| Life's Whirlpool (McTeague) | |
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 Film still of Fania Marinoff and Holbrook Blinn | |
| Directed by | Barry O'Neil |
| Written by | Barry O'Neil (scenario) E. Magnus Ingleton (scenario) |
| Based on | Frank Norris (novel) |
| Produced by | William A. Brady (as William A. Brady Picture Plays) |
| Starring | Holbrook Blinn Fania Marinoff |
| Distributed by | World Film Company |
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Running time | 5 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film (English intertitles) |
Life's Whirlpool (also known as McTeague) 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 later were played by Gibson Gowland and Zasu Pitts in Eric von Stroheim's 1924 adaptation Greed . Blinn was famous for playing brutal characters on the stage, as in the Edward Sheldon play Salvation Nell (1908).
