Reap the Wild Wind

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6.6/10

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John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Lynne Overman, and Robert Preston in Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

Florida ship salvager, Loxi, falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.

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Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.

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6.6/10

3.6K

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Won 1 Oscar
- 2 wins & 2 nominations total

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Trivia
By all accounts, Cecil B. DeMille and John Wayne got along very well during the filming of this movie. (DeMille had considered Wayne for the role of Wild Bill Hickok in The Plainsman (1936), which went to Gary Cooper). DeMille admired Wayne's ability to improve his character and he liked him so much that he let him select his own costumes.

Goofs
Incorrectly regarded as a goof: John Wayne's reference to Mother Carey's Chickens has nothing to do with Kate Douglas Wiggins 1911 novel. It is a seafaring name for the Storm Petrel, so-called because the birds appear before a storm. Mother Carey is a corruption of Mater Cara (Dear Mother), an epithet of the Virgin Mary, to whom Portuguese and Spanish sailors used to pray before a storm.

Quotes
Loxi: [rehearsing] Of course, Commodore Devereaux, you need a mighty experienced captain to navigate a fine ship like the Southern Cross - steam and all that!
Maum Maria: That ain't got no elegance. You's in Charleston. Ladies don't tell gentlemens, they asks 'em!

Connections
Edited into Catalogue of Ships (2008)

Soundtracks
Sea Chantey (The Nellie B)
(1942) (uncredited)
Written by Victor Young
Lyrics Frank Loesser
Played during the opening credits and often as background music
Sung a cappella by Lynne Overman
Played on piano and sung by Paulette Goddard

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8/10

"Wreck Ashore!!"

Yet another star-studded box office hit few people have today even heard of. (Years later Raymond Massey remembered so little of this film that when he observed to John Wayne they ought to do a movie together it fell to Wayne to remind him that they already had.)

By the time he made this Cecil B. DeMille was leaving all the location work in the hands of second unit director Arthur Rosson and the scenes at sea are otherwise achieved with obvious models (although the giant squid is memorable enough for the film to collect its one Oscar, for special effects).

No matter. It doesn't take itself too seriously, and with a cast like that burnished with plush costume design and interior decor in sumptuous Technicolor it's an agreeable way to squander a couple of hours.