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Reap the Wild Wind | |
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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 |
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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.