The Spoilers (1930 film)

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name = The Spoilers


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director = Edward Carewe
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writer = Rex Beach
Bartlett Cormack
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starring = Gary Cooper
Kay Johnson
Betty Compson
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distributor = Paramount
released = 1930
runtime = 86 min.
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0021412

"The Spoilers" is a 1930 film directed by Edward Carewe. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with Gary Cooper as Roy Glennister, Kay Johnson as Helen Chester, Betty Compson as Cherry Malotte, and William "Stage" Boyd as Alec MacNamara. The film culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between Glennister and McNamara.

"The Spoilers" was adapted to screen by Bartlett Cormack from the 1906 Rex Beach novel. Film versions also appeared in 1914, 1923 (with Noah Beery as McNamara), 1942 (with John Wayne in Gary Cooper's role of Glennister, Marlene Dietrich replacing Compson, whom she resembled, as Malotte, and Randolph Scott as McNamara), and 1955 (with Anne Baxter as Malotte, Jeff Chandler as Glennister, and Rory Calhoun as McNamara).

The 1930 and 1942 versions were the only instance of Gary Cooper and John Wayne playing exactly the same role in the same story in two different films.

Cast

*Gary Cooper as Roy Glenister
*Kay Johnson as Helen Chester
*Betty Compson as Cherry Malotte
*William 'Stage' Boyd as Alec McNamara
*Harry Green as Herman
*Slim Summerville as Slapjack Simms
*James Kirkwood as Joe Dextry
*Lloyd Ingraham as Judge Stillman
*Oscar Apfel as Struve
*George Irving as William Wheaton
*Knute Erickson as Captain Stevens
*Merrill McCormick as Miner
*Charles K. French as Man in Bar
*Jack Holmes as Voorhees
*John Beck as Hanson