is spiritualism a fraud ? ( aka : the medium exposed ) is a 1906 british short silent drama film , directed by walter r. booth ( also credited to j.h. martin ) , featuring a medium exposed as a fake during a séance .

the trick film is , " one of the last films made by r.w. paul in collaboration with the trick-film specialist w.r. booth , " and according to michael brooke of bfi screenonline , " combines elements of the previous year 's the unfortunate policeman with a special effects sequence .

however , unlike booth and paul 's other work , here the mechanisms are deliberately revealed , " " the crucial difference between his illusions and those of a medium is that booth 's audience knew that they were being deceived , but were happy to go along with the charade for the sake of both entertainment and the pleasure of working out how it was done . "

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is spiritualism a fraud ? <EOT> is spiritualism a fraud ? ( robert w . paul , 1906 ) . avi

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the following is a list of spiritualists who ignore evidence of fraud in mediumship .

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authors who were well known for exposing the fraud in spiritualism included the magician william robinson author of spirit slate writing and kindred phenomena , joseph mccabe author of is spiritualism based on fraud ? , frank podmore the author of modern spiritualism : a history and criticism and the book the follies and frauds of spiritualism by walter mann .

no doubt a great importance in the paranormal field is the problem of fraud . the field of psychic research and spiritualism has been so notoriously full of charlatans , such as the fox sisters and

spiritualism is the belief that one can contact the dead through a medium leading a séance . the various tricks mediums use to perform this apparent miracle are described below .

the film ' s main title , is spiritualism a fraud ? is followed by the emphatic subtitle the medium exposed , and an opening sequence that shows the alleged medium conspiring with his bewigged friend prior to the seance that he ' ll be masterminding . mere seconds into the film , the answer to the question is an unambiguous " yes " , and the remaining few minutes reinforces this view .

there is a long history of fraud in spiritualist practices such as those found in mediumship and séances . many mediums have been caught using tricks and even using theatrical props in their séances to convince their audience of the presence of spirits . on the subject of fraud paul kurtz wrote :

i think that it is about time that the truth of this miserable subject “spiritualism” should be brought out . it is now widespread all over the world , and unless it is put down soon it will do great evil . i was the first in the field and have the right to expose it .

presences . séances always take place in darkness , so the poor lighting conditions become an easy opportunity for fraud .

a belief in a god , often referred to as " infinite intelligence " .

there are people who pretend , quite wrongly , that dead people can speak . which they can ' t . they ' re dead . they won ' t talk to you , they ' re dead . but there are people , a class of fraud , and i ' m saying this directly into camera , you are a fraud . if you are a medium , you are fraudulent , and . . .

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all this , of course , is conjecture , as we know little of booth and paul ' s actual views ( and it ' s not completely certain that booth directed the film , as it ' s also been attributed to j . h . martin ) , but it seems likely that their film was intended to be read as an attack on spiritualism in general . the chase scene concludes with a very public humiliation as the fake medium ( who has already suffered the indignity of being boxed up and thrown down the stairs ) is tied to a chair and placed on a cart to create a makeshift tumbril , on which he is paraded through the streets as a warning to others .

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but the severest blow that spiritualism has ever received is delivered to - day through the solemn declarations of the greatest medium of the world that it is all a fraud , a deception , a lie . this statement is made by mrs . margaret fox kane , who has been able , through long training and early muscular development , to produce peculiar rappings and knocks which were affirmed to be spiritual manifestations , and which were so skillfully done as to baffle all attempts at discovery . it was this woman , then margaret fox , and the most expert of the world - famous “fox sisters , ” who was first brought before the public as a medium . her tour of the great cities of the united states is historical . she was seen by most of the prominent theologians , physicians and professional men , but there was not one who could solve the mysterious power that seemed to possess her nor imitate her alleged spiritual rappings .

a hot reading is when the medium is provided with some background information on their subject . for example , they may be provided the name of the dead person or details on the location . this can backfire , such as in the case when tv medium derek acorah contacted a fake ghost that had been invented by a sceptical member of his production crew . [ 6 ]

cold reading is a process in which the medium has little to no information regarding their subject , so they must rely on guesses . although guesses would seem random and easy to spot , many people are tricked into believing that the medium is indeed talking to the dead . this process is facilitated by the subject ' s willingness to cooperate in order to assuage their grief by communicating with a dead friend or relative . this approach works well on a crowd , since this increases the chances of someone seeing relevance in the guesses . subjects are very good at volunteering information , particularly when correcting errors , and the medium will feed this information back to them later in the reading . many subjects don ' t even realise this is happening , and tend to ignore the times when a medium is wrong , concentrating entirely on the random successes - this is known as selective reporting .

there is no scientific evidence that spirits can communicate through mediumship . there has been over one hundred years ' investigation into mediumship and so far all results have proven natural explanations such as fraud and psychological factors , not spirits coming through . spiritualists are well known for quote mining early reports from parapsychologists and the society for psychical research ( spr ) in defence of the view that spiritualism has been scientifically proven . there are problems with this as most members of the spr did not endorse the view that spirits can communicate with mediums and the minority of experiments which claimed to have proven spiritualism were never replicated by any other scientists .

research and empirical evidence from psychology for over a hundred years has revealed that where there is not fraud , mediumship and spiritualistic practices can be explained by psychological factors . trance mediumship which is claimed by the spiritualists to be caused by discarnate spirits speaking through the medium have been proven in cases to be personalities from the medium ' s subconscious mind . [ 13 ] [ 14 ] the psychologist andrew neher wrote " there is no conclusive evidence that mediums or psychics have produced phenomena that are not explainable in terms of either deception of ordinary psychological processes . " [ 15 ]

most nineteenth - century mediums were caught out in fraud at some point in their careers . ( owen , 2004 ) . mediums would even use acrobatic techniques during séances to convince audiences of

in addition to the evident quackery there is a more ( shall we say ) bodily side to the history of spiritualism . many female mediums of the 19th century took part in sexual activities with their male audiences in the séance room . [ 3 ] eusapia palladino and eva carrière were both known for their erotic and sexual behavior in the séance room . [ 4 ]

some mediums who perform trance mediumship claim that spirits take over their body and consciousness to communicate with people in the séance room . it is clear that many mediums fake these trances , but unconscious fraud by an alternate personality from the medium ' s subconscious mind has also been suggested by some psychologists and psychical researchers .

