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The Spoilers (1923 film)
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Wikipedia article
'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, 1930 (with Gary Cooper as Glennister and Betty Compson as Cherry Malotte), 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.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/Spoilers1923.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Spoilers'] at the silentera.com
The character of Cherry Malotte also appears in Beach's 'The Silver Horde' (1930), portrayed by Evelyn Brent.
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A print of 'The Spoilers' is maintained in the film archives at Gosfilmofond in Moscow and the Centre National du Cinma at Fort de Bois-d'Arcy.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1564/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: 'The Spoilers']
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