The Spoilers (1923 film)

The Spoilers
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Directed by	Lambert Hillyer
Written by	Elliott J. Clawson
Based on	The Spoilers 1906 novel/play by Rex Beach
Produced by	Jesse D. Hampton
Starring	Milton Sills Anna Q. Nilsson Noah Beery Sr.
Cinematography	John Stumar Dwight Warren
Production company	Jesse D. Hampton Productions
Distributed by	Goldwyn Pictures
Release date	August 5, 1923 (1923-08-05)
Running time	80 minutes; 8,020 feet
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

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 in 1955 with Anne Baxter as Malotte, Jeff Chandler as Glennister and Rory Calhoun as McNamara.^[1]

The character of Cherry Malotte also appears in Beach's The Silver Horde (1930), portrayed by Evelyn Brent.

Plot

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Cast

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Milton Sills as Roy Glennister
Anna Q. Nilsson as Cherry Malotte
Barbara Bedford as Helen Chester
Robert Edeson as Joe Dextry
Ford Sterling as Slapjack Simms
Wallace MacDonald as Broncho Kid
Noah Beery Sr. as Alex McNamara
Mitchell Lewis as Marshall Voorhees
John Elliott as Bill Wheaton, Attorney
Robert McKim as Struve
Rockliffe Fellowes as Matthews

Preservation

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A print of The Spoilers is maintained in the film archives at Gosfilmofond in Moscow and the Centre National du Cinéma at Fort de Bois-d'Arcy.^[2]

References

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^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Spoilers at the silentera.com
^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Spoilers

External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Spoilers (1923 film).

The Spoilers at IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie
The Spoilers at the TCM Movie Database
The Spoilers at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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