Reap the Wild Wind
Reap the Wild Wind ★★½ 1942
DeMille epic about salvagers off the Georgia coast in the 1840s featuring Wayne as the captain and Massey and a giant squid as the villains. Good cast, lesser story, fine underwater photography. 123m/C VHS, DVD . Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford, Walter Hampden, Louise Beavers, Martha O'Driscoll, Elisabeth Risdon, Hedda Hopper, Raymond Hatton, Barbara Britton; D: Cecil B. DeMille; W: Charles Bennett, Jesse Lasky Jr., Alan LeMay; C: Victor Milner; M: Victor Young.
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