Reap the Wild Wind (1942) on Netflix
Passed19422h 3mActionAdventureDrama
Loxi Claiborne runs her late father's marine salvage business in the Florida Keys. When the Jubilee founders, she races rival salvagers to the wreck and rescues its captain, Jack Stuart.
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Plot summary
The Florida Keys in 1840: clipper ships bound between the Mississippi and the Atlantic run onto the shoals off Key West, and salvage of their cargo is a profitable trade. Loxi Claiborne has taken over the family business since her father's death. After a hurricane, the Jubilee founders. Loxi sails the Claiborne out to claim it, but the rival salvager King Cutler has beaten her there and fires across her bow to warn her off. She takes crew members off the wreck, among them Captain Jack Stuart, found lashed to the mast. She nurses him at home. Jack wants command of the Deveraux line's new steamship, the Southern Cross, and fears the loss of the Jubilee will be used to deny it to him. In Charleston, Loxi sets out to charm Steve Tolliver into granting Jack the post.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
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- Los Angeles architect William Pereira designed the special effects for Reap the Wild Wind. He had recently arrived from Chicago and worked briefly as a Hollywood set designer and engineer before becoming a professor at the University of Southern California and co-founding Pereira & Luckman.
- Reap the Wild Wind was the final film in which gossip columnist Hedda Hopper appeared as an actress in a significant role; she later made only cameo appearances in films.
- John Wayne accepted second billing under Ray Milland in Reap the Wild Wind, one of the few films where he played a character with a notable dark side. He later starred in the 1948 seafaring adventure Wake of the Red Witch, which had numerous similarities to this film.
