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reap the wild wind
... or don' t: cecil b. demille, the evolving neo - naturalist
reap the wild wind
... or don' t: cecil b. demille, the evolving neo - naturalist on notebook | mubi
reap the wild wind is a melodrama of atlantic coastal shipping in the windjammer days, 100 years ago. it is a film possessing the spectacular sweep of colorful backgrounds which characterize the cecil demille type of screen entertainment .
reap the wild wind is a melodrama of atlantic coastal shipping in the windjammer days, 100 years ago. it is a film possessing the spectacular sweep of colorful backgrounds which characterize the cecil demille type of screen entertainment. after a short foreword by demille, the picture opens with scenes of a hurricane, shipwreck and struggle [ … ]
reap the wild wind (john wayne) [ dvd ]: urltoken john wayne, ray milland, susan hayward, paulette goddard, raymond massey, robert preston, charles bickford, walter hampden, janet beecher, elizabeth risdon, cecil b. de mille, alan lemay, charles bennett, jesse lasky jr: dvd & blu - ray
1934’s four frightened people begins similarly (though in modern time) on a series of untouched vistas, which transition to yet another ship—this one in the throes of a plague epidemic. we cut to a small life boat on which (you guessed it) four passengers attempt to flee disease for the safety of a nearby malayan island. the four, judy (claudette colbert), arnold (herbert marshall), mrs. mardick (mary boland) and stewart (william gargan) enter the natural world as caricatures each representing the superficial extremes of human behavior (i. e. meek, masculine, stubborn, etc .). they seek out nature as refuge from the frailties of the human body (the plague). this view of nature sharply contrasts that of reap the wild wind. here the characters seek comfort in the wild rather than run from it in a salvage ship .
, author charles higham wrote that
john wayne was extremely ill - at - ease about acting in a demille picture; he did not relish being shouted at on the set. he had applied for the role of wild bill hickok in
the giant rubber squid used in the underwater battle was donated by the studio to the war effort in 1942. the japanese had conquered malaya and indochina, source of most of the world' s rubber .
roughly two thirds into reap the wild wind the drama shifts in a metaphorical sense from the body to the mind as demille transitions from the perils of the sea to the court of law. it is here that jack, removed from his usual surroundings, begins to lose ground in his battle for loxi' s affections. jack has found himself accused of intentionally running his ship aground, and through some manipulation of narrative convolution, also of the unintentional murder of loxi' s cousin, drusilla (who was stowed away in the ship' s hull during the wreck). as a result, both jack and steve are forced to dive to the bottom of the ocean to retrieve proof of drusilla' s death, and it is when the camera becomes submerged that the control over the fates of these two men is returned to nature. while exploring the wreckage the pair are attacked by a giant squid. the moment is meant to be tense, but it is hard to ascribe any sense of malice to the squid. it is merely seizing an opportunity without any prior knowledge of jack and steve as they exist on the surface world. it is the squid that alludes back to nature' s lack of sympathy towards humanity. the fact that it is steve and not jack who survives the attack comes across as entirely arbitrary. steve' s triumph could be seen as an easy parallel for the triumph of a new, more civilized way of living, yet in this context it is a triumph by way of compromise (the sacrifice of jack). civilization lives alongside nature as a series of concessions .
in 1940, the motley crew of the british tramp steamer ss glencairn prepares the ship for its perilous voyage from the west indies to baltimore and then to england .
the movie is unusual in that it shows john wayne playing a less than scrupulously honest character. it is also one of only eleven movies in which wayne' s character dies. paulette goddard got her part after narrowly missing out on the scarlett o' hara role in' gone with the wind'. the movie is also notable for the final appearance by hedda hopper as an actress in a major role .
in 1840, ships are the international link to commerce for the united states, but their cargo is being jeopardized by the
salvage profiteers
who loiter in the florida keys waiting for hurricanes to dash the ships against the rocks. during one such storm, mathias widgeon, first mate of the
florid, over the top de mille epic, is there any other kind? the technicolor is vivid, the costumes are beautiful and the acting is enjoyably over the top, with the exception of susan hayward who, honey chile accent notwithstanding, gives a sweet, real performance amongst all the scenery chewing .
