McTeague (film)

McTeague
(Life's Whirlpool)
Directed by Barry O'Neil
Produced by William A. Brady (as William A. Brady Picture Plays)
Written by Barry O'Neil (scenario)
E. Magnus Ingleton (scenario)
Based on Frank Norris (novel)
Starring Holbrook Blinn
Fania Marinoff
Distributed by World Film Company
Release dates
January 10, 1916
Running time
5 reels
Country United States
Language Silent film
(English intertitles)

McTeague (aka Life's Whirlpool) was a 1916 American silent film drama directed by Barry O'Neil, the first adaptation of Frank Norris's 1899 novel McTeague. The film starred Holbrook Blinn and Fania Marinoff as McTeague and Trina; these roles were eventually played again seven years later by Gibson Gowland and Zasu Pitts in Eric von Stroheim's re-adaptation of the novel, Greed (1923). Blinn was already famous for playing brutal characters on the stage, as in Salvation Nell (1908).

The film is now considered a lost film.[1]

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Notes

  1. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988


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