The Spoilers is a 1930 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Edwin Carewe and starring Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, and Betty Compson.

The official synopsis from Paramount Pictures' press kit: In the days of the Alaskan gold rush, Roy Glenister and Joe Dextry are returning to Nome, where, with another partner, Slapjack Simms, they own a rich mine.

McNamara, who wants to marry Helen, takes the partners' personal money, and Roy has to "rob" his own mine in order to send Wheaton, the lawyer, to the San Francisco Court of Appeal.

Roy sees the shack blown up, and follows the escaping McNamara to town, where he overcomes him after a terrific fight, just as Wheaton arrives with a new judge and marshal.

Kay Johnson is not happily cast in the part of Helen Chester, the girl who falls in love with Glenister, impersonated by Gary Cooper.

Through his attempt to give all the dozen characters a chance in this picture, Edwin Carewe's direction results in no little confusion.

[2]Finally, Hall criticized the film's "general lack of intelligence" and the narrative, which "runs from one scene to another with too much threatening talk and an ineffectual misunderstanding between Glenister and Helen Chester, who are in love with each other.