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files in the paramount collection at the ampas library provide the following additional information about the film: expenses on this film rose far over the original budget, and concerned production executives urged all department heads
to make cuts wherever possible .
particularly difficult and expensive to shoot was the scene with the giant octopus. information in the files and an article in
the third film following this theme, the earlier this day and age is where the divergence seen in four frightened people begins to clarify itself. notable is that this film is set solely in an urban environment with no literal interaction with the natural world. the story is a crime drama in which a gang of high school students enact vigilante justice against gangster louis garrett (charles bickford) for the murder of a fellow student by holding a kangaroo court in an abandoned brickyard. this act is born out of necessity due to the failure of the traditional court system to convict. the students operate outside of the principles of societal law and as such serve as an analog for the laws of the nature. furthermore, they are attempting to enact justice based on simple principles of right and wrong, and thus they are without question an entity guided by a moral center. this day and age isdemille' s full subversion of the naturalism found later in reap the wild wind, but it is not a subversion through negation. rather, this day and age imbues nature with a sense of duality in which both versions can coexist on the same cinematic landscape. humanity is then contextualized in this landscape as the other half of a binary, never in harmonic symbiosis; as exemplified in the final scene of this day and age in which two teenagers, after being celebrated for their heroics, are approached by a police officer about a car they stole in order to bring garrett to justice .
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scenes. demille also used the
little old new york
set at the twentieth century - fox lot, the water tank at the united artists studio, which had to be enlarged to shoot the ship sequences, and the
old hawks' tank
and
the water way
at the columbia ranch in burbank, ca. the film went $ 250, 000 over budget. according to an article in
when king cutler shoots his brother near the end of the film, he uses a revolver, a weapon not produced until the next decade .
clipper ships taking the shortest route between the mississippi and the atlantic often end up on the shoals of key west in the 1840s. salvaging the ships' cargos has become a lucrative business for two companies - - one headed by a feisty young woman. then she falls in love with the captain of a wrecked ship while he recuperates at her home. she travels to charleston and is charming to the man most likely to be head of the captain' s company, thinking she will be able to get the captain the position he wants on the company' s first steam ship .
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clipper ships taking the shortest route between the mississippi and the atlantic often end up on the shoals of key west in the 1840s. salvaging the ships' cargos has become a lucrative business for two companies - - one headed by a feisty young woman. then she falls in love with the captain of a wrecked ship while he recuperates at her home. she travels to charleston and is charming to the man most likely to be head of the captain' s company, thinking she will be able to get the captain the position he wants on the company' s first steam ship. written by dale o' connor
along the seaboard of the american south during the 1840s, cut - throat salvagers who profit from the wrecks of transatlantic cargo ships move from exploiting shipwrecks to causing them. as the most dangerous of the salvagers, king cutler (raymond massey), takes aim at the ships of the wealthy devereaux company, ambitious ship captain jack stuart (john wayne) and company lawyer stephen tolliver (ray milland) vie for the hand of feisty loxi claiborne (paulette goddard) .
in 1840, america' s line life is the sea, with an intense commerce. in key west shore, two ship salvage companies dispute the wrecked vessels. the honest one belongs to the impulsive loxi claiborne and capt. phil philpott and the other one is owned by the unscrupulous pirate king cutler. while rescuing the crew of the ship
julliete
, wrecked on the reeves by the first mate mathias widgeon, loxi falls in love for captain jack stuart. she travels to charleston to defend jack and convince the ship owner to give the position of captain of the new steamship of the company, manipulating the powerful shipping company lawyer steve tolliver (ray milland), who also falls in love for her. this triangle of love leads jack stuart to bad and fatal choices .
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, and an angry jack makes a deal with cutler to wreck the steamship for his salvage operation. stephen suspects the scheme when he sees that prices for the
“i once complained to mr. demille that he never used me in his pictures. this was after i had become a columnist. ‘i didn’t think you wanted to act any longer, ’ he said. “‘oh, come on, ’ i said. ‘when did i ever stop? ’ “so he gave me a small part in reap the wild wind. i had to faint in it. i had never done that either off stage or on. i took lessons from ethel barrymore and laura hope crews. i was fainting all over hollywood until the day i was to do the scene. “i fainted. mr. demille said, ‘that’s that. next scene. ’ “‘what? ’ i screamed. ‘i only get one take? i rehearsed this for three weeks! ’ “‘you couldn’t do any better if you did it fifty times, ’ he said. ‘that hoop skirt allows you to fall in only one direction. backwards. next scene! ’”
“it is a film possessing the spectacular sweep of colorful backgrounds which characterize the cecil demille type of screen entertainment. the production is a visual triumph. ” – variety
indicates that underwater sequences were filmed at the pacific marine museum in malibu, ca, although modern sources suggest that the scene with the giant octopus was filmed in a tank at the paramount studios. according to an article in
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the owner of a 19th - century salvage company falls in love with a captain she rescues from a shipwreck, and helps him prove in court that the vessel' s sinking was not his fault. however, the lawyer hired to plead the case also falls for the salvager, and the rivalry drives the captain into an alliance with a ruthless pirate. romantic adventure, starring john wayne and paulette goddard .
