And I do think we undervalue those black actors from the past. More importantly, each of them appears to be having a good time working on the project, making their screen time together a fun experience for the viewer. According to the studio continuity report the fight scene took five days to plot and shoot. Was remade later. It just doesn’t stand the test of time that well.
Reply. During the war she was juggling Jean Gabin, Yves Montand, and General Mark Clark with Ernest Hemingway a friend with benefits though he claimed never to have collected on it.
Education rather than offense is the best way to approach the problem, otherwise you probably will want to limit your viewing of old movies to nothing older than 1950.And we can’t speak for others. Reply . The Spoilers (1942) - Fight Scene by JMoneyYourHoney. In that, Wayne had the better and more colorful character but he was also the antagonist, and lost the fight and girl to Randy. There’s just something so incredibly devious about his character.
It has always been a big brawling Northwestern from the bestselling Rex Beach novel to the latest film version (uncredited, NORTH TO ALASKA is largely THE SPOILERS plot). Universal Pictures, 1942. The Spoilers stars John Wayne, Randolph Scott, and Marlene Dietrich in a tale about claims jumping and legal corruption during the Alaskan gold rush. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay, Harry Carey, Richard Barthelmess, George Cleveland, Samuel S. Hinds. Tags: John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott. REVIEWS AND RAMBLINGS.
And I wondered if anyone caught the sheer blouse Ms. Dietrich wore? Wayne definitely had the more colorful character in this, but it was good to see Scott portraying a villain rather than the stoic, morally upright hero. Based on a novel by Rex Beach. Personally, I prefer Pittsburgh but it was unsuccessful, in relative terms. A Celebration of Western Movies … Pardner! and all but adopted his daughter when he died. | Robert Service most enjoyed watching the filming of the climactic fistfight and wrote the verse: "Johnny Wayne and Randy Scott/ they fought and fought and fought and fought/ With joy they shed each other's gore/ And then they paused and fought some more...".
I timed it. Soundtracks. In another film (same year) called Pittsburgh, Wayne plays the badguy and Scott plays the goodguy. It’s by no means a bad film.
Yep, that’s gotta be a record. McNamara’s underhanded attempts to achieve title to Glennister’s gold mine sets the story in motion. She was always her own woman, female to the core, but with a masculine view of sex. The one in this version ranks with the bar fight in SHANE and the Gregory Peck/Charlton Heston brawl in THE BIG COUNTRY as among the finest and most brutal of their types, certainly in westerns. Garry thinks you are right, that it IS the longest bar fight in western movies.
Part of this likely stems from the fact that the two male leads, John Wayne and Randolph Scott, each went on to much bigger and better projects, leaving affairs like this in their dust. In a way we aren’t giving people today credit for being able to see the cultural differences between then and now and distinguish. Interesting to see Scott play the badguy. Yep, that’s gotta be a record. The Spoilers deviates all over the place from Rex Beach’s book, which by the way, is fun reading. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this LOGO without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. THE SPOILERS. This is the fourth of five film version of the novel by Rex Beach.The previous versions were The Spoilers (1914), The Spoilers (1923), and The Spoilers (1930). | Set in Nome, Alaska, the story follows the conflict between miner, Roy Glennister (Wayne) and a corrupt gold commissioner by the name of Alex McNamara (Scott). Worked out well for all concerned. The longest bar room fight in Westerns history … ?? There’s a story (possibly apocryphal, but knowing Marlene’s reputation, perhaps not) that when Deitrich first spied John Wayne walking across the commissary floor, she turned to the director next to her (Fritz Lang? Play next; Play now; Darker Than Amber full fight by Superseven / Sandra West & More!
There’s some great onscreen chemistry between Wayne and Dietrich, a beautifully filmed scene of a locomotive at night, and one of the most extensive saloon fight scenes that I’ve come across in recent memory. I don’t know about modern opinion, but THE SPOILERSS has always had good reviews whenever it was filmed, and you may have to distinguish between critics and reviews (not the same thing)in that regard. “14 minutes” !!
Director: Ray Enright. It’s Scott, however, who steals the show in his portrayal of the villainous McNamara. I was reading someone’s opinion of the movie that it’s not a great Western (?) In many ways, Mark Harmon’s portrayal of the villain in the made-for-TV film, “Crossfire Trail” based on the Louis L’Amour novel reminds me a lot of Scott’s portrayal of the bad guy in this one. This is also the name of the associate producer of this movie (.