on october 21 , 1888 , margaret , done with traveling , wrote to the new york world . she explained that everything the fox sisters had done was a fraud . they had begun in their house by pulling an apple connected to a string , and eventually discovered that by snapping toe joints against wood , the sound would resonate throughout the house . it is speculated that at the time of the confession , there were 8 million spiritualists in the united states .

another investigator , harlow gale , reported that many attenders of a séance claimed to see jesus , an italian girl playing a harp and a dove bringing herbs in an envelope to a séance sitter . gale and his wife who were at the séance wrote they had not observed any of these things . [ 17 ]

a belief that the soul continues to exist after the death of the physical body .

spiritualists believe in communicating with the spirits of dead people . according to spiritualism mediums are humans gifted to do this , often through seances . they believe that spirits are capable of growth and perfection , progressing through so called " higher spheres " or " planes " in the afterlife and that anyone may become a medium through study and practice .

a medium is someone who claims to speak with spirits . it ' s the main belief of spiritualism . most mediums are charlatans helping people to part with their money and have been exposed as using tricks . while the majority of mediums claim psychic powers , there are a few - known as mentalists - who are honest about their use of the psychological principles and tricks that it is almost certain that the " real " mediums actually use . some mediums may even be unaware that they ' re using these techniques and genuinely believe they have special powers - the rest that are well aware that they ' re not really speaking with spirits from the spirit world but are usually considered to be the most reviled . some of the tricks that mediums use include :

perhaps the best tool to reveal mediums as less than accurate is a record of the entire session , ideally a recording or written transcript . a review of this record will reveal the sheer number of incorrect guesses made by the medium . mediums rely on manipulating their subjects into ignoring the misses , and elaborating on the hits—something that is clearly illustrated by reading the transcript . televised mediums can be more directly deceitful , dropping their missed guesses on the cutting room floor so that the vast bulk of their audience doesn ' t even have the chance to notice the cold reading techniques in action . [ 8 ]

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after her confession , margaret gave a demonstration of the tricks she used for her " spirit " rapping in front of a large audience . [ 5 ] the spiritualists were undeterred .

the psychologist gustav jahoda attended a séance during which he kicked the table leading other sitters to believe spirits were communicating . one of the sitters asked the non - existent spirit to materialize and the sitters claimed to have observed the spirit materialize in the corner of the room as " a little grey man " . jahoda claimed there was no man but just a faint shadow cast by a curtain in a slight breeze . a year after the séance he came clean to a séance sitter that he had faked the phenomenon of the table . the séance sitter did not believe jahoda and claimed the séance was genuine evidence for spirit communication . [ 22 ]

booth was a stage magician himself , so there may well have been an element of professional rivalry at play here . however , the crucial difference between his illusions and those of a medium is that booth ' s audience knew that they were being deceived , but were happy to go along with the charade for the sake of both entertainment and the pleasure of working out how it was done . by contrast , the medium is using similar stage effects to fool people into believing that they might be able to contact their dead loved ones .

the unparalleled excitement caused by these young girls suggested to the minds of many unscrupulous persons the vast financial field that lay before anybody who should pretend similar mediumistic powers . at once there were hundreds of mediums in all parts of the country and the number of these impostors has increased year by year . now the fox sisters have come forward and as a matter of long - neglected duty to the public and for their own peace of mind say boldly that theirs has been a life of deception and fraud . as the first and greatest of all mediums the weight of their evedence can not fail to sound the death knell of the abominable business which they , at an age when they knew not what they did , began and have seen flourish into one gigantic world - wide fraud .

there are over 300 spiritualist churches in the uk . [ 23 ] in april 2008 the british government intends to introduce a law which will make claims made by spiritualists subject to consumer legislation . consequently if a clairvoyant charges an individual for services and that consumer subsequently deems those services to be " defective " then the consumer will have a legal right to seek compensation and damages . [ 24 ] the spiritualist movement is unsure how best to respond to this situation . [ 25 ]

editor’s note : this article appeared originally in the newspaper the new york world , on october 21 , 1888 . it is the testimony of the first modern - day psychic , margaret fox , where she tells the story of how a simple childhood joke sparked the spiritualist movement that even today has a strong following , with numerous tv shows about psychics and how they talk to the dead .

the claims of the spiritualism regarding the reality of mediumship were investigated by the society for psychical research , founded in london in 1882 who came to the conclusion that many mediums were using fraudulent techniques and trickery in the séance room . psychical researchers who had exposed fraud in mediumship came from a variety of different backgrounds such as frank podmore and harry price . during the 1920s , professional magician harry houdini undertook a well - publicised campaign to expose fraudulent mediums . houdini wrote " up to the present time everything that i have investigated has been the result of deluded brains " . [ 10 ] other professional conjurers such as john nevil maskelyne exposed mediumship by appearing in the audience during their shows and explaining how the tricks were done . the american magician john mulholland had also exposed the tricks of mediumship . [ 11 ]

films screened at light industry , a brooklyn microcinema for independent , experimental , and avant - garde film .

* this film is included in the bfi dvd compilation ' r . w . paul : the collected films 1895 - 1908 ' , with music by stephen horne and optional commentary by ian christie .

joseph jastrow fact and fable in psychology macmillan , 1901 also see millais culpin spiritualism and the new psychology , an explanation of spiritualist phenomena and beliefs in terms of modern knowledge longmans , green & co . , 1920 and wilfrid lay man ' s unconscious spirit the psychoanalysis of spiritism dodd , mead and company , 1921

in hydesville , new york in 1848 , the farmhouse of john d . fox was allegedly filled with mysterious rapping sounds . the noises created a buzz throughout town , and the farmhouse became a local phenomenon . two of the fox daughters , margaret and kate ( who the noises seemed to center around ) attributed the sound to a spirit named mr . splitfoot . eventually , a pattern was established to the knocks in response to questions , whereby one knock meant yes and two knocks meant no . leah fox , the older married sister of margaret and kate , returned home for a visit and discovered the town ' s fascination with the raps . sensing a great money - making scheme , she took her sisters on the road to rochester and founded the society of spiritualists . as the spirit seemed to follow them , people in rochester could , for a price , ask the spirit yes or no questions . the sisters went on a tour of cities , including philadelphia and new york . as spiritualism increased , so did the number of séances not involving the fox sisters . mediums would lead them , asking spirits yes or no questions , which were responded to with the same system of raps .

