

“The Film of Films”
When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.
Directed by Erich von Stroheim, Louis B. Mayer
User score
203 votes




Released
December 4, 1924
2h 20m
No Language
Budget → Revenue
$665.6K → $274.8K

Gibson Gowland
John McTeague

Zasu Pitts
Trina

Jean Hersholt
Marcus

Dale Fuller
Maria

Tempe Pigott
Mother McTeague

Sylvia Ashton
Mommer Sieppe

Chester Conklin
Popper Sieppe

Joan Standing
Selina
Jack Curtis
McTeague Sr. (uncredited)
James F. Fulton
Cribbens a Prospector (uncredited)
Florence Gibson
Hag (uncredited)

Cesare Gravina
Zwerkow a Junkman (uncredited)

Frank Hayes
Charles W. Grannis (uncredited)
Austen Jewell
August Sieppe (uncredited)
Tiny Jones
Mrs. Heise (uncredited)
Lillian Lawrence
Gossip (uncredited)

Hughie Mack
Mr. Heise (uncredited)

Jack McDonald
Placer County Sheriff (uncredited)

Fanny Midgley
Anastasia Baker (uncredited)

Lon Poff
Lottery Agent (uncredited)