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.
Paulette Goddard
as Loxi Claiborne
Ray Milland
as Stephen Tolliver
John Wayne
as Captain Jack Stuart
Raymond Massey
as King Cutler
Robert Preston
as Dan Cutler
Lynne Overman
as Captain Phillip Philpott
Susan Hayward
as Drusilla Alston
Charles Bickford
as Mate of the 'Tyfib'
Walter Hampden
as Commodore Devereaux
Louise Beavers
as Maum Maria
Martha O'Driscoll
as Ivy Devereaux
Elisabeth Risdon
as Mrs. Claiborne
