Rex Beach

In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.

1850 год. Джонатан Кларк — капитан судна, противозаконно добывающий тюленей, возвращается на берег после удачного лова и вместе со своим экипажем поселяется в отеле. В это время там остановилась и Марина Селиванова — русская графиня приехала ради брака по договоренности с князем Семеном. Графиня надеется найти в порте Ситки своего дядю, генерал-губернатора Ивана Ворошилова и уговорить его расторгнуть помолвку. Неожиданно графиня узнает, что у Кларка есть корабль с экипажем. Красавица просит его доставить ее к дяде. Джонатан и Марина влюбляются до безумия друг в друга и после ночной прогулки и страстных объятий при луне готовы венчаться уже утром. Однако, князь Семен приезжает в гавань Сан-Франциско и на корабле похищает графиню. Он идет курсом на Аляску и обещает убить Ворошилова, если тот не выполнит свои предыдущие брачные обязательства.

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.

Конец девятнадцатого века, эпоха «золотой лихорадки», охватившей Аляску. На Клондайке правят лихие людишки: ловкие мошенники, алчные дельцы и сорви-головы всех мастей, адела чаще всего решаются с помощью кулаков и безотказного шестизарядного помощника по имени Кольт. Джон Уэйн исполняет роль капитана Роя Гленнистера — честного бизнесмена, у которого силой пытаются отсудить прииск. За вероломной аферой стоит коррумпированный чиновник Александр Макнамара, сговорившийся с местным судьей. Вместе со своей любовницей, очаровательной певицей Черри Малотт, Рой изо всех сил пытается противостоять козням негодяя законным путем, однако, восстановить справедливость можно лишь взяв в руки оружие.

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.

On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivated by Helen Chester, while he both fascinates and disquiets her by his primitive nature. He arrives to find his partners, Slapjack Simms and Joe Dextry, befuddled by a trio of no-gooders: Voorhees, the U. S. marshal, Judge Stillman, and McNamara, a politician. Their racket is to cloud title to the various mine claims, eject the miners, and make McNamara owner of the disputed properties.

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.

A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story in order to get herself back in front of the public again. However, the story she comes up with results in her son being arrested for the murder.

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.

Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.

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.