andrew neher . ( 2011 ) . paranormal and transcendental experience : a psychological examination . dover publications . p . 222

was a substance that spirits use to take physical form , according to mediums and spiritualists of the 19th and early 20th century ; however the substance was revealed to be made of cheesecloth , butter , eggs or soap . mediums would also use plastic toy dolls , or stick faces from magazines and newspapers onto props to pretend spirits were contacting them . ectoplasm has been an embarrassment for spiritualism , and recent spiritualist practices in the 21st century only focus on mental mediumship .

the importance of reading can be seen in the fact that mediums are very unforthcoming with details early on in a reading as they probe the mark participant , who unknowingly are filling in the details themselves ! spirits may express regret at having missed seeing a child grow up , or they could relay information about their favorite clothes , but they forget the little things—such as their name . consider the following options and choose the one you feel is more likely to be accurate :

my sister kate and myself were very young children when this horrible deception began . i was eight , and just a year and half older than she . we were very mischievous children and we wanted to terrify our dear mother , who was a very good woman and very easily frightened . at night , when we went to bed , we used to tie an apple to a string and move the string up and down , causing the apple to bump on the floor , or we would drop the apple on the floor , making a strange noise every time it would rebound . my mother listened to this for a time . she could not understand it and did not suspect us of being capable of a trick because we were so young .

one of the last films made by r . w . paul in collaboration with the trick - film specialist w . r . booth , this combines elements of the previous year ' s the unfortunate policeman ( with which it shares a studio - bound first half , followed by a chase shot in the streets of muswell hill in north london ) with a special effects sequence . however , unlike booth and paul ' s other work , here the mechanisms are deliberately revealed : the dramatic centrepiece comes when the medium ' s methods are exposed to his gullible patrons after the light is switched on to expose his assistant .

leonard zusne , warren h . jones anomalistic psychology : a study of magical thinking psychology press ; 2 edition , 1989 isbn 0805805087

there is evidence séance sitters have experienced phenomena that have no objective existence . according to the psychical researcher eric dingwall , during a séance various sitters had reported hearing music such as an orchestra , and witnessing full - form phantasms and materialized dogs laying on the laps of the sitters . however according to dingwall he could not detect any of these phenomena , and all the experiences were purely subjective . [ 16 ]

and this is the way we began . first as a mere trick to frighten mother , and then , when so many people came to see us children , we were frighten ourselves and kept it up . we were then taken by mrs . underhill to rochester . there it was that we discovered how to make the other raps . my sister kate was the first one to discover that by swishing her fingers she could produce a certain noise with the knuckles and joints , and that the same effect could be made with the toes . finding that we could make raps with our feet – first with one foot , then with both – we practiced until we could do this easily when the room was dark . no one suspected us of any trick because we were such young children . we were led on by my sister purposely and by my mother unintentionally . we often heard her say , “is this a disembodied spirit that has taken possession of my dear children ? ”

harlow gale . ( 1901 ) . a study in spiritistic hallucinations . proceedings of the society for psychical research , 15 . pp . 65 - 69 .

that encouraged our fun , and we went on . all the neighbors thought there was something , and they wanted to find out what it was . they were convinced some one had been murdered in the house . they asked us about it , and we would rap one for the spirit answer “yes” not three , as we did afterwards . we did not know anything about spiritualism then . the murder , they concluded , must have been committed in the house . they went over the whole surrounding country , trying to get the names of people who had formerly lived in the house . they found finally a man by the name of bell , and they said this poor innocent man had committed a murder in the house , and that these noises came from the spirit of the murdered person . poor bell was shunned and looked upon by the whole community as a murderer . as far as spirits were concerned , neither my sister nor i thought about it .

at last she could stand it no longer and she called the neighbors in and told them about it . it was this that set us to discover the means of making the raps . i think , when i reflect about it , that it was a most wonderful discovery – a very wonderful thing that children so young should make such a discovery , and all through mischief . children will always find means to accomplish mischief . and to the thought of spirits , this never entered our brains . we were too young to know anything about that .

the statement which the world gives was prepared by mrs . margaret fox kane , the widow of the famous artic explorer , dr . kane . this she will repeat to - nite at the academy of music , and she will demonstrate to all , as she has to a world reporter , exactly how she preforms the tricks which have deluded 8 , 000 , 000 people in this country alone . at the same time dr . c . m . richmond and mr . frank w . stecham will expose the many other tricks and illusions commonly practiced by mediums at their seances . the admission to the academy to - night has been placed at such a figure as to merely pay the expenses of the exposure , which is made purely in the interest of the public .

our eldest sister , mrs . underhill , was twenty - three years of age when i was born . she was in rochester when these tricks first began , but came to hydesville , the little village in central new york were we lived and were born , shortly after . my father and mother were very good , honest people and great friends with the hyde family for whom the village was named and who lived near . they took a great fancy to us and we were especial favorites of the hydes , both before and after the notoriety that our rappings made became widespread . all the people around , as i have said , were called in to witness these manifestations . my siter , now mrs . daniel underhill – she was mrs . fish then – began to form a society of spiritualists . there were so many people coming to the house that we were not able to make use of the apple trick except when we were in bed and the room was dark . even then we could hardly do it so that the only way was to rap on the bedstead .

the origins of the modern spiritualist movement can be traced to of the 19th century where , perhaps surprisingly , it became associated with more progressive ideas such as the support of women ' s rights and the abolition of slavery . it initially seemed to offer the possibility of scientific inquiry into the afterlife , although hard evidence proved less common than fakery . because mediumship maintained that divine truth was accessible to any individual , female or male , it became associated with feminism as well . most mediums have been female . [ 2 ] according to ( owen , 2004 ) mediumship maintained that women were uniquely qualified to commune with spirits of the dead and offered " female mediums a new independence , authority , and potential to undermine conventional class and gender relations in the home and in society . "

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anyone can talk to the dead — it ' s getting the dead to talk back that ' s the hard part .

