---
title: 'Reap the Wild Wind (1942)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Cecil B. DeMille'
released: '1942-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 123
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/reap-the-wild-wind-1942'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035244/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

1942 · 123 min · Adventure · United States


## Synopsis

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, Charles Bennett, Jesse Lasky, Jr. and Jeanie MacPherson.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Cecil B. DeMille](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-b-demille)
- **Producer:** [Cecil B. DeMille](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-b-demille)
- **Screenplay:** [Charles Bennett](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-bennett), [Jeanie MacPherson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeanie-macpherson), [Jesse Louis Lasky Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/jesse-louis-lasky-jr), [Alan Le May](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-le-may)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Victor Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-young)
- **Director of Photography:** [Victor Milner](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-milner), [William V. Skall](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-v-skall)
- **Editor:** [Anne Bauchens](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-bauchens)

## Cast

- [Maurice Costello](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-costello)
- [James Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-anderson)
- [Milburn Stone](https://cinepixo.com/people/milburn-stone)
- [Elmo Lincoln](https://cinepixo.com/people/elmo-lincoln)
- [Martha O'Driscoll](https://cinepixo.com/people/martha-o-driscoll)
- [Janet Beecher](https://cinepixo.com/people/janet-beecher)
- [Hedda Hopper](https://cinepixo.com/people/hedda-hopper)
- [George Melford](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-melford)
- [Akim Tamiroff](https://cinepixo.com/people/akim-tamiroff)
- [Walter Hampden](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-hampden)
- [Raymond Hatton](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-hatton)
- [Paulette Goddard](https://cinepixo.com/people/paulette-goddard)
- [Monte Blue](https://cinepixo.com/people/monte-blue)
- [Byron Foulger](https://cinepixo.com/people/byron-foulger)
- [Gertrude Astor](https://cinepixo.com/people/gertrude-astor)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/reap-the-wild-wind-1942
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