Life's Whirlpool [SEP] director
Life's Whirlpool
Life's Whirlpool is a 1917 American silent drama film written and directed by Lionel Barrymore with his sister Ethel Barrymore as the star. This is the brother and sister's only collaboration on a silent film as director and star.
This film should not be confused with "McTeague" (also known as "Life's Whirlpool"), the first film adaptation of Frank Norris's "McTeague".
The Lionel Barrymore directed film was produced by B. A. Rolfe and released through Metro Pictures. Barrymore
cues. Among the changes that he made to Norris's novel was giving McTeague the first name of John and omitting Norris's anti-Semitism. "McTeague" had been filmed once before as "Life's Whirlpool", a five-reel short by William A. Brady's World Pictures, starring Broadway star Holbrook Blinn as McTeague, which had been released in 1916. Film critics disliked this version and Stroheim later criticized Blinn's performance. According to film historian Kevin Brownlow, "Life's Whirlpool" was also shot on