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Von Stroheim digs at his characters' weaknesses with ferocious irony, exposing recurring hypocrisy and ugliness whenever money enters the picture. Visually, the director understood the thematic importance of setting his characters against contrasting landscapes, and Greed was among the first films shot almost entirely on location. As it moves from the buzzing, crowded streets of San Francisco to the haunting last images in the desolate wasteland of Death Valley--a place where money has no value--von Stroheim's ruthless satire demolishes everything American in its path. --Dave McCoy
| ACTORS: | Zasu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Erich von Stroheim |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 26 January, 1925 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Special Edition, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Classics (Silents/Avant Garde) |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 027616136039 |
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Customer Reviews of Greed (75th Anniversary Restoration)
A Timeless Masterpiece! This is without a doubt one of the most important films ever made. The effects of the severe editing (it originally ran over 9 hours) are noticeable but it remains a powerfully condensed masterpiece. Erich Von Stroheim put his heart and soul into making this epic based on the novel 'McTeague' and he creates a timeless film that remains powerful and moving. ZaSu Pitts is devastating as the money grubbing Trina and Gibson Gowland is unforgettable as the gentle giant McTeague. The story is as old as sand but it still works, a couple who is slowly consumed by greed and ultimately makes McTeague a double murderer, killing his only true love and his best friend. The last scenes in Death Valley are unforgettable. One of the greatest silent films. From a scale of 1-10 I give this film a 10!
maybe the greatest ever
greed is not only the greatest silent film of all time,it is arguably the greatest film of all time period. it is cetainly the most ambitous,originaly running close to 9 hours in lentgh and bieng filmed on location in all the exact spots that are claimed in the book. to my knowledge no one has before or since filmed a movie from a book with every single line of the book on every page included in the film. the book is McTeague written by frank norris in 1899. von stroheim claims he read the book while literally starving as an extra. a dark tragic tale of a simple man who trys to be nothing but good but gets caught up in tragedy and eventually murder,a victim of cicumstances beyond his control.mcteague becomes a dentist and falls in love with trina who is bieng courted by her cousin marcus. marcus and mcteague are close friends and one day after telling marcus that he {mcteague} is in love with trina,marcus lets mcteague have her.soon they plan to be married and then discover that trina has won a lottery wich disolves the friendship of marcus and mcteague. after the wedding trina becomes more and more obssessed and cheaper and greedier wich splits her and her simple minded husband. to divulge any more of the plot would do an injustice to any who wish to see it.the couple slowly descend into a madness that overtakes all involved.moody dark and deeply involving i highly recommend the four hour version wich reveals some of the subplots that were cut from the original 9 hour film.
Stroheim's masterpiece!
Greed meant for Stroheim his signature which let him establish a timeless commitment with the art in the highest sense of the exppression.
Greed talks about the eternal human condition . Stroheim shows us with no mercy horror , the deep and dark regions of the human soul.
There are images far beyond its own time , through the melting images he gets a rapport with our sensibility and our rational mood , without any kind of explanation . And we have to recognize a certain shakesperian mood in what this point means.
The ending sequence in the Death Valley youn may consider one of the most shocking and creative solutions ever given for a defiat script like this one .
This film will be a classical for a long long time , because it owns the trademark of the immortality . The questions he talks about don't belong to a specific moment of the story . The genius is always contemporanean.
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