McTeague (Life's Whirlpool) |
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Fania Marinoff and Holbrook Blinn in
Life's Whirlpool (McTeague) |
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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
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January 10, 1916 |
Running time
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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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