HILARIOUS MATRYOSHKA

JOHN WAYNE — DONOVAN’S REEF — 1963

POLYNESIAN MATRYOSHKA

This film is full of folkloric elements from Polynesia in the South Pacific, on one small island, a natural paradise. At the same time, it is funny by bringing a woman who was born and raised in the narrow-minded, straight ethics of Boston, New England, into her father’s environment there. He left his family in Boston very early, so that his daughter did not know him. Her grandfather leaves behind a heritage of US$18 million to go to her father. But she must go to this Polynesian island, and she must bring back the proof that he has always abided by the standard Boston Ethics.

Michael Patrick ‘Guns’ Donovan takes care of her when she arrives, but he had to move the three children of the father, Dr. William Dedham, because the Doctor got these children from a local princess on the island, a Polynesian princess, and all of them were absolutely out of wedlock. Racism and religious fundamentalism. The season is Christmas in this island that is a French colony, hence Catholic, and the priest is a benevolent man who knows God tells him to be empathetic and tolerant. Yet he will go along with the lie. And that God can strike you with lightning if you use his name in vain.