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Academy Award Art Direction (Black-and-White) 1943 · Nominated
The Spoilers: Directed by Ray Enright. With Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay. In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.
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- Drama, Western
- Ray Enright
- 1942-06-11
The Spoilers (1942 film) The Spoilers. (1942 film) The Spoilers is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott and John Wayne . The Spoilers was adapted to screen by Lawrence Hazard from the 1906 Rex Beach novel of the same name. Film versions also appeared in 1914, in 1923 (with Noah Beery ...
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William Farnum, who played John Wayne's role in the original 1914 filmization of The Spoilers, plays a key supporting role in this remake; also on hand in a cameo is poet Robert W. Service, of The Shooting of Dan McGrew fame. Listen for a cute inside joke at the beginning of the picture, invoking the name of co-producer Lee Marcus.
Critics reviews. Set against the backdrop of the Nome Gold Rush in Alaska, this tale of corruption follows honest miner Roy Glennister who gets swindled out of his gold mine claim. He then turns to the seductive saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.
Famous for having one of the longest and most elaborate brawls in film history, The Spoilers (1942) is probably the best version of this classic Western tale which has been filmed five times; with Tom Santschi and William Farnus in 1913, Milton Sills and Noah Beery in 1923, Gary Cooper and William Boyd in 1930, John Wayne and Randolph Scott in 1941, and Rory Calhoun and Jeff Chandler in 1955.
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