The Spoilers (1942 film)

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

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The Spoilers
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ray Enright
Screenplay by	Lawrence Hazard Tom Reed
Based on	The Spoilers 1906 novel by Rex Beach
Produced by	Frank Lloyd Lee Marcus
Starring	Marlene Dietrich Randolph Scott John Wayne
Cinematography	Milton R. Krasner
Edited by	Clarence Kolster
Music by	Hans J. Salter
Color process	Black and white
Production companies	Frank Lloyd Productions Charles K. Feldman Group
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	June 11, 1942 (1942-06-11)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.1 million (US rentals)[1]

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.[2]

The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Art Direction (John B. Goodman, Jack Otterson, Russell A. Gausman and Edward Ray Robinson).[3]