Trivia Donovan's Reef: In the beginning, Gilhooley tells the captain who "shanghai'd" him that they were supposed to be at the island "on the 7th". Taking into account the time-line of the movie, ending on Christmas, that would make Donovan (John Wayne) and Gilhooley's birthday as December 7th, the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Merry Christmas from Duke. He got a white Christmas for his first one.