we be in nome and alaska and miner roy glennister { john wayne } and his partner dextry { harry carey } and be force to fight to save their gold claim from the crooked commissioner and alexander mcnamara { randolph scott } . back by sultry saloon owner and entertainer and cherry malotte { marlene dietrich } and the team must overcome the odds and suspect politician in order to get their just desert . rex beach novel have be adapt five time thus far and and it not hard to see why because the story be as solid a it get . this take on the source have a wonderful sense of fun and adventure ooze from it and the cast be uniformly great and the direction from ray enright be tight and unobtrusive . some fine set piece dot themselves throughout the picture and culminating in a right royal { and lengthy } punch up between wayne and scott . no overkilling or tediously ham sequence be here and this be simply an enjoyable western achieve all it set out to achieve from the off . positive .