The ""lost"" film masterpiece is a dark study of the oppressive forces that decay and corrupt three people - a simple, uneducated former miner and dentist (McTeague) in turn of the century San Francisco, his miserly, vulgar and pathological wife (Trina), and their mutual friend and McTeague""s ultimate nemesis (Marcus) - all are caught up by their squalid, debased passion, compulsion and greed for gold."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With one Academy Award Oscar nomination: Best Sound Effects Editing.With box-office gross receipts of $147 million (domestic) and $228 million (worldwide), and one of the most successful films of 1989.It was the first film of his so-called "Apartment Trilogy", coming beforeRosemary""s Baby (1968)andThe Tenant (1976).Something that I must ask you...Would you wash out a pair of socks for me?...It""s just my way of telling you that I love you, that""s all.But then, Mrs.Whitehead intrudes, just when Spaulding feels he has Mrs.Rittenhouse on "the five-yard line." He works on Mrs.Whitehead too, complimenting her on her beautiful eyes.He looks toward Mrs.Rittenhouse and includes her, and merges them into one individual: "And so have you." Conversely, he splits himself into two - he describes and then acts out hisownfacial expressions: "He shot her a glance (he shoots his eyes sideways) - as a smile played around his lips (he flutters his own lips).