McTeague (film)

McTeague (Life's Whirlpool)
Fania Marinoff and Holbrook Blinn in Life's Whirlpool (McTeague)
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 date	January 10, 1916
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent film (English intertitles)

McTeague (also known as Life's Whirlpool) is a 1916 American silent film drama directed by Barry O'Neil. The first motion picture adaptation of Frank Norris's 1899 novel McTeague, the film stars Holbrook Blinn and Fania Marinoff as McTeague and Trina. These roles were later played by Gibson Gowland and Zasu Pitts in Eric von Stroheim's 1924 adaptation of the novel, Greed. Blinn was already famous for playing brutal characters on the stage, as in Salvation Nell (1908).

The film is now considered a lost film.

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