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Reap the Wild Wind

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

6.3(66)19421h 59m3

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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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • shipwreck
  • florida keys
  • romantic rivalry
  • clipper ship
  • 19th century
  • key west
  • giant squid
  • scavengers

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNR18 Mar 1942
    • Theatrical26 Mar 1942
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical15 Jun 1942
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical21 May 1948
  • BelgiumBE

    • Theatrical27 May 1948
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical31 Jan 1947
  • FinlandFI

    • Theatrical11 Apr 1943
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1231 Oct 1947
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1216 Feb 1951
  • Hong KongHK

    • TheatricalIIA4 Aug 1949
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical27 Jul 1945
  • JapanJP

    • TheatricalPG-1214 Jul 1952
  • MexicoMX

    • Theatrical4 Jun 1942

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Reap the Wild Wind was released on 26 March 1942.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    5/16/2020

    7/10

    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 a…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    6/26/2022

    6/10

    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 impres…

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