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Greed

Greed

Erich von Stroheim


  • Country: USA
  • Year: 1924
  • Language: Silent
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  • Runtime: 140 min.

Erich von Stroheim's adaptation of Frank Norris' naturalist novel McTeague famously ran eight hours in its first version, before it was seized by its studio and brutally hacked down to two— it’s a testament to Stroheim's mastery that his film's overwhelming power remains even in such drastically shortened form.

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Erich von Stroheim's adaptation of Frank Norris' naturalist novel McTeague famously ran eight hours in its first version, before it was seized by its studio and brutally hacked down to two— it's a testament to Stroheim's mastery that his film's overwhelming power remains even in such drastically shortened form. A searing drama about a mild-mannered San Francisco dentist (Gibson Gowland) whose wife (Zasu Pitts) becomes an obsessive, penny-pinching harridan after winning a large sum in the lottery, Greed ends with one of the most legendary sequences in film history, a manhunt through California's Death Valley where Stroheim's fatalistic view of human nature reaches its savagely ironic conclusion.

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