–individuals who claim to have special power and gifts but who are actually conjurers who have hoodwinked scientists and the public as well–that we have to be especially cautious about claims made on their behalf .

skeptics such as robert todd carroll have written that some psychical investigators did not use scientific controls in their experiments , so it made it easy for the medium to perform trickery , especially in dark séance conditions . [ 12 ]

psychical researchers have also set up fake séances with the sitters claiming to have observed genuine phenomena . [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ]

earl fornell . ( 1964 ) . the unhappy medium . austin : university of texas press . p . 179

eric dingwall . ( 1947 ) . some human oddities . london : home & van thal . p . 128

theodore besterman . ( 1932 ) . the psychology of testimony in relation to paraphysical phenomena . proceedings of the society for psychical research , 40 . pp . 363 - 387 .

richard hodgson . ( 1887 ) . the possibilities of mal - observation and lapse memory . proceedings of the society for psychical research , 4 . pp . 381 - 495 .

richard hodgson . ( 1892 ) . mr . davey ' s imitations by conjuring of phenomena sometimes attributed to spirit agency . proceedings of the society for psychical research , 8 . pp . 253 - 310 .

joseph rinn . ( 1950 ) . sixty years of psychical research . new york : truth seeker . pp . 200 - 205

gustav jahoda . ( 1969 ) . the psychology of superstition . baltimore : penguin . pp . 50 - 51

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on many occasions , the world has been able to expose the fraudulent practices of so - called spirit mediums and turn the bright light of careful investigation upon the secret methods of these social vampires . several times have world reporters torn the white robes from the mediums as they groped about their darkened parlors deceiving their dupes into the belief that the returned spirits of their friends were before them . besides this many persons have been saved from the clutches of these soulless impostors just as the mediums were about to hold them within their avaricious grasp .


reap the wild wind is a 1942 film starring ray milland , john wayne , paulette goddard , robert preston , and susan hayward , and directed by cecil b. demille , his second picture to be filmed in color .

it is based on a serialized story written by thelma strabel in 1940 for the saturday evening post .

the movie , released shortly after the united states ' entry into world war ii , was a swashbuckling adventure set in the 1840s along the florida coast , and was wildly successful .

while he based his film on strabel 's story , demille took liberties with details such as sibling relationships and sub-plots , while staying true to the spirit of the story , which centers on a headstrong , independent woman portrayed by paulette goddard .

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reap the wild wind <EOT> looking for movie tickets ? enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing reap the wild wind near you .

reap the wild wind cost $ 2 , 038 , 210 . 91 and grossed $ 4 , 000 , 000 .

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reap the wild wind is a melodrama of atlantic coastal shipping in the windjammer days , 100 years ago . it is a film possessing the spectacular sweep of colorful backgrounds which characterize the cecil demille type of screen entertainment . after a short foreword by demille , the picture opens with scenes of a hurricane , shipwreck and struggle [ … ]

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1934’s four frightened people begins similarly ( though in modern time ) on a series of untouched vistas , which transition to yet another ship—this one in the throes of a plague epidemic . we cut to a small life boat on which ( you guessed it ) four passengers attempt to flee disease for the safety of a nearby malayan island . the four , judy ( claudette colbert ) , arnold ( herbert marshall ) , mrs . mardick ( mary boland ) and stewart ( william gargan ) enter the natural world as caricatures each representing the superficial extremes of human behavior ( i . e . meek , masculine , stubborn , etc . ) . they seek out nature as refuge from the frailties of the human body ( the plague ) . this view of nature sharply contrasts that of reap the wild wind . here the characters seek comfort in the wild rather than run from it in a salvage ship .

, author charles higham wrote that " john wayne was extremely ill - at - ease about acting in a demille picture ; he did not relish being shouted at on the set . he had applied for the role of wild bill hickok in

the giant rubber squid used in the underwater battle was donated by the studio to the war effort in 1942 . the japanese had conquered malaya and indochina , source of most of the world ' s rubber .

roughly two thirds into reap the wild wind the drama shifts in a metaphorical sense from the body to the mind as demille transitions from the perils of the sea to the court of law . it is here that jack , removed from his usual surroundings , begins to lose ground in his battle for loxi ' s affections . jack has found himself accused of intentionally running his ship aground , and through some manipulation of narrative convolution , also of the unintentional murder of loxi ' s cousin , drusilla ( who was stowed away in the ship ' s hull during the wreck ) . as a result , both jack and steve are forced to dive to the bottom of the ocean to retrieve proof of drusilla ' s death , and it is when the camera becomes submerged that the control over the fates of these two men is returned to nature . while exploring the wreckage the pair are attacked by a giant squid . the moment is meant to be tense , but it is hard to ascribe any sense of malice to the squid . it is merely seizing an opportunity without any prior knowledge of jack and steve as they exist on the surface world . it is the squid that alludes back to nature ' s lack of sympathy towards humanity . the fact that it is steve and not jack who survives the attack comes across as entirely arbitrary . steve ' s triumph could be seen as an easy parallel for the triumph of a new , more civilized way of living , yet in this context it is a triumph by way of compromise ( the sacrifice of jack ) . civilization lives alongside nature as a series of concessions .

in 1940 , the motley crew of the british tramp steamer ss glencairn prepares the ship for its perilous voyage from the west indies to baltimore and then to england .

the movie is unusual in that it shows john wayne playing a less than scrupulously honest character . it is also one of only eleven movies in which wayne ' s character dies . paulette goddard got her part after narrowly missing out on the scarlett o ' hara role in ' gone with the wind ' . the movie is also notable for the final appearance by hedda hopper as an actress in a major role .

in 1840 , ships are the international link to commerce for the united states , but their cargo is being jeopardized by the " salvage profiteers " who loiter in the florida keys waiting for hurricanes to dash the ships against the rocks . during one such storm , mathias widgeon , first mate of the

florid , over the top de mille epic , is there any other kind ? the technicolor is vivid , the costumes are beautiful and the acting is enjoyably over the top , with the exception of susan hayward who , honey chile accent notwithstanding , gives a sweet , real performance amongst all the scenery chewing .

intrepid frontiersman chris holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade martin garth in the ohio valley following the french and indian war .

