Reap the Wild Wind
Reap the Wild Wind is a 1942 American adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard, with a supporting cast featuring Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Susan Hayward and Charles Bickford. DeMille's second Technicolor production, the film is based on a serialized story written by Thelma Strabel in 1940 for The Saturday Evening Post. The screenplay was written by Alan Le May (author of the novel The Searchers), Charles Bennett, Jesse Lasky, Jr. and Jeanie MacPherson.
Plot
In 1840, Loxi Claiborne is running a marine salvage business started by her deceased father. A hurricane is passing through the Key West area, leaving behind at least one wreck on the nearby shoals. The Jubilee founders, and Loxi and other salvagers race to claim the cargo. Not arriving first, Loxi and her crew rescue the captain, Jack Stuart, but do not share in the salvage rights. Apparently, the first salvager on the scene, King Cutler, may have actually planned the wreck.
Awards
Cast
- Akim Tamiroff
- Byron Foulger
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Charles Bickford
- Charles K. French
- Claire McDowell
- Dorothy Sebastian
- Elisabeth Risdon
- Elmo Lincoln
- Emmett King
- George Melford
- Gertrude Astor
- Harry Woods
- Hedda Hopper
- J. Farrell MacDonald
- James Anderson
- James Flavin
- Janet Beecher
- John Wayne
- Julia Faye
- Lane Chandler
- Louise Beavers
- Lynne Overman
- Martha O'Driscoll
- Maurice Costello
- Milburn Stone
- Mildred Harris
- Monte Blue
- Nestor Paiva
- Oscar Polk
- Paulette Goddard
- Ray Milland
- Raymond Hatton
- Raymond Massey
- Robert Preston
- Susan Hayward
- Victor Kilian
- Victor Varconi
- Walter Hampden
- William Haade
More details
| author | Alan Le May Charles Bennett Jeanie MacPherson Jesse Louis Lasky Jr. |
|---|---|
| award | Academy Award for Best Special Effects |
| contentLocation | Florida |
| director | Cecil B. DeMille |
| editor | Anne Bauchens |
| events | seamanship |
| genre | adventure drama |
| keywords | attack captain jack continental shelf dive drown florida keys giant squid havana hurricane key key west kill marine salvage pass pirate reef rescue run sailing ship shanghai ship shipping line shoal steamship underwater diving whaler |
| musicBy | Victor Young |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color Academy Award for Best Special Effects |
| producer | Cecil B. DeMille |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Santa Monica |