Reap the Wild Wind

Mar 26, 1942

1h 59m

★ 6.4

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

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.

Genres

Adventure

Action

Romance

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Loxi Claiborne

Paulette Goddard

Stephen Tolliver

Ray Milland

Captain Jack Stuart

John Wayne

King Cutler

Raymond Massey

Dan Cutler

Robert Preston

Captain Phillip Philpott

Lynne Overman

Drusilla Alston

Susan Hayward

Mate of the 'Tyfib'

Charles Bickford

Commodore Devereaux

Walter Hampden

Maum Maria

Louise Beavers

Ivy Devereaux

Martha O'Driscoll

Mrs. Claiborne

Elisabeth Risdon

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