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Reap the Wild Wind

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

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.

Release Date : 1942-03-26

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Paramount Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : Cecil B. De Mille's Reap the Wild Wind

Cast

Character Name : Loxi Claiborne

Original Name : Paulette Goddard

Gender : Female

Character Name : Stephen Tolliver

Original Name : Ray Milland

Gender : Male

Character Name : Captain Jack Stuart

Original Name : John Wayne

Gender : Male

Character Name : King Cutler

Original Name : Raymond Massey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dan Cutler

Original Name : Robert Preston

Gender : Male

Character Name : Captain Phillip Philpott

Original Name : Lynne Overman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Drusilla Alston

Original Name : Susan Hayward

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mate of the 'Tyfib'

Original Name : Charles Bickford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Commodore Devereaux

Original Name : Walter Hampden

Gender : Male

Character Name : Maum Maria

Original Name : Louise Beavers

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ivy Devereaux

Original Name : Martha O'Driscoll

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs. Claiborne

Original Name : Elisabeth Risdon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Aunt Henrietta

Original Name : Hedda Hopper

Gender : Female

Character Name : Widgeon

Original Name : Victor Kilian

Gender : Male

Character Name : Salt Meat

Original Name : Oscar Polk

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Mottram

Original Name : Janet Beecher

Gender : Female

Character Name : Chinkapin

Original Name : Ben Carter

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Lamb

Original Name : William 'Wee Willie' Davis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sam

Original Name : Lane Chandler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Judge Marvin

Original Name : Davison Clark

Gender : Male

Character Name : Captain of the 'Pelican'

Original Name : Louis Merrill

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Jepson

Original Name : Frank M. Thomas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Captain Carruthers

Original Name : Keith Richards

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lubbock

Original Name : Victor Varconi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Port Captain

Original Name : J. Farrell MacDonald

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mace

Original Name : Harry Woods

Gender : Male

Character Name : Master Shipwright

Original Name : Raymond Hatton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lieutenant Farragut

Original Name : Milburn Stone

Gender : Male

Character Name : 'Claiborne' Lookout

Original Name : Dave Wengren

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cadge

Original Name : Tony Paton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Charleston Lady #1

Original Name : Barbara Britton

Gender : Female

Character Name : Charleston Lady #2

Original Name : Julia Faye

Gender : Female

Character Name : Charleston Lady #3

Original Name : Ameda Lambert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Charleston Beau #1

Original Name : D'Arcy Miller

Gender : Male

Character Name : Charleston Beau #2

Original Name : Bruce Warren

Gender : Male

Character Name : Prologue Speaker (voice) (uncredited)

Original Name : Cecil B. DeMille

Gender : Male

Character Name : Turnkey (uncredited)

Original Name : Stanley Andrews

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ball Guest (uncredited)

Original Name : Gertrude Astor

Gender : Female

Character Name : Snaith (uncredited)

Original Name : Frank Ferguson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Girl's Father (uncredited)

Original Name : James Flavin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bosco (uncredited)

Original Name : Chuck Hamilton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dancing Lady (uncredited)

Original Name : Mildred Harris

Gender : Female

Character Name : Tea Guest (uncredited)

Original Name : Sam Harris

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ball Guest (uncredited)

Original Name : Leota Lorraine

Gender : Female

Character Name : The Lamb (uncredited) (voice)

Original Name : Akim Tamiroff

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ball Guest (uncredited)

Original Name : Florence Wix

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bixby (uncredited)

Original Name : Byron Foulger

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

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... Whilst not up with the best of DeMille's epics, this is however a joyous romp of a high seas adventure. A top notch cast line up for some period flavours that is unfurled in glorious over saturated Technicolor. We have a rocky love triangle, dastardly villains with dishonesty poring from every bead of sweat, sword play, fisticuffs, fogs and a giant squid! and it even has time to be a court room drama as well. In short it is a ripping sea faring yarn. The budget was considerable and DeMille ensures it was lavishly spent, and thus the pic was a box office winner and an Academy Award Winner for special effects. It's a touch too long, and gets a little bogged down in the mid-section, but entering the home straight it pulls itself back up and ends briskly, with Duke Wayne splendidly rounding off an interesting characterisation. 7/10

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-06-26

The last twenty minutes or so go some way to redeeming this otherwise rather meandering romantic drama that has a cast that looks good on paper but is much less effective on screen. John Wayne ("Jack Stuart") is the captain who has just lost his ship after it was wrecked on a dangerous reef by men allegedly working for Raymond Massey ("King Cutler"). His boss Walter Hampden ("Commodore Devereaux") is less than impressed and Duke is demoted and ordered to take Ray Milland ("Tolliver") to Key West. Meantime, the feisty Paulette Goddard ("Loxi") who is all but engaged to "Stuart" arrives on the scene and straight onto Milland's radar... Now Wayne has got to prove his ship was deliberately sunk and keep his girl from his duplicitous rival. The story is pretty procedural and lame, to be honest - Goddard brings some charm to the film, but Milland (and his ventriloquist doggy act) gets a bit wearisome after a while and neither Wayne nor the usually sinister Massey are anywhere near their best. It features some good underwater antics towards the conclusion but the story is just a bit too weak and predictable. Colourful, though...and it's got a monkey!