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The Spoilers is a american film of genre Adventure directed by Jesse Hibbs released in USA on 23 december 1955 with Anne Baxter
The Spoilers (1955)
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Add to a movie listThe Spoilers is a 1955 film directed by Jesse Hibbs, adapted to screen by Oscar Brodney and Charles Hoffman from the novel and play by Rex Beach. The movie is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with Anne Baxter as Cherry Malotte, Rory Calhoun as Alexander McNamara, and Jeff Chandler as Roy Glennister. The film culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between Glennister and McNamara.
Film versions also appeared in 1914, 1923 (with Noah Beery, Sr. as McNamara), 1930 (with Gary Cooper as Glennister and Betty Compson as Malotte), and 1942 (with John Wayne as Glennister, Betty Compson lookalike Marlene Dietrich as Malotte, and Randolph Scott as McNamara). The 1930 and 1942 versions were the only instances of Gary Cooper and John Wayne playing the same role in the same story in two different films; Jeff Chandler portrays the part in this version.
Synopsis
Struggling miners Flapjack and Banty go to the office of Alex McNamara, the new gold commissioner in Nome, Alaska, to complain about claim jumpers. He isn't there, so they drown their sorrows at Cherry Malotte's gambling house and saloon.Actors
Anne Baxter
(Cherry Malotte)
Jeff Chandler
(Roy Glennister)
Rory Calhoun
(Alex McNamara)
Barbara Britton
(Helen Chester)
John McIntire
(Dextry)
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