{"id":30202,"date":"2022-07-16T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30202"},"modified":"2022-07-16T07:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T11:47:59","slug":"the-spoilers-1942-starring-marlene-dietrich-randolph-scott-john-wayne-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30202","title":{"rendered":"The Spoilers\u00a0(1942) Starring Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott &#038; John Wayne \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z071622zview_thespoilers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"777\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Spoilers<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>(1942)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:&nbsp; <strong>Ray Enright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by:&nbsp; <strong>Lawrence Hazard, Tom Reed <\/strong>based on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3yyYFGM\"><strong> The Spoilers<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;novel by <strong>Rex Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:&nbsp; <strong>Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay <\/strong>and <strong>Harry Carey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> BOLD WOMEN! BRAWNY MEN! Living&#8230;loving in the Hot-spot of the Frozen North!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roy Glennister (Wayne) and his partner, Al Dextry (Carey) are goldminers in a partnership with saloon owner, Cherry Malotte (Dietrich).&nbsp; The trio&#8217;s goldmine has a rich vein and they found it.&nbsp; Things are looking good until the new gold commissioner, Alex McNamara (Scott) arrives.&nbsp; McNamara is claim-jumping mines that are paying off! He&#8217;s doing it &#8220;legally&#8221; with the backing of a crooked judge that he secretly has in his pocket.&nbsp; In addition, to Glennister&#8217;s mine, McNamara has his eyes on Glennister&#8217;s woman, Cherry Malotte!&nbsp; The tension mounts as it becomes obvious there is only one way this will end&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was surprised at the innuendo in dialogue and actions of Dietrich, Wayne and Scott.&nbsp; There is a whole other level to this film that you usually don&#8217;t see in westerns of the 1940s.&nbsp; Wayne&#8217;s character is a player!&nbsp; I loved Randolph Scott as the bad guy!&nbsp; There is chemistry between the Dietrich, Wayne and Scott that adds to the believability of the film.&nbsp; The climatic fight between Wayne and Scott lives up to it&#8217;s reputation.&nbsp;<em> The Spoilers<\/em> is a fun ride and rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z071622zview_thespoilers2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spoilers&nbsp;(1942) Director:&nbsp; Ray Enright Screenplay by:&nbsp; Lawrence Hazard, Tom Reed based on&nbsp; The Spoilers&nbsp;novel by Rex Beach Starring:&nbsp; Marlene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30214,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30202\/revisions\/30214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}