files in the paramount collection at the ampas library provide the following additional information about the film : expenses on this film rose far over the original budget , and concerned production executives urged all department heads " to make cuts wherever possible . " particularly difficult and expensive to shoot was the scene with the giant octopus . information in the files and an article in

the third film following this theme , the earlier this day and age is where the divergence seen in four frightened people begins to clarify itself . notable is that this film is set solely in an urban environment with no literal interaction with the natural world . the story is a crime drama in which a gang of high school students enact vigilante justice against gangster louis garrett ( charles bickford ) for the murder of a fellow student by holding a kangaroo court in an abandoned brickyard . this act is born out of necessity due to the failure of the traditional court system to convict . the students operate outside of the principles of societal law and as such serve as an analog for the laws of the nature . furthermore , they are attempting to enact justice based on simple principles of right and wrong , and thus they are without question an entity guided by a moral center . this day and age isdemille ' s full subversion of the naturalism found later in reap the wild wind , but it is not a subversion through negation . rather , this day and age imbues nature with a sense of duality in which both versions can coexist on the same cinematic landscape . humanity is then contextualized in this landscape as the other half of a binary , never in harmonic symbiosis ; as exemplified in the final scene of this day and age in which two teenagers , after being celebrated for their heroics , are approached by a police officer about a car they stole in order to bring garrett to justice .

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scenes . demille also used the " little old new york " set at the twentieth century - fox lot , the water tank at the united artists studio , which had to be enlarged to shoot the ship sequences , and the " old hawks ' tank " and " the water way " at the columbia ranch in burbank , ca . the film went $ 250 , 000 over budget . according to an article in

when king cutler shoots his brother near the end of the film , he uses a revolver , a weapon not produced until the next decade .

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clipper ships taking the shortest route between the mississippi and the atlantic often end up on the shoals of key west in the 1840s . salvaging the ships ' cargos has become a lucrative business for two companies - - one headed by a feisty young woman . then she falls in love with the captain of a wrecked ship while he recuperates at her home . she travels to charleston and is charming to the man most likely to be head of the captain ' s company , thinking she will be able to get the captain the position he wants on the company ' s first steam ship . written by dale o ' connor

along the seaboard of the american south during the 1840s , cut - throat salvagers who profit from the wrecks of transatlantic cargo ships move from exploiting shipwrecks to causing them . as the most dangerous of the salvagers , king cutler ( raymond massey ) , takes aim at the ships of the wealthy devereaux company , ambitious ship captain jack stuart ( john wayne ) and company lawyer stephen tolliver ( ray milland ) vie for the hand of feisty loxi claiborne ( paulette goddard ) .

in 1840 , america ' s line life is the sea , with an intense commerce . in key west shore , two ship salvage companies dispute the wrecked vessels . the honest one belongs to the impulsive loxi claiborne and capt . phil philpott and the other one is owned by the unscrupulous pirate king cutler . while rescuing the crew of the ship " julliete " , wrecked on the reeves by the first mate mathias widgeon , loxi falls in love for captain jack stuart . she travels to charleston to defend jack and convince the ship owner to give the position of captain of the new steamship of the company , manipulating the powerful shipping company lawyer steve tolliver ( ray milland ) , who also falls in love for her . this triangle of love leads jack stuart to bad and fatal choices .

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, and an angry jack makes a deal with cutler to wreck the steamship for his salvage operation . stephen suspects the scheme when he sees that prices for the

“i once complained to mr . demille that he never used me in his pictures . this was after i had become a columnist . ‘i didn’t think you wanted to act any longer , ’ he said . “‘oh , come on , ’ i said . ‘when did i ever stop ? ’ “so he gave me a small part in reap the wild wind . i had to faint in it . i had never done that either off stage or on . i took lessons from ethel barrymore and laura hope crews . i was fainting all over hollywood until the day i was to do the scene . “i fainted . mr . demille said , ‘that’s that . next scene . ’ “‘what ? ’ i screamed . ‘i only get one take ? i rehearsed this for three weeks ! ’ “‘you couldn’t do any better if you did it fifty times , ’ he said . ‘that hoop skirt allows you to fall in only one direction . backwards . next scene ! ’”

“it is a film possessing the spectacular sweep of colorful backgrounds which characterize the cecil demille type of screen entertainment . the production is a visual triumph . ” – variety

indicates that underwater sequences were filmed at the pacific marine museum in malibu , ca , although modern sources suggest that the scene with the giant octopus was filmed in a tank at the paramount studios . according to an article in

article as " the last word in theatre architecture . " in 1991 , disney and pacific theaters restored the el capitan to its original 1926 design . the premiere drew a crowd of approximately 3 , 000 persons and proceeds of the evening were donated to the navy relief fund , according to

the owner of a 19th - century salvage company falls in love with a captain she rescues from a shipwreck , and helps him prove in court that the vessel ' s sinking was not his fault . however , the lawyer hired to plead the case also falls for the salvager , and the rivalry drives the captain into an alliance with a ruthless pirate . romantic adventure , starring john wayne and paulette goddard .

in 1759 , in pennsylvania ' s allegheny valley , local settlers and indian fighters try to persuade the british authorities to ban the trading of alcohol and arms with the marauding indians .

the production is a visual triumph . some of the marine scenes are breathtaking . there is skillful blending of process photography .

the final portion of this criticism is a visual text in which demille succeeds in reconciling his binary . with his use of dissolves in these films the director places us , if only for a moment , between two planes of existence , and it is here that the paradox rectifies itself by allowing the images to be accepted astride the natural and the human , divorced of ideology .

the movie was enthusiastically received both by the critics and by the public and was nominated for three academy awards , winning the oscar for best visual effects and losing out for best art direction ( hans dreier , roland anderson , george sawley ) and best cinematography .

according to modern sources , maurice costello and elmo lincoln appear in the film . news items further report that frank loesser was signed to write the picture ' s theme song and sigmund krumgold was to write the music score , but neither was credited on the film .

which posed problems were the shipwreck and shots of the vividly colored underwater kelp . for the former , demille wanted to simultaneously capture the shipwreck , the churning sea , and the stormy sky in the same shot . this was accomplished by shooting the segments separately and then projecting them on three different projectors with fused quartz lenses onto a background where the movements were synchronized . for the kelp , demille used yards and yards of iridescent silk that would weave about in the ocean depths . unfortunately , the color of silk changes in sea water so demille ' s production team , headed by cinematographer victor milner , had to use fresh silk every day , then dry it out , and have it dyed back to its original shade for reuse . needless to say , the sequence took a month to photograph but due to such painstaking detail , milner ' s cinematography received an oscar nomination that year .

