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Greed (1924)

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Overview

Director:
Erich von Stroheim
Writers:
June Mathis (screen adaptation and dialogue)
Frank Norris (novel)
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Release Date:
26 January 1925 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved. full summary | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
key silent with surprising images more

Cast

 (Complete credited cast)
Zasu Pitts ... Trina

Gibson Gowland ... McTeague
Jean Hersholt ... Marcus
Dale Fuller ... Maria
Tempe Pigott ... Mother McTeague
Sylvia Ashton ... 'Mommer' Sieppe (as Silvia Ashton)
Chester Conklin ... 'Popper' Sieppe
Joan Standing ... Selina
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Additional Details

Runtime:
140 min | USA:239 min (1999 restored version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Certification:
Sweden:15
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Trivia:
Jean Hersholt was hospitalized after he lost 27 pounds during the filming of the movie's climax in Death Valley. more
Goofs:
Continuity: After Marcus breaks McTeague's pipe and throws a knife at him, men pull McTeague's tie off as they hold him back. The tie is back in place a moment later as McTeague rushes out of the saloon. more
Quotes:
Marcus: There's no water... within a hundred miles o' here!
[the two men hopelessly stand by the dead mule in the middle of the desert]
Marcus: We... are... dead... men!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in U Turn (1997) more

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11 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
key silent with surprising images, 22 March 2004
Author: didi-5 from United Kingdom

Erich von Stroheim made his film version of Frank Norris' novel ‘McTeague', and, as is well-known, it lasted over eight hours. The version which has survived is obviously nothing near that length, and cuts out many of the subplots from the book which had been planned and filmed.

What has survived is a broken masterpiece, starring Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, and Jean Hersholt, which is full of memorable images (not just the final sequences in the desert, but the trip out where McTeague and Trina fall awkwardly in love, and the scene where Trina rolls literally in the golden coins strewn on her bed) and makes you long for more of this film to turn up from the vaults.

There is a marvellous book available which reconstructs much of the lost material through stills, and much of this was amalgamated with the existing footage to ‘restore' the film during the late 1990s. Even in its butchered state, Greed is well worth a look.

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Perhaps one of the best movies ever brownbunnyboy
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On our way to Death Valley Z_cm
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