley : Then I slip her a Mickey.

• Michael Patrick 'Guns' Donovan : [oft repeated line]  Pax?