, fish and lobster were culled from the pacific ocean in malibu with the permission of the california fish and game commission , and were used to stock the tanks . other scenes were shot on location in charleston , sc , and in miami , key west and new iberia , fl .

during the 1860s in the south pacific , capt . ralls , skipper of the red witch , has a series of adventures involving sunken gold bullion , pearls , natives , an unscrupulous ship owner and a giant octopus .

in 1938 . he also planned on using a live octopus for the sequence where ray milland is attacked underwater . but he ended up settling for a huge mechanical squid , which was operated by a twenty - four button electrical keyboard with a complex system of hydraulic pistons used to activate the thirty - foot tentacles of the squid . while filming the sequence , demille communicated by a loudspeaker to direct the technicians in the movement of the creature while at the same time barking orders to milland and john wayne underwater through telephone wires in their helmets ( wayne would later battle another underwater sea creature in

key west in 1940 plays host to a thriving salvage business based on the many wrecks of ships found in the vicinity . always first on the scene is king cutler ( raymond massey ) , arousing the suspicions of ship owner loxi claiborne ( paulette goddard ) . loxi ' s suitor , captain jack stuart ( john wayne ) , is also implicated in the scam , thanks to the accusations of lawyer steve tolliver ( raymond milland ) , who wants loxi for himself .

a c - 47 transport plane , named the corsair , makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of labrador , and the plane ' s pilot , captain dooley , must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue .

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two sailors vie for the affections of a southern temptress while fighting off pirates .

weren ' t you ? a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then . " ) when he was offered the role played by preston foster in

marked the last time that hopper appeared onscreen as a character other than herself .

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, which is owned by the devereaux company , knocks out captain jack stuart and purposely crashes the three - master . loxi claiborne , a tomboy who runs an honest salvage business , takes her boat out to the site of the wreck with her pal , captain phillip philpott , but king cutler and his brother dan , renowned cutthroats who contracted widgeon to wreck the ship , get there first . loxi stays on hand and rescues the unconscious jack , taking him to her home to convalesce . they soon fall in love , and loxi is inspired by jack ' s dream of commanding the

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towards the end , however , the action quickens . there is a unique filming of an undersea battle between a giant squid , of octopus descent , and the two male protagonists . despite its obvious make - believe , it is shrewd filming , realistic and thrilling .

“the apogee of his art and as jam - full a motion picture as has ever played two hours upon a screen . it definitely marks a demillestone . it is the master turned loose , with no holds barred . ” – bosley crowther , the new york times

news items provide the following information about the production : among the actors considered for lead roles in this film were john barrymore , james stewart , rex harrison , william boyd , claudette colbert , tallulah bankhead and katharine hepburn . susan hayward tested for the role of " loxi " and was originally cast as " ivy devereaux , " before being cast as " drusilla . " cecil b . demille ' s son richard was scheduled to make his screen debut in this film , but his appearance in the final film has not been confirmed . actor morris ankrum was replaced by charles bickford in the role of " mate of the

sets sail , stephen and loxi take a different ship to florida . later , however , loxi and jack come to stephen ' s aid when king cutler sells stephen to a whaler as a common sailor and sends his thugs , led by the lamb , to shanghai him . instead , after a struggle , stephen sells the thugs to the whaler . in stephen ' s jacket , loxi finds devereaux ' s orders giving jack the captaincy of the

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a mysterious stranger arrives in the missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl . much to the dislike of her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father .

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after a short foreword by demille , the picture opens with scenes of a hurricane , shipwreck and struggle for bounty among the salvage workers . this melodramatic tempo is too swift to be maintained . various angles of plot and contest necessarily must be introduced . the pacing is uneven .

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the first single from their 6th studio album ' quartet ' , peaked at no12 in the autumn of 1982 . the album itself was produced by george martin and is one of my favourite 80 ' s l p ' s . there is only one more ultravox video blocked . . . . .

( 1942 ) , a typically lavish cecil b . demille production which established ray milland as a popular leading man ( he would win the oscar three years later for his performance as the alcoholic writer in

came along , firmly offered him the part . " the only reason you called me here is to make ray milland look like a man , " wayne said . " that ' s right , " demille replied . after some wrangling , wayne accepted the role , and they became good friends . "

. at the court trial , king steers suspicion toward stephen , and it is revealed that loxi ' s cousin drusilla , who had been having a secret love affair with dan , may have stowed aboard the steamship and died when the ship sank . the court is reconvened at the site of the wreck , and jack and stephen go underwater in diving suits to the shipwreck . they find drusilla ' s corpse , but instead of killing stephen as ordered by king , jack rescues him from the grips of a deadly giant octopus . stephen is unable to save jack ' s life , however , and when he is pulled up , he displays drusilla ' s shawl . dan confronts his brother , who shoots him , and captain phil kills king . their deaths free stephen , and he and loxi return to charleston together .

' s cargo are unusually low , and he and captain phil commandeer loxi ' s ship to sail to havana and stop the steamship . loxi refuses to believe that jack would sell out and sabotages her own ship so they do not reach havana . instead , they drift in a deep fog until they near the reef where cutler ' s ship is lurking , and are on hand to witness the purposeful sinking of the

“josef von sternberg opts for a broad , preposterous comic - book style in this piece of cold - war hysteria , which completely undermines the neanderthal intentions of the film’s producer , howard hughes . janet leigh is a busty russian spy pilot , shot down over the u . s . ( her flying suit striptease , punctuated by the roar of offscreen jet engines , is unforgettably outrageous ) …” – dave kehr , chicago reader

florida ship salvager , loxi , falls for jack , captain of a ship wrecked on the key west shore . however , their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor , and eventually leads to tragedy .

the character salt meat is introduced as a barbados sailor , but he speaks with an american southern accent .

another edition , same catalog # , has an embossed cover , with the architectural structures in relief . the promo copy also shares the same cat # and tracklisting . there is no remix title for a , but it does differ from the album version and is known as " extended version " on later releases . sleeve reads cat # chs12 2639 sing sing song / jump jet music / hot food music / mood music © 1982 chrysalis records ltd . ℗ 1982 chrysalis records ltd . published by chrysalis records ltd . 1982 made in the uk

