The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
Practical Effects
Full-scale shipwrecks and hurricane destruction — no CGI, just pure chaos.
Costume
Paulette Goddard's plunging necklines defy 1840s physics and gravity.
Director
Cecil B. DeMille
Paulette Goddard
Loxi Claiborne
Ray Milland
Stephen Tolliver
John Wayne
Captain Jack Stuart
Raymond Massey
King Cutler
Robert Preston
Dan Cutler
Lynne Overman
Captain Phillip Philpott
Susan Hayward
Drusilla Alston
Charles Bickford
Mate of the 'Tyfib'
Walter Hampden
Commodore Devereaux
Louise Beavers
Maum Maria
Martha O'Driscoll
Ivy Devereaux
Elisabeth Risdon
Mrs. Claiborne
Hedda Hopper
Aunt Henrietta
Victor Kilian
Widgeon
Oscar Polk
Salt Meat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The massive squid was a mechanical prop that malfunctioned constantly, forcing Wayne to wrestle with rubber tentacles while trying not to laugh.
DeMille recycled the hurricane climax from his 1928 silent film 'The Godless Girl,' proving he was the original self-plagiarist with a budget.
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