in 1759, in pennsylvania' s allegheny valley, local settlers and indian fighters try to persuade the british authorities to ban the trading of alcohol and arms with the marauding indians .
the production is a visual triumph. some of the marine scenes are breathtaking. there is skillful blending of process photography .
the final portion of this criticism is a visual text in which demille succeeds in reconciling his binary. with his use of dissolves in these films the director places us, if only for a moment, between two planes of existence, and it is here that the paradox rectifies itself by allowing the images to be accepted astride the natural and the human, divorced of ideology .
the movie was enthusiastically received both by the critics and by the public and was nominated for three academy awards, winning the oscar for best visual effects and losing out for best art direction (hans dreier, roland anderson, george sawley) and best cinematography .
according to modern sources, maurice costello and elmo lincoln appear in the film. news items further report that frank loesser was signed to write the picture' s theme song and sigmund krumgold was to write the music score, but neither was credited on the film .
which posed problems were the shipwreck and shots of the vividly colored underwater kelp. for the former, demille wanted to simultaneously capture the shipwreck, the churning sea, and the stormy sky in the same shot. this was accomplished by shooting the segments separately and then projecting them on three different projectors with fused quartz lenses onto a background where the movements were synchronized. for the kelp, demille used yards and yards of iridescent silk that would weave about in the ocean depths. unfortunately, the color of silk changes in sea water so demille' s production team, headed by cinematographer victor milner, had to use fresh silk every day, then dry it out, and have it dyed back to its original shade for reuse. needless to say, the sequence took a month to photograph but due to such painstaking detail, milner' s cinematography received an oscar nomination that year .
, fish and lobster were culled from the pacific ocean in malibu with the permission of the california fish and game commission, and were used to stock the tanks. other scenes were shot on location in charleston, sc, and in miami, key west and new iberia, fl .
during the 1860s in the south pacific, capt. ralls, skipper of the red witch, has a series of adventures involving sunken gold bullion, pearls, natives, an unscrupulous ship owner and a giant octopus .
in 1938. he also planned on using a live octopus for the sequence where ray milland is attacked underwater. but he ended up settling for a huge mechanical squid, which was operated by a twenty - four button electrical keyboard with a complex system of hydraulic pistons used to activate the thirty - foot tentacles of the squid. while filming the sequence, demille communicated by a loudspeaker to direct the technicians in the movement of the creature while at the same time barking orders to milland and john wayne underwater through telephone wires in their helmets (wayne would later battle another underwater sea creature in
key west in 1940 plays host to a thriving salvage business based on the many wrecks of ships found in the vicinity. always first on the scene is king cutler (raymond massey), arousing the suspicions of ship owner loxi claiborne (paulette goddard). loxi' s suitor, captain jack stuart (john wayne), is also implicated in the scam, thanks to the accusations of lawyer steve tolliver (raymond milland), who wants loxi for himself .
a c - 47 transport plane, named the corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of labrador, and the plane' s pilot, captain dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue .
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two sailors vie for the affections of a southern temptress while fighting off pirates .
weren' t you? a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then .
) when he was offered the role played by preston foster in
marked the last time that hopper appeared onscreen as a character other than herself .
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, which is owned by the devereaux company, knocks out captain jack stuart and purposely crashes the three - master. loxi claiborne, a tomboy who runs an honest salvage business, takes her boat out to the site of the wreck with her pal, captain phillip philpott, but king cutler and his brother dan, renowned cutthroats who contracted widgeon to wreck the ship, get there first. loxi stays on hand and rescues the unconscious jack, taking him to her home to convalesce. they soon fall in love, and loxi is inspired by jack' s dream of commanding the
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towards the end, however, the action quickens. there is a unique filming of an undersea battle between a giant squid, of octopus descent, and the two male protagonists. despite its obvious make - believe, it is shrewd filming, realistic and thrilling .