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, a story about the virgin mary , but was unable to resolve numerous script problems . instead , he decided to make a movie about shipwrecks and deep - sea diving based on a serial by thelma strabel that had appeared in the

florida ship salvager , loxi , falls for jack , captain of a ship wrecked on the key west shore . however , their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor , and eventually leads to . . . see more »

, an old rustbucket , on the condition that jack be sent ashore in florida upon its arrival there until stephen can prove his innocence . loxi is the last to learn that stephen has gotten her aunt ' s permission to marry her and publicly rejects him . stephen , who has no intention of losing her , interrupts her hasty wedding to jack aboard the

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the plot concerns a love triangle set in the florida keys in the 1840 ' s where piracy reigns . a rare female ship salvager , played by paulette goddard , falls in love with a ship ' s captain , played by john wayne , and faces an unscrupulous rival ( raymond massey ) who may be sabotaging ships . near the end there is a highly unlikely , but nevertheless , spectacular and utterly riveting underwater battle in which a giant squid kills john wayne , thereby allowing ray milland to eventually win goddard .

reported that artist dan sayre groesback was set to design scenes for the picture , as he reportedly had for other demille films , and that english poet laureate john masefield was to work on the film , but their contributions to this film have not been verified .

, 1945 ) and won an oscar for best visual effects . the story , which is set in the florida keys , pits loxi claiborne ( paulette goddard ) , the owner of a ship salvage operation , against the dishonest cutler brothers ( raymond massey , robert preston ) who are suspected of causing schooners to wreck just so they can salvage them . joining forces with loxi temporarily are captain jack stuart ( john wayne ) and stephen tolliver ( ray milland ) , a charleston lawyer investigating a recent ship salvage . as expected , stuart and tolliver soon become rivals for loxi ' s affections and their conflict sets the stage for a tragic turn of events .

during the california gold rush , boston pharmacist tom craig sets up shop in sacramento where he clashes with local town crook britt dawson .

“at advanced admissions this broke three records , biggest gross at these admissions , biggest saturday in history , and biggest two - day business . well worth considering , even in small towns . we had decided to pass it by , but when other exhibitors told us how they did , we could no longer ignore the signal that here was one of the big - money pictures of the season . ”

after thirty years of making motion pictures , cecil b . de mille has pretty well learned the trade . he has learned that the camera has no motive unless there is plenty of movement in front of it ; that drama , reduced to essentials , is just two strong men contending for a maid and , lately , that technicolor is the dish for serving lavish spectacle . view full article in timesmachine »

, and she and jack wrongly assume that stephen planned to withhold this news from jack . jack then confronts king , who informs him that devereaux has died and stephen is now head of the shipping company . king convinces jack that stephen will never allow him to command the

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an example can be found in the final scene in which loxi has shed her sweater and sailor ' s beanie for a hoop skirt and parasol . with this , she is permitted to float lazily down the river with ( her now husband ) steve . the same is true in four frightened people , although the concession is more an assimilation . it is only when the four lose their clothes and learn to hunt that they are afforded comfort . even when they return to civilization , they are only able to find happiness when they permit themselves to act on impulse . indeed , that film ends with arnold abruptly leaving his wife to pursue judy . with these conclusions demille manufactures logic that in both of these films reminds us that for all of our perceived conquest over the natural world , we are merely existing because nature has allowed it .

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in conjunction with a celebration of its thirtieth year in business and cecil b . demille ' s thirtieth year in films at the newly renovated el capitan theatre on hollywood blvd . in los angeles , ca . the theatre , renamed the paramount hollywood theatre , was remodeled by noted los angeles architect w . l . pereira , who is credited with special photographic effects in this film , and hal pereira , and was described in a contemporary

in 1840 , there ' s work on the florida keys for honest salvagers ( like the claibornes ) and outright pirates like king cutler , who bribes sailors to cause wrecks . when capt . stuart ' s ship is wrecked , loxi claiborne rescues him , falls for him , and travels to charleston to convince the owners the wreck wasn ' t his fault ; company lawyer steve tolliver returns with them to key west to investigate . tolliver and stuart ' s rivalry for loxi ' s hand complicates their swashbuckling adventures in pursuit of cutler , ending in a trial and a dangerous dive for evidence .

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demille adventure about 19th century ocean salvagers in the american south who become involved in a love triangle . highlighted by a battle with a giant squid !

review : this memorable cecil b . demille high seas epic sports a topnotch cast and glorious technicolor photography , not to mention a giant red squid . set in the 1840s , when tall ships were being replaced by steam engines , the film opens as goddard , a tough and ind… ( more )

incorrectly regarded as a goof : john wayne ' s reference to mother carey ' s chickens has nothing to do with kate douglas wiggins 1911 novel . it is a seafaring name for the storm petrel , so - called because the birds appear before a storm . mother carey is a corruption of mater cara ( dear mother ) , an epithet of the virgin mary , to whom portuguese and spanish sailors used to pray before a storm . see more »

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i haven ' t watched many john wayne films on dvd , mostly growing up and seeing them on tv , so this is a first . i don ' t think that the duke was the main actor in this movie , think ray miland was billed as top actor , but as the duke rose to stardom , i think things changed . this is a technicolor classic , and i still say that technicolor was way ahead of its time and looks so much brighter then anything we have today . john wayne plays captain jack stuart pretty much a washed up ships captain because of sabotage within his own crew , but he falls in love with susan hayward who brings out the best in any man . a true sea worthy adventure . good classic to add to the collection , but only 3 stars .

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along the florida keys , loxi claiborne runs a ship salvage business , rivalled only by the unscrupulous king cutler . loxi rescues and falls in love with jack stuart , who comes to believe that his rival for loxi , stephen tolliver , has sabotaged his chance at a new ship . mistaken but vengeful , stuart joins forces with cutler with tragic results .

from 27 april to june 1 , 1940 . the foreword in strabel ' s novel , as published in 1942 , was written by director / producer cecil b . demille .

