The Spoilers (1923)

Directed by

Lambert Hillyer

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent Western is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush. It follows Roy Glennister as he clashes with a villain named Alex McNamara. The story builds to a saloon fistfight between the two men.

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What happens

The Spoilers is a 1923 American silent Western 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, in 1930 (with Gary Cooper as Glennister and Betty Compson as Cherry Malotte), in 1942 (with John Wayne as Glennister, Marlene Dietrich as Malotte, and Randolph Scott as McNamara), and finally in 1955 with Anne Baxter as Malotte, Jeff Chandler as Glennister and Rory Calhoun as McNamara. The character of Cherry Malotte also appears in Beach's The Silver Horde (1930), portrayed by Evelyn Brent. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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