Greed
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Time Out says
Originally planned to run around ten hours but hacked to just over two by Thalberg's MGM, von Stroheim's greatest film still survives as a true masterpiece of cinema. Even now its relentlessly cynical portrait of physical and moral squalor retains the ability to shock, while the Von's obsessive attention to realist detail - both in terms of the San Francisco and Death Valley locations, and the minutely observed characters - is never prosaic: as the two men and a woman fall out over filthy lucre (a surprise lottery win), their motivations are explored with a remarkably powerful visual poetry, and Frank Norris' novel is translated into the cinematic equivalent of, say, Zola at the peak of his powers. Never has a wedding been so bitterly depicted, never a moral denouement been delivered with such vicious irony.Author: GA
Release details
UK release:
1923
Duration:
7 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
Frank Hayes, Tempe Pigott, Jean Hersholt, ZaSu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Dale Fuller
Art Director:
Erich von Stroheim, Cedric Gibbons, Richard Day
Editor:
Joseph W Farnham, June Mathis, Rex Ingram, Erich von Stroheim
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