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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.
- Original title
- Reap the Wild Wind
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
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CinemaSerf
Jun 26, 2022 · via TMDB
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!
John Chard
May 16, 2020 · via TMDB
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
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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
Martha O'Driscoll
Ivy Devereaux
Elisabeth Risdon
Mrs. Claiborne
Hedda Hopper
Aunt Henrietta
Victor Kilian
Widgeon
Oscar Polk
Salt Meat
Janet Beecher
Mrs. Mottram
Ben Carter
Chinkapin
William 'Wee Willie' Davis
The Lamb
Lane Chandler
Sam
Davison Clark
Judge Marvin
Louis Merrill
Captain of the 'Pelican'
Frank M. Thomas
Dr. Jepson
Keith Richards
Captain Carruthers
Victor Varconi
Lubbock
J. Farrell MacDonald
Port Captain
Harry Woods
Mace
Raymond Hatton
Master Shipwright
Milburn Stone
Lieutenant Farragut
Tony Paton
Cadge
Barbara Britton
Charleston Lady #1
Julia Faye
Charleston Lady #2
Cecil B. DeMille
Prologue Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
Turnkey (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Ball Guest (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
Snaith (uncredited)
James Flavin
Girl's Father (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Bosco (uncredited)
Mildred Harris
Dancing Lady (uncredited)
Leota Lorraine
Ball Guest (uncredited)
Akim Tamiroff
The Lamb (uncredited) (voice)
Florence Wix
Ball Guest (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Bixby (uncredited)
Ynez Seabury
Ball Guest
Sam Comer
Set Decoration
Charles Gemora
Makeup Artist
Max Asher
Makeup Artist
Wally Westmore
Makeup Supervisor
Jeanie Macpherson
Additional Writing
Carl Mathews
Stunts
Chuck Hamilton
Stunts
Dale Van Sickel
Stunts
Frank Hagney
Stunts
Fred Graham
Stunts
George Magrill
Stunts
Gil Perkins
Stunts
Henry Wills
Stunts
Jimmy Dime
Stunts
Ray Spiker
Stunts
Ted Wells
Stunts
Cecil B. DeMille
Director
Anne Bauchens
Editor
William H. Pine
Associate Producer
Cecil B. DeMille
Producer
Walter Scharf
Orchestrator
Victor Young
Original Music Composer
Natalie Kalmus
Color Designer
Charles Bennett
Screenplay
Jesse Lasky Jr.
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