The Spoilers (1923 film)
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Genre Drama, Western Story by Rex Beach Country United States | Director Lambert Hillyer Screenplay Elliott J. Clawson Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent film
English intertitles Release date 1923 (1923) Writer Rex Beach (novel), Elliott J. Clawson (adaptation), Hope Loring (adaptation), James MacArthur (play), Fred Myton (adaptation) Cast Anna Q. Nilsson, Noah Beery, Sr., Milton Sills Similar movies While the City Sleeps (1928) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Spoilers is a 1923 silent film directed by Lambert Hillyer. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with Milton Sills as Roy Glennister, Anna Q. Nilsson as Cherry Malotte, and Noah Beery, Sr. as Alex McNamara. The film culminates in a saloon fistfight between Glennister and McNamara.
The Spoilers was adapted to screen by Elliott J. Clawson from the 1906 Rex Beach novel of the same name. Film versions also appeared in 1914, 1930 (with Gary Cooper as Glennister), 1942 (with John Wayne as Glennister, Marlene Dietrich as Malotte, and Randolph Scott as McNamara), and finally in 1955.
The character of Cherry Malotte also appears in Beach's The Silver Horde.
Print listed as being held by Gosfilmofond Russian state archive.
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