, the devereaux company ' s first steamship . jack believes that devereaux lawyer stephen tolliver will prevent him from a promotion because of this latest wreck , and when loxi travels to charleston , south carolina , to visit with her aunt henrietta , she meets stephen . loxi flirts with the lawyer in hopes of swaying his opinion . stephen , who has always intended to defend jack to his employer , genuinely falls in love with loxi , although he is unaware of her ulterior motives . stephen insists that commodore devereaux send him to discover the

“strange to say , manhattan’s film reviewers are among mr . demille’s enthusiasts . for years they have condescendingly panned his pictures and dismissed his box - office record . but this technicolored hoking up of thelma strabel’s novel is apparently to their taste . one wonders . to some of us , the maestro’s florid films have always been justified by their elementally human characters . they achieve drama through action , not talk . in other words , they belong in the movies . there isn’t anyone like demille , the only veteran of pioneer movies to survive intact . ”

is a dramatic adventure film made in 1942 , directed by cecil b . de mille and starring john wayne , ray milland , paulette goddard and susan hayward . it is a swashbuckling naval adventure , full of spectacle and excitement , set in the mid - nineteenth century and based on a serialized story written by thelma strabel and published in the saturday evening post in 1940 .

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he had told demille ' s emissary : " just tell mr . demille too much water has flowed under the bridge for me to want that role . " demille was provoked , and when

this memorable cecil b . demille high seas epic sports a topnotch cast and glorious technicolor photography , not to mention a giant red squid . set in the 1840s , when tall ships were being replaced by steam engines , the film opens as goddard , a tough and independent salvage - schooner owner , ventures her ship into a hurricane to save wayne , whose ship has been . . . read more

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. this film was hailed by reviewers for its technical achievements and won an academy award in the category of special effects ( farciot edouart , gordon jennings , william l . pereira and louis mesenkop ) . it was nominated for academy awards in the following categories : cinematography ( color ) , victor milner and william v . skall ; and art direction / interior decoration ( color ) , hans dreier and roland anderson , george sawley . ray milland and paulette goddard reprised their roles in a

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“cecil b . demille automatically lifts his megaphone ( his time - honored weapon of verbal attack ) to address walter hampden and raymond massey , who are standing all of ten feet away . paulette goddard , fanning furiously to offset the heat , says , ‘if this set had one of those famous demille bathtubs , i’d be in it . ’ to which a furtive - voiced male extra replies , ‘and i’d stick around . ’”

producer - director : cecil b . demille screenwriters : charles bennett , jesse lasky jr . , alan lemay source : the thelma strabel serial additional writer : jeanie macpherson art directors : hans dreier , roland anderson , dan sayre groesbeck costumers : joe de yong , natalie visart cinematographers : victor milner , william v . skall underwater photography : dewey wrigley associate producer : william h . pine second - unit director : arthur rosson music : victor young editor : anne bauchens

this lurid melodrama seems to take an interminable amount of time to reach its famous oscar - winning climax with a giant squid , unless , of course , you happen to care whether it ' s john wayne or a miscast ray milland that ends up with southern belle paulette goddard . if that little bit of romance isn ' t enough for mills and boon fans , there ' s another involving susan hayward and robert preston . the beginning and end are spectacular - cecil b demille proving yet again that , even as a director , he was a great producer - but this maritime vessel does get very watery amidships .

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art direction : albert s . d ' agostino ; interior decoration : darrell silvera , al fields

art direction : cedric gibbons , randall duell ; interior decoration : edwin b . willis , jack moore

art direction : jack otterson , john b . goodman ; interior decoration : russell a . gausman , edward r . robinson

art direction : jack otterson , alexander golitzen ; interior decoration : russell a . gausman , ira s . webb

20th century - fox studio sound department , e . h . hansen , sound director

photographic effects by gordon jennings , farciot edouart , william l . pereira ; sound effects by louis mesenkop

photographic effects by a . arnold gillespie , warren newcombe ; sound effects by douglas shearer

photographic effects by vernon l . walker ; sound effects by james g . stewart

photographic effects by jack cosgrove , ray binger ; sound effects by thomas t . moulton

art direction ( color ) - art direction : jack otterson , alexander golitzen ; interior decoration : russell a . gausman , ira s . webb

cinematography ( color ) - milton krasner , william v . skall , w . howard greene

sound recording - universal studio sound department , bernard b . brown , sound director

special effects - photographic effects by howard lydecker ; sound effects by daniel j . bloomberg

special effects - photographic effects by john fulton ; sound effects by bernard b . brown

special effects - photographic effects by lawrence butler ; sound effects by william h . wilmarth

art direction ( black - and - white ) - art direction : albert s . d ' agostino ; interior decoration : darrell silvera , al fields

actress in a supporting role - dame may whitty in " mrs . miniver "

special effects - photographic effects by a . arnold gillespie , warren newcombe ; sound effects by douglas shearer

special effects - photographic effects by vernon l . walker ; sound effects by james g . stewart

special effects - photographic effects by ronald neame ; sound effects by c . c . stevens

special effects - photographic effects by jack cosgrove , ray binger ; sound effects by thomas t . moulton

sound recording - samuel goldwyn studio sound department , thomas t . moulton , sound director

art direction ( black - and - white ) - art direction : cedric gibbons , randall duell ; interior decoration : edwin b . willis , jack moore

special effects - photographic effects by gordon jennings , farciot edouart , william l . pereira ; sound effects by louis mesenkop

art direction ( black - and - white ) - art direction : jack otterson , john b . goodman ; interior decoration : russell a . gausman , edward r . robinson

sound recording - 20th century - fox studio sound department , e . h . hansen , sound director

sound recording - warner bros . studio sound department , nathan levinson , sound director

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bijou , a saloon singer with a reputation for inciting brouhahas , is one of several deportees from a south pacific island to arrive at another u . s . protectorate , boni komba . she becomes very . . . see full summary »

in 1906 , on oklahoma ' s indian lands , a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men ' s hearts .

in nome , alaska , miner roy glennister and his partner dextry , financed by saloon entertainer cherry malotte , fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner alexander mcnamara .

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: he ' s on a diving job . he ' ll be back this afternoon

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jesse lasky , jesse lasky jr . , alan le may , charles bennett , jeanie macpherson , alan lemay

another overblown cecil b . demille " epic . " one of his lesser efforts .

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not bad and interesting to see john wayne playing outside his usual heroic character .

love this film ray milland , john wayne and paulette goddard are all great , give it a watch if you can .

saw this a long time ago and remembered it was exciting ! it still is ! may very well watch it again - not something i do very often with films .

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three films by american showman cast his reputation for old testament spectacles in a different light .

having directed 3 mexican films , director amat escalante grows more ambitious with each film as he refines his sobering long - take aesthetic .

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