Life's Whirlpool (1916)

Name: Life's Whirlpool
Genre: Drama
Released: 1916-01-10

50m

Running Time

Plot.

Eight years before the release of Erich Von Stroheim's Greed, Frank Norris's 1899 novel McTeague was adapted to the screen by World Film. The basic story pretty much follows the book: McTeague (Holbrook Blinn) is a coarse young man who becomes a dentist, after a fashion. He is rivals for the hand of Trina Sieppe (Fania Marinoff) with his pal Marcus Schuller (Walter Green). McTeague weds her and she wins the lottery. But she refuses to let go of the money, and her miserly attitude destroys the marriage.

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Cast & Crew.

Holbrook Blinn

McTeague

Walter Greene

Marcus Schuller

Fania Marinoff

Trina Sieppe

Philip Robson

Mr. Sieppe

Rosemary Dean

Selina Sieppe

Eleanor Blanchard

Maria Cappa

Julia Stuart

Mrs. Sieppe

Frank Norris

Novel

Barry O'Neil

Writer / Director

Eugenie Magnus Ingleton

Writer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
January 10, 1916

Status
Released

Running Time
50m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-04-12

Wiki.

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).

The film is considered a lost film.