Reap the Wild Wind is DeMille's first swashbuckling sea spectacle. Although he was 60 years old it was lavishly shot in Technicolor and is truly a technical feat. DeMille had a huge pool to serve as the Atlantic Ocean to hold his giant squid which is still convincing. This film offers a rare opportunity to see John Wayne as a sympathetic, but not very bright love interest of Paulette Goddard and he performs quite well. Starring: Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, John Wayne, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Charles Bickford and a very young Susan Hayward. I have a web site devoted to Ray Milland and this is one of my favorite of his films.