Rex Beach

A finales del siglo XIX, en plena fiebre del oro, un delegado del gobierno está expropiando, de forma irregular, varias minas cercanas a una pequeña población de Alaska. Entre ellas, se encuentra la de Roy Glennister, un apuesto galán, amante de Cherry Malotte, la hermosa dueña del saloon "El Norteño".

1850. Jonathan Clark, el capitán de la goleta La peregrina de Salem, se enamora en San Francisco de la condesa rusa Marina Selanova, mientras recoge un valioso cargamento de pieles. Sin embargo, ella ha llegado a la ciudad para contraer un matrimonio concertado con el pérfido príncipe Semyon.

The attractive Argentine Don Careless is an adventurer and an excellent swordsman. Don is in love with Maria Moreno, since he had to emerge her jewels and had thereby to kill a shark. Don tries to prevent the forced marriage of Mary with the ruthless revolutionary Colonel Luis Corral. An armed clash between Don and Luis seems inevitable.

A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.

En Alaska, durante la Fiebre del Oro, un buscador es asediado por un empresario que tiene la ley de su lado. Pronto hace su aparición una cantante de cabaret que se convierte en objetivo amoroso de ambos.

In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.

Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.

A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.

In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her with jewels and furs. When not attending to her every need, the business magnate works his mines so he can buy her some more. While he is gone, a gigolo makes advances upon her.

A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.

Roy Glenister (Gary Cooper) lucha por mantener los intereses de sus negocios, sobretodo con la llegada de unos extranjeros que pretenden hacerse con el control.

The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.

The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to turn up at his casino, in trouble and doesn't want his girl to find about it.

A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.

Years after Alaskan storekeeper Gale had rescued his ward Necia from Bennett, her murderous sea-captain father, Bennett shows up seeking his daughter -- and revenge.

A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.

Louise Dresser, una diva de la ópera, es repudiada por la sociedad cuando tiene un hijo ilegítimo y pierde la voz. Así las cosas, vuelve a su casa, pero no es bien recibida. Años después, intentando recuperar el cariño perdido, se hace pasar por testigo de un asesinato; lo que ocurre es que su hijo está involucrado en el crimen.

A nobleman seeks to rescue his bride, who has been kidnapped by his former lover and a bandit.

When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben Murray, he decides to reform and rear Midge properly. The court takes custody of Midge, but Donovan proves himself by recovering a payroll stolen by some of his ex-colleagues, thereby winning Midge and Kitty, his girl.

Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.

The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923)

Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head of a criminal syndicate, wants her for himself. He arranges to have the bridegroom assassinated, and Norvin Blake, a young American (Robert Elliott), almost loses his life in his attempt to save him.

Alaskan railroad magnate Curtis Gordon hires engineer Dan Appleton to design a railroad route up the Salmon River to the rich gold country. Gordon turns down the engineer's proposed route in favor of his own, and Appleton quits. Murray O'Neil, a rival builder, hires him and falls in love with his sister Eliza, while Appleton courts Natalie, Gordon's stepdaughter. Following Appleton's plan, O'Neil lays the trail with a bridge crossing the river in face of Gordon's opposition.

Un hombre decide vengarse del médico que cuando era niño le amputó innecesariamente las dos piernas.

A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.

A tricky woman criminal, in league with an international crook, falls in love with the honest detective tracking them.

Wastrel New York millionaire Roland Van Dam travels to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, looking for adventure and romance. Because the costume he is wearing includes a red gardenia, he is mistaken for escaped prisoner Emile Le Duc by a woman (who turns out to be a long-lost cousin) who was to meet Le Duc, who was to be wearing a red gardenia. It turns out that Le Duc is the head of a vicious gang of counterfeiters, and Roland winds up getting in more adventures than he had hoped for.

Convict Bill Hyde and his friend, Danny Dorgan, break out of prison, but in running from the guards, Danny is mortally wounded. The local doctor, Evan Thomas, tries so hard to save Danny that later, when Bill and the doctor meet in Alaska, the two become friends. A dying man gives his mine to the doctor, but upon discovering that it is worthless, Bill sells it to a crook named John Wesley Slayforth...

Convict Bill Hyde and his friend, Danny Dorgan, break out of prison, but in running from the guards, Danny is mortally wounded. The local doctor, Evan Thomas, tries so hard to save Danny that later, when Bill and the doctor meet in Alaska, the two become friends. A dying man gives his mine to the doctor, but upon discovering that it is worthless, Bill sells it to a crook named John Wesley Slayforth...

Justus Morrow, a young Englishman of family and some wealth, went to Alaska to make his fortune ...

The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex McNamara. The film culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between Glennister and McNamara. It was adapted to screen by Lanier Bartlett from the Rex Beach novel of the same name.