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.

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Budget

$665,603

Runtime

140 min

Box Office

$274,827

Released Dec 1924

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Directed by

Erich von Stroheim

Written byErich von Stroheim, June Mathis

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Gibson Gowland
John McTeague
Zasu Pitts
Trina
Jean Hersholt
Marcus
Dale Fuller
Maria
Tempe Pigott
Mother McTeague
Sylvia Ashton
Mommer Sieppe

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Gibson Gowland

Zasu Pitts

Jean Hersholt

Dale Fuller

Tempe Pigott

Sylvia Ashton

Chester Conklin

Joan Standing

Jack Curtis

James F. Fulton

Florence Gibson

Cesare Gravina

Frank Hayes

Austen Jewell

William H. Daniels

Erich von Stroheim

Irving Thalberg

Erich von Stroheim

June Mathis

Ben F. Reynolds

Louis B. Mayer

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