Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1942-03-26) |
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| Awards: | Won 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 2 nominations total |
| Screen: | Alan Le May, Charles Bennett, Jesse Lasky Jr. |
| Productions: | Paramount Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 14027: Paulette Goddard - Loxi Claiborne
- 7124: Ray Milland - Stephen Tolliver
- 4165: John Wayne - Captain Jack Stuart
- 2669: Raymond Massey - King Cutler
- 40202: Robert Preston - Dan Cutler
- 102064: Lynne Overman - Captain Phillip Philpott
- 30124: Susan Hayward - Drusilla Alston
Crews
- 27919: Jesse Lasky Jr. - Screenplay - Writing
- 8636: Cecil B. DeMille - Director - Directing
- 3599: Charles Bennett - Screenplay - Writing
- 30548: Alan Le May - Screenplay - Writing
- 130213: Thelma Strabel - Story - Writing
- 47077: Roland Anderson - Art Direction - Art
- 89927: William H. Pine - Associate Producer - Production
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Reviews
John Chard
Review text:
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, Raymon ....
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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 dangero ....
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