The Spoilers (1923 film)


The Spoilers is a 1923 American silent drama 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, 1930, 1942, and finally in 1955.
The character of Cherry Malotte also appears in Beach's The Silver Horde.

Cast

A print of The Spoilers is listed as being held by the Gosfilmofond Russian state archive.