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26 January 1925 (USA)
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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
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key silent with surprising images
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(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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140 min | USA:239 min (1999 restored version) | Portugal:130 min (original version) (20 fps)
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Originally produced with a running time of nine hours. It was only shown once at this length, at a private studio screening. That screening was on 12 January 1924 at the M-G-M studios.
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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.
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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.