“the apogee of his art and as jam - full a motion picture as has ever played two hours upon a screen. it definitely marks a demillestone. it is the master turned loose, with no holds barred. ” – bosley crowther, the new york times
news items provide the following information about the production: among the actors considered for lead roles in this film were john barrymore, james stewart, rex harrison, william boyd, claudette colbert, tallulah bankhead and katharine hepburn. susan hayward tested for the role of
loxi
and was originally cast as
ivy devereaux ,
before being cast as
drusilla .
cecil b. demille' s son richard was scheduled to make his screen debut in this film, but his appearance in the final film has not been confirmed. actor morris ankrum was replaced by charles bickford in the role of
mate of the
sets sail, stephen and loxi take a different ship to florida. later, however, loxi and jack come to stephen' s aid when king cutler sells stephen to a whaler as a common sailor and sends his thugs, led by the lamb, to shanghai him. instead, after a struggle, stephen sells the thugs to the whaler. in stephen' s jacket, loxi finds devereaux' s orders giving jack the captaincy of the
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after a short foreword by demille, the picture opens with scenes of a hurricane, shipwreck and struggle for bounty among the salvage workers. this melodramatic tempo is too swift to be maintained. various angles of plot and contest necessarily must be introduced. the pacing is uneven .
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( 1942), a typically lavish cecil b. demille production which established ray milland as a popular leading man (he would win the oscar three years later for his performance as the alcoholic writer in
came along, firmly offered him the part .
the only reason you called me here is to make ray milland look like a man ,
wayne said .
that' s right ,
demille replied. after some wrangling, wayne accepted the role, and they became good friends .
. at the court trial, king steers suspicion toward stephen, and it is revealed that loxi' s cousin drusilla, who had been having a secret love affair with dan, may have stowed aboard the steamship and died when the ship sank. the court is reconvened at the site of the wreck, and jack and stephen go underwater in diving suits to the shipwreck. they find drusilla' s corpse, but instead of killing stephen as ordered by king, jack rescues him from the grips of a deadly giant octopus. stephen is unable to save jack' s life, however, and when he is pulled up, he displays drusilla' s shawl. dan confronts his brother, who shoots him, and captain phil kills king. their deaths free stephen, and he and loxi return to charleston together .
' s cargo are unusually low, and he and captain phil commandeer loxi' s ship to sail to havana and stop the steamship. loxi refuses to believe that jack would sell out and sabotages her own ship so they do not reach havana. instead, they drift in a deep fog until they near the reef where cutler' s ship is lurking, and are on hand to witness the purposeful sinking of the
“josef von sternberg opts for a broad, preposterous comic - book style in this piece of cold - war hysteria, which completely undermines the neanderthal intentions of the film’s producer, howard hughes. janet leigh is a busty russian spy pilot, shot down over the u. s. (her flying suit striptease, punctuated by the roar of offscreen jet engines, is unforgettably outrageous) …” – dave kehr, chicago reader
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, and eventually leads to tragedy .
the character salt meat is introduced as a barbados sailor, but he speaks with an american southern accent .
another edition, same catalog #, has an embossed cover, with the architectural structures in relief. the promo copy also shares the same cat # and tracklisting. there is no remix title for a, but it does differ from the album version and is known as
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, a story about the virgin mary, but was unable to resolve numerous script problems. instead, he decided to make a movie about shipwrecks and deep - sea diving based on a serial by thelma strabel that had appeared in the
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, and eventually leads to... see more »
, an old rustbucket, on the condition that jack be sent ashore in florida upon its arrival there until stephen can prove his innocence. loxi is the last to learn that stephen has gotten her aunt' s permission to marry her and publicly rejects him. stephen, who has no intention of losing her, interrupts her hasty wedding to jack aboard the
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the plot concerns a love triangle set in the florida keys in the 1840' s where piracy reigns. a rare female ship salvager, played by paulette goddard, falls in love with a ship' s captain, played by john wayne, and faces an unscrupulous rival (raymond massey) who may be sabotaging ships. near the end there is a highly unlikely, but nevertheless, spectacular and utterly riveting underwater battle in which a giant squid kills john wayne, thereby allowing ray milland to eventually win goddard .
reported that artist dan sayre groesback was set to design scenes for the picture, as he reportedly had for other demille films, and that english poet laureate john masefield was to work on the film, but their contributions to this film have not been verified .
