Reap the wild wind!!!

I want to confess to you that I got really shocked when u gave me this movie. This movie is not quite familiar for me and it seemed quite boring. After i have watched this movie, I found out that it's interesting even I have a bit problem with the sound of film. Thus i passed this film to my close friend to watch and discuss about some part of the film that i confused. Personally, I think that watching the film that involving colonists could make students understand more about American culture and its values.

About the plot summary, the story started in 1840's in the Florida Keys. Along the Florida Keys, Loxi Claiborne runs a ship salvage business, rivalled only by the unscrupulous King Cutler.
Loxi meets Jack Stuart at the first time during the salvage of his wrecked ship, the Jubilee. Then they fall in love each other and plan to marry.

Loxi later visits Charleston with her cousin Drusilla where she decides to play up to Steve Tolliver, who can secure the captain's position for Jack on the new steam ship, the Southern Cross.

Loxi travels to Charleston. She meets Steve Tolliver, a company lawyer. He falls in love her, so a love triangle develops. Steve comes with the idea to rid of Cutler. In turn, Cutler arranges to have Steve shanghaied by the crew of the whaler Tyfib. Loxi hears that Steave is in danger so she save Steve's life. Later they discover that Steve has Jack's appointment to the Southern Cross with him. Angry over a seemingly underhanded act, Jack meets with Cutler before sailing to Havana to take command of his new ship.

Rumors circulate and prices of the cargo of the Southern Cross go up and down wildly, leaving Steve to suspect a wreck is planned. He commandeers the Claiborne (Loxi's salvage ship) with Loxi on board and heads to Havana to stop Jack. Loxi 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 return to her lover Dan Cutler and she is drowned.

Jack is put on trial for his wreck ship and women may have been on the board. To examine if a womann is in the wreck, Steve decides to dive to search a women with Jack. This part is the climax of the story.

While they dive to search for a woman, they discover that a woman was on the board and has been drowned. Unluckily, they are attacked by a giant squid. Jack saves steve from the attack of a giant squid so he died. This film ends up with the tragic result and Loxi seems to get over the loss of her intended husband pretty quickly and winds up in Charleston with Steve.