Reap the Wild Wind

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Reap the Wild Wind
Poster reversing Wayne and Milland's billing
Directed by	Cecil B. DeMille
Screenplay by	Charles Bennett Jesse Lasky, Jr. Alan Le May Jeanie MacPherson
Based on	Reap the Wild Wind by Thelma Strabel
Produced by	Cecil B. DeMille
Starring	Ray Milland John Wayne Paulette Goddard
Cinematography	Victor Milner William Skall
Edited by	Anne Bauchens
Music by	Victor Young
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	March 18, 1942 (1942-03-18)
Running time	123 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$4 million (US/ Canada rentals) [1]

Reap the Wild Wind is a 1942 American adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard, with a supporting cast featuring Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Susan Hayward and Charles Bickford. DeMille's second Technicolor production, the film is based on a serialized story written by Thelma Strabel in 1940 for The Saturday Evening Post. The screenplay was written by Alan Le May (author of the novel The Searchers), Charles Bennett, Jesse Lasky, Jr. and Jeanie MacPherson.

While he based his film on Strabel's story, set in the 1840s along the Florida coast, DeMille took liberties with details such as sibling relationships and subplots, while staying true to the spirit of the story, which centers on the headstrong, independent woman portrayed by Goddard.

Released shortly after the United States' entry into World War II, Reap the Wild Wind was wildly successful at the box office and earned three Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Special Effects.