B0001FVDX2

025192313622

1942

1942-06-11

87

1h 27min

Nominated for 1 Oscar, 1 nomination total

Ray Enright

Rex Beach, Lawrence Hazard, Tom Reed

Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne

Charles K. Feldman, Frank Lloyd, Lee S. Marcus

Hans J. Salter

Milton R. Krasner

Clarence Kolster

Jack Otterson

Russell A. Gausman, Edward R. Robinson

Vera West

Vernon Keays

John B. Goodman

Bernard B. Brown, Robert Pritchard

John P. Fulton

Fred Graham, Eddie Parker, Gil Perkins, Allen Pomeroy, Duke York

Eugene Joseff

Charles Previn

Gene Lewis, Marion Pecht, Sid Davis

Drama, Western

Universal Pictures, Frank Lloyd Productions, Charles K. Feldman Group

USA

English

Passed

6.7

2955

The Spoilers is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott and John Wayne.

The Spoilers was adapted to screen by Lawrence Hazard from the 1906 Rex Beach novel of the same name. Film versions also appeared in 1914, 1923 (with Noah Beery Sr. 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. Scott was billed above Wayne in both movies, even though Wayne s role was larger and more important in each, because he was under contract to Universal, whereas Wayne was borrowed from Republic. Dietrich and Wayne had also made the earlier film Seven Sinners together in 1940.

Bestselling poet Robert W. Service (not credited) plays The Poet, a fictionalized version of himself.

The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Art Direction (John B. Goodman, Jack Otterson, Russell A. Gausman and Edward Ray Robinson).

$723,455 (estimated)

Damsel in distress,deception,double cross,bushwhacker,claim jumper