Donovan's Reef (1963)

Elizabeth Allen: Amelia Dedham

Photos 

Quotes 

• 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 : 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?

• Marquis Andre de Lage : If I may venture a suggestion. A scenic drive? A chilled apertif? I have a picnic basket. I'd be delighted...

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : Well, that's very kind of you, your... Excellency. But I have promised to take Luki home this morning.

  Luki Dedham : Knock it off Uncle Andy! Quit trying to horn in on my date.

• 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.

• 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.

• Ameilia Sarah Dedham : Kennedys will be furious.

• Ameilia Sarah Dedham : [in a store]  Good Morning, Miss Lafleur. My, what a beautiful gown. Are you contemplating matrimony?

  Miss Lafleur : [with yearning]  What young girl of my age doesn't contemplate matrimony?

  Ameilia Sarah Dedham : How true.