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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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On this episode of The Video Archives Podcast — Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary invite you in to the world of Rex Beach’s The Spoilers. We aren’t covering one version of this movie … we aren’t even covering two versions of this movie — we are talking about The Spoilers in total: movies, books, and even spoofs! Join the gang as we traverse the harsh frontier of 1899 Alaska and stake claim on this story — let’s just hope no one spoils it!
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0:00.0 | Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery invite you into the world of Rex Beaches the spoilers. |
0:06.0 | We aren't covering one version of this movie. |
0:09.0 | We aren't even covering two versions of this movie. |
0:12.0 | We are talking about the spoilers in total. |
0:15.0 | Movies, books, and even spoofs. |
0:18.0 | Join the gang as we traverse the harsh frontier of 1899 Alaska and state claim on this story. |
0:24.6 | Let's just hope no one spoils it. |
0:27.6 | In the classic tale by Rex Beach, honest miner Roy Gloucester gets swindled out of his goldmine claim by the incoming government official Alex McNamara, |
0:36.6 | and the only person he can depend on is his good friend, Cherry Malad. |
0:41.3 | Roger and Quentin debate which version of each character is their favorite, discuss the differences between the book and its adaptations, |
0:49.3 | dissect how each film tells the story in a slightly different way and builds upon the last, and just |
0:55.7 | which final fight scene comes out on top. Well, I'll be a son of a caribou. It's time to start the |
1:02.0 | show. I'm Gala Avery, and joining us now, here's Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery. |
1:10.4 | Thank you very much, Gala. |
1:13.7 | Yes, this is Quentin Tarantino. |
1:17.2 | Hey, and I'm Roger Avery, calling from the Clondack. |
1:20.1 | We're back for another exciting episode of the Video Archives podcast, Kill the Bacalov. |
1:27.9 | So, at the beginning of the video archives podcast, Kill the Bacalov. So, at the beginning of the month of December, we had a big event at the new Beverly |
1:36.2 | cinema that I was very, very excited, and we all attended. |
1:39.3 | And that was a screening of the 1930 version of the novel The Spoilers. |
1:46.0 | The novel was a very, very popular novel at the beginning of the 20th century, written by Rex Beach. |
1:51.7 | And it deals all about the Alaskan Klondike and the rush for gold there and the makeshift city of Gnome before law and order was brought to it and just nothing but wild prospectors and mud and gold and death. |
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