, 1945) and won an oscar for best visual effects. the story, which is set in the florida keys, pits loxi claiborne (paulette goddard), the owner of a ship salvage operation, against the dishonest cutler brothers (raymond massey, robert preston) who are suspected of causing schooners to wreck just so they can salvage them. joining forces with loxi temporarily are captain jack stuart (john wayne) and stephen tolliver (ray milland), a charleston lawyer investigating a recent ship salvage. as expected, stuart and tolliver soon become rivals for loxi' s affections and their conflict sets the stage for a tragic turn of events .
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“at advanced admissions this broke three records, biggest gross at these admissions, biggest saturday in history, and biggest two - day business. well worth considering, even in small towns. we had decided to pass it by, but when other exhibitors told us how they did, we could no longer ignore the signal that here was one of the big - money pictures of the season. ”
after thirty years of making motion pictures, cecil b. de mille has pretty well learned the trade. he has learned that the camera has no motive unless there is plenty of movement in front of it; that drama, reduced to essentials, is just two strong men contending for a maid and, lately, that technicolor is the dish for serving lavish spectacle. view full article in timesmachine »
, and she and jack wrongly assume that stephen planned to withhold this news from jack. jack then confronts king, who informs him that devereaux has died and stephen is now head of the shipping company. king convinces jack that stephen will never allow him to command the
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an example can be found in the final scene in which loxi has shed her sweater and sailor' s beanie for a hoop skirt and parasol. with this, she is permitted to float lazily down the river with (her now husband) steve. the same is true in four frightened people, although the concession is more an assimilation. it is only when the four lose their clothes and learn to hunt that they are afforded comfort. even when they return to civilization, they are only able to find happiness when they permit themselves to act on impulse. indeed, that film ends with arnold abruptly leaving his wife to pursue judy. with these conclusions demille manufactures logic that in both of these films reminds us that for all of our perceived conquest over the natural world, we are merely existing because nature has allowed it .
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in conjunction with a celebration of its thirtieth year in business and cecil b. demille' s thirtieth year in films at the newly renovated el capitan theatre on hollywood blvd. in los angeles, ca. the theatre, renamed the paramount hollywood theatre, was remodeled by noted los angeles architect w. l. pereira, who is credited with special photographic effects in this film, and hal pereira, and was described in a contemporary
in 1840, there' s work on the florida keys for honest salvagers (like the claibornes) and outright pirates like king cutler, who bribes sailors to cause wrecks. when capt. stuart' s ship is wrecked, loxi claiborne rescues him, falls for him, and travels to charleston to convince the owners the wreck wasn' t his fault; company lawyer steve tolliver returns with them to key west to investigate. tolliver and stuart' s rivalry for loxi' s hand complicates their swashbuckling adventures in pursuit of cutler, ending in a trial and a dangerous dive for evidence .
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demille adventure about 19th century ocean salvagers in the american south who become involved in a love triangle. highlighted by a battle with a giant squid !
review: this memorable cecil b. demille high seas epic sports a topnotch cast and glorious technicolor photography, not to mention a giant red squid. set in the 1840s, when tall ships were being replaced by steam engines, the film opens as goddard, a tough and ind… (more )
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. see more »
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i haven' t watched many john wayne films on dvd, mostly growing up and seeing them on tv, so this is a first. i don' t think that the duke was the main actor in this movie, think ray miland was billed as top actor, but as the duke rose to stardom, i think things changed. this is a technicolor classic, and i still say that technicolor was way ahead of its time and looks so much brighter then anything we have today. john wayne plays captain jack stuart pretty much a washed up ships captain because of sabotage within his own crew, but he falls in love with susan hayward who brings out the best in any man. a true sea worthy adventure. good classic to add to the collection, but only 3 stars .
