Editing Reap the Wild Wind (section)

==Plot==
In 1840, Loxi Claiborne is running a [[marine salvage]] business started by her deceased father. A [[hurricane]] is passing through the [[Key West]] area, leaving behind at least one wreck on the nearby [[shoal]]s. The ''Jubilee'' founders, and Loxi and other salvagers race to claim the cargo. Not arriving first, Loxi and her crew rescue the captain, Jack Stuart, but do not share in the salvage rights. Apparently, the first salvager on the scene, King Cutler, may have actually planned the wreck.
[[File:John Wayne and Paulette Goddard in Reap the Wild Wind trailer.jpg|left|thumb|[[John Wayne]] and [[Paulette Goddard]]]]
Nursing Jack back to health, Loxi falls in love with him. When she visits [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] with her cousin Drusilla, Loxi schemes to win a plum captain's position for Jack by seducing Steve Tolliver, who is running the [[sailing ship]] line for which Jack works. Steve falls for Loxi and returns with her to Key West to investigate the truth about Jack's shipwreck.

Drusilla goes home to [[Havana]] when Loxi and Steve return to Key West. Steve has come to rid the [[Florida Keys|Keys]] of [[pirate]]s like Cutler (and to be near Loxi). Cutler, in turn, arranges to have Steve [[Shanghaiing|shanghaied]] by the crew of a [[whaler]]. Loxi hears of the plot and gets Jack to help her save Steve. Later, they discover that Steve has concealed Jack's appointment to the [[steamship]] ''Southern Cross'' on orders from his superior. Angry over a seemingly underhanded act, Jack meets with Cutler. He learns that Steve's boss has just died and that Steve will be taking over the [[shipping line]]. Jack realizes that he is unlikely to keep his command with Steve in charge and agrees to work with Cutler to sabotage his new ship; he sails to Havana to take command.
[[File:Paulette Goddard and Ray Milland in Reap the Wild Wind trailer.jpg|left|thumb|[[Paulette Goddard]] and [[Ray Milland]]]]
Rumors circulate and prices of the cargo of the ''Southern Cross'' fluctuate wildly, leaving Steve to suspect a wreck is planned. He commandeers the ''Claiborne'' with Loxi on board and heads to Havana to stop Jack. Loxi, believing Jack is innocent, disables her ship, and they sit becalmed in a fog bank as the ''Southern Cross'' piles into a [[reef]] and sinks. Unknown to Jack, Drusilla had stowed away to be with her lover, King Cutler's brother Dan, and she drowns.

Jack is put on trial for wrecking his ship. The testimony reveals a woman may have been on board, though none was rescued. To determine if a woman is in the wreck, Steve agrees to [[Underwater diving|dive]] to the wreck with Jack. While down in the wreck, Jack and Steve discover proof that Drusilla was on board and has been drowned. They are attacked by a [[giant squid]]. Jack saves Steve's life, but is lost when the ''Southern Cross'' slips off the [[continental shelf]] into deep water. Dan Cutler accuses his brother of murder and is shot dead by him, whereupon, Steve shoots King Cutler, killing him.

Loxi and Steve return to Charleston together.