Reap the Wild Wind

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Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

NR 03/26/1942 (US) Adventure, Action, Romance 1h 59m

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Cecil B. DeMille's GREATEST TRIUMPH! OUT-THRILLS ALL OTHER SCREEN SPECTACLES!

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The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.

Cecil B. DeMille

Director
Alan Le May

Screenplay
Charles Bennett

Screenplay
Jesse Lasky Jr.

Screenplay
Thelma Strabel

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Paulette Goddard

Loxi Claiborne
Ray Milland

Stephen Tolliver
John Wayne

Captain Jack Stuart
Raymond Massey

King Cutler
Robert Preston

Dan Cutler
Lynne Overman

Captain Phillip Philpott
Susan Hayward

Drusilla Alston
Charles Bickford

Mate of the 'Tyfib'
Walter Hampden

Commodore Devereaux
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A review by John Chard

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Written by John Chard on May 16, 2020

Ripping Yarns!

Reap the Wild Wind is directed by Cecil B. DeMille and is adapted collectively to screenplay by Alan Le May, Charles Bennett and Jesse Lasky Jr. from a Saturday Evening Post story written by Thelma Strabel. It stars John Wayne, Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward and Lynne Overman. Music is by Victor Young and cinematography is shared between Victor Milner and William V. Skall.

The Florida Keys in the 1840s, hurricanes are rife and the salvagers of Key West rush to the frail schooners to claim salvage rights...

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