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along the florida keys, loxi claiborne runs a ship salvage business, rivalled only by the unscrupulous king cutler. loxi rescues and falls in love with jack stuart, who comes to believe that his rival for loxi, stephen tolliver, has sabotaged his chance at a new ship. mistaken but vengeful, stuart joins forces with cutler with tragic results .
from 27 april to june 1, 1940. the foreword in strabel' s novel, as published in 1942, was written by director / producer cecil b. demille .
, the devereaux company' s first steamship. jack believes that devereaux lawyer stephen tolliver will prevent him from a promotion because of this latest wreck, and when loxi travels to charleston, south carolina, to visit with her aunt henrietta, she meets stephen. loxi flirts with the lawyer in hopes of swaying his opinion. stephen, who has always intended to defend jack to his employer, genuinely falls in love with loxi, although he is unaware of her ulterior motives. stephen insists that commodore devereaux send him to discover the
“strange to say, manhattan’s film reviewers are among mr. demille’s enthusiasts. for years they have condescendingly panned his pictures and dismissed his box - office record. but this technicolored hoking up of thelma strabel’s novel is apparently to their taste. one wonders. to some of us, the maestro’s florid films have always been justified by their elementally human characters. they achieve drama through action, not talk. in other words, they belong in the movies. there isn’t anyone like demille, the only veteran of pioneer movies to survive intact. ”
is a dramatic adventure film made in 1942, directed by cecil b. de mille and starring john wayne, ray milland, paulette goddard and susan hayward. it is a swashbuckling naval adventure, full of spectacle and excitement, set in the mid - nineteenth century and based on a serialized story written by thelma strabel and published in the saturday evening post in 1940 .
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he had told demille' s emissary :
just tell mr. demille too much water has flowed under the bridge for me to want that role .
demille was provoked, and when
this memorable cecil b. demille high seas epic sports a topnotch cast and glorious technicolor photography, not to mention a giant red squid. set in the 1840s, when tall ships were being replaced by steam engines, the film opens as goddard, a tough and independent salvage - schooner owner, ventures her ship into a hurricane to save wayne, whose ship has been... read more
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. this film was hailed by reviewers for its technical achievements and won an academy award in the category of special effects (farciot edouart, gordon jennings, william l. pereira and louis mesenkop). it was nominated for academy awards in the following categories: cinematography (color), victor milner and william v. skall; and art direction / interior decoration (color), hans dreier and roland anderson, george sawley. ray milland and paulette goddard reprised their roles in a
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“cecil b. demille automatically lifts his megaphone (his time - honored weapon of verbal attack) to address walter hampden and raymond massey, who are standing all of ten feet away. paulette goddard, fanning furiously to offset the heat, says, ‘if this set had one of those famous demille bathtubs, i’d be in it. ’ to which a furtive - voiced male extra replies, ‘and i’d stick around. ’”
producer - director: cecil b. demille screenwriters: charles bennett, jesse lasky jr. , alan lemay source: the thelma strabel serial additional writer: jeanie macpherson art directors: hans dreier, roland anderson, dan sayre groesbeck costumers: joe de yong, natalie visart cinematographers: victor milner, william v. skall underwater photography: dewey wrigley associate producer: william h. pine second - unit director: arthur rosson music: victor young editor: anne bauchens
this lurid melodrama seems to take an interminable amount of time to reach its famous oscar - winning climax with a giant squid, unless, of course, you happen to care whether it' s john wayne or a miscast ray milland that ends up with southern belle paulette goddard. if that little bit of romance isn' t enough for mills and boon fans, there' s another involving susan hayward and robert preston. the beginning and end are spectacular - cecil b demille proving yet again that, even as a director, he was a great producer - but this maritime vessel does get very watery amidships .
