The Spoilers (1942 film)
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The Spoilers is a 1942 movie set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with Marlene Dietrich as Cherry Malotte, Randolph Scott as Alexander McNamara, and John Wayne as Roy Glennister. The film culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between McNamara and Glennister. The Spoilers is based on the 1906 Rex Beach novel and directed by Ray Enright. Film versions also appeared in 1914, 1923 (with Noah Beery as McNamara and Anna Q. Nilsson as Malotte), 1930 (with Gary Cooper as Glennister and Betty Compson as Malotte; this is the only time that Gary Cooper and John Wayne played the same role in two different films), and 1955 (with Anne Baxter as Malotte, Jeff Chandler as Glennister, and Rory Calhoun as McNamara). Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, and John Wayne also appeared together that same year in a movie called Pittsburgh. Remarkably, Scott was billed above Wayne in both movies, even though Wayne's role was more important in each.