cecil b. demille and other than the great show on earth and produce and direct one of his best film and in this swashbuckler . along with rough sea and sail ship and beautiful southern lady and sea wreck [ he always have to have that disasterous wreck ] a giant squid in a spectacular underwater scene in the hull of a wrecked ship and villain and hero and demille round up a stellar cast in the like of paulette goddard and fresh from her almost get the role of scarlett ohara in go with the wind and a loxi claiborne and who be in love with handsome captain jack and [ john wayne ] who be just begin to gain world wide fame and steve toliver and play by suave and sharp tongued ray milland and one of his best act role and along with a young robert preston and susan hayward a young lover who become victim of the war over salvage right of wrecked ship . then there raymond massey and a the villain and cutler and charles bickford and walter hampden and famous for his stage performance of cyrano and colorful lynne overman a loxi ship captain and hedda hopper [ without a fancy hat ] and louise beaver a a mammy type servant to paulette [ very go with wind stuff ] . the color of technicolor still hold up [ not use that often in the 40 ] . goddard performance alone be worth the admission . this be her second film for demille [ the first be northwest mount police ] but not her last [ ahead she be to play opposite gary cooper in unconquered ] . in this film she show why she come that close to get scarlett . beautiful and oh and those green eye and and feisty and like scarlett and paulette give her best and include sing a rather salty sea chant at a social elite gathering of all of savannah fine lady . this be available on vhs and worth get a copy to view if you want to see the magical world of film of the forty . and the star that make them .