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Cecil B. DeMille's GREATEST TRIUMPH! OUT-THRILLS ALL OTHER SCREEN SPECTACLES! - Reap the Wild Wind
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Title: Reap the Wild Wind

Release Date: 26 Mar 1942

Runtime: 1h 59m

Genre: Adventure, Action, Romance

Director: Paramount Pictures

Production Companies: Paramount Pictures

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.

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Average Vote: 6.4 (51 votes)

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
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