This ramshackle but immensely enjoyable romp from John Ford was, sadly, the last teaming of the great director and his friend John Wayne. Both deserved a better farewell. In a knockabout tale, Elizabeth Allen co-stars as the prim Bostonian whose presence on a Pacific island disturbs the drinking and brawling lifestyle of the Duke and his navy buddy, Lee Marvin, and her dark beauty illuminates the film. There's a seasonal touch involving Dorothy Lamour and a children's Christmas, which some may find oversentimental, and really the only true merit in the whole ragged adventure is the Technicolor photography of veteran William Clothier.

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.