The Spoilers (1930 film)

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The Spoilers is a 1930 movie 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 is based on the 1906 Rex Beach novel and directed by Edward Carewe. 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 as Malotte, and Randolph Scott as McNamara), and 1955 (with Anne Baxter as Malotte, Jeff Chandler as Glennister, and Rory Calhoun as McNamara).