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While filming the final confrontation in the desert, Erich von Stroheim allegedly shouted several times at actors Gibson Gowland and Jean Hersholt "Hate each other! Hate each other as much as you hate me!"

MGM's first feature-length movie.

This film features one of the earliest uses of a hidden camera in film-making. When Trina (Zasu Pitts) leaves the junk shop after discovering the dead body, she rushes into a real street and into real passers-by who were unaware they were being filmed. A crowd gathered, police turned up to the scene and it is said that a reporter called in the 'murder' to his editor. This coincides with Dziga Vertov's Kinoglaz (1924) which also used hidden camera techniques for the first time.

The first film to be shot in its entirety on location.

Due to the heat in Death Valley, the cameras had to be wrapped in iced towels.

Erich von Stroheim: as a balloon vendor (although only in a deleted sequence). McTeague and Trina buy balloons from the vendor on the street.

Erich von Stroheim: [prostitutes] In a scene that was part of Stroheim's original cut, McTeague's father is shown carousing with prostitutes.