best actress winner for mrs. miniver and best actor winner for yankee doodle dandy
select a category actor actor in a supporting role actress actress in a supporting role art direction (black - and - white) art direction (color) cinematography (black - and - white) cinematography (color) directing documentary film editing irving g. thalberg memorial award music (music score of a dramatic or comedy picture) music (scoring of a musical picture) music (song) outstanding motion picture short subject (cartoon) short subject (one - reel) short subject (two - reel) sound recording special award special effects writing (original motion picture story) writing (original screenplay) writing (screenplay )
art direction: albert s. d' agostino; interior decoration: darrell silvera, al fields
art direction: cedric gibbons, randall duell; interior decoration: edwin b. willis, jack moore
art direction: jack otterson, john b. goodman; interior decoration: russell a. gausman, edward r. robinson
art direction: jack otterson, alexander golitzen; interior decoration: russell a. gausman, ira s. webb
20th century - fox studio sound department, e. h. hansen, sound director
photographic effects by gordon jennings, farciot edouart, william l. pereira; sound effects by louis mesenkop
photographic effects by a. arnold gillespie, warren newcombe; sound effects by douglas shearer
photographic effects by vernon l. walker; sound effects by james g. stewart
photographic effects by jack cosgrove, ray binger; sound effects by thomas t. moulton
art direction (color) - art direction: jack otterson, alexander golitzen; interior decoration: russell a. gausman, ira s. webb
cinematography (color) - milton krasner, william v. skall, w. howard greene
sound recording - universal studio sound department, bernard b. brown, sound director
special effects - photographic effects by howard lydecker; sound effects by daniel j. bloomberg
special effects - photographic effects by john fulton; sound effects by bernard b. brown
special effects - photographic effects by lawrence butler; sound effects by william h. wilmarth
art direction (black - and - white) - art direction: albert s. d' agostino; interior decoration: darrell silvera, al fields
actress in a supporting role - dame may whitty in
mrs. miniver
special effects - photographic effects by a. arnold gillespie, warren newcombe; sound effects by douglas shearer
special effects - photographic effects by vernon l. walker; sound effects by james g. stewart
special effects - photographic effects by ronald neame; sound effects by c. c. stevens
special effects - photographic effects by jack cosgrove, ray binger; sound effects by thomas t. moulton
sound recording - samuel goldwyn studio sound department, thomas t. moulton, sound director
art direction (black - and - white) - art direction: cedric gibbons, randall duell; interior decoration: edwin b. willis, jack moore
special effects - photographic effects by gordon jennings, farciot edouart, william l. pereira; sound effects by louis mesenkop
art direction (black - and - white) - art direction: jack otterson, john b. goodman; interior decoration: russell a. gausman, edward r. robinson
sound recording - 20th century - fox studio sound department, e. h. hansen, sound director
sound recording - warner bros. studio sound department, nathan levinson, sound director
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: he' s on a diving job. he' ll be back this afternoon
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jesse lasky, jesse lasky jr. , alan le may, charles bennett, jeanie macpherson, alan lemay
another overblown cecil b. demille
epic .
one of his lesser efforts .
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not bad and interesting to see john wayne playing outside his usual heroic character .
love this film ray milland, john wayne and paulette goddard are all great, give it a watch if you can .
saw this a long time ago and remembered it was exciting! it still is! may very well watch it again - not something i do very often with films .
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reap the wild wind is a 1942 film starring ray milland , john wayne , paulette goddard , robert preston , and susan hayward , and directed by cecil b. demille , his second picture to be filmed in color . it is based on a serialized story written by thelma strabel in 1940 for the saturday evening post . the movie , released shortly after the united states ' entry into world war ii , was a swashbuckling adventure set in the 1840s along the florida coast , and was wildly successful . while he based his film on strabel 's story , demille took liberties with details such as sibling relationships and sub-plots , while staying true to the spirit of the story , which centers on a headstrong , independent woman portrayed by paulette goddard . 
reap the wild wind is a 1942 film starring ray milland, john wayne, paulette goddard, robert preston, and susan hayward, and directed by cecil b. demille, his second picture to be filmed in color. it is based on a serialized story written by thelma strabel in 1940 for the saturday evening post. the movie, released shortly after the united states' entry into world war ii, was a swashbuckling adventure set in the 1840s along the florida coast, and was wildly successful. while he based his film on strabel's story, demille took liberties with details such as sibling relationships and sub-plots, while staying true to the spirit of the story, which centers on a headstrong, independent woman portrayed by paulette goddard.
reap the wild wind is a 1942 film starring ray milland, john wayne, paulette goddard, robert preston, and susan hayward, and directed by cecil b. demille, his second picture to be filmed in color. it is based on a serialized story written by thelma strabel in 1940 for the saturday evening post. the movie, released shortly after the united states' entry into world war ii, was a swashbuckling adventure set in the 1840s along the florida coast, and was wildly successful. while he based his film on strabel's story, demille took liberties with details such as sibling relationships and sub-plots, while staying true to the spirit of the story, which centers on a headstrong, independent woman portrayed by paulette goddard.