The Spoilers (1923)
August 26, 1923Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Milton Sills
Roy Glennister
Anna Q. Nilsson
Cherry Malotte
Barbara Bedford
Helen Chester
Robert Edeson
Joe Dextry
Ford Sterling
'Slapjack' Simms
Wallace MacDonald
Broncho Kid
Noah Beery
Alex McNamara
Mitchell Lewis
Marshal Voorhees
John Elliott
Bill Wheaton
Robert McKim
Struve
Tom McGuire
Captain Stevens
Kate Price
Landlady
Rockliffe Fellowes
Matthews
J. Gordon Russell
Burke (as Gordon Russell)
Louise Fazenda
Tilly Nelson
Sam De Grasse
Judge Stillman
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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.
The character of Cherry Malotte also appears in Beach's The Silver Horde (1930), portrayed by Evelyn Brent.