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Greed is a 1924 American silent psychological drama film written and directed by Erich von Stroheim and based on the 1899 Frank Norris novel McTeague. It stars Gibson Gowland as Dr. John McTeague; ZaSu Pitts as Trina Sieppe, his wife; and Jean Hersholt as McTeague's friend and eventual enemy Marcus Schouler.
Greed: Directed by Erich von Stroheim. With Zasu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller. The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
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- Drama, Thriller, Western
- Erich von Stroheim
- 1925-01-26
Nov 22, 2021 · Greed (1924) The 1999 TCM "narrative reconstruction", which Rick Schmidlin produced, of Erich von Stroheim's 1924 masterpiece "Greed", synced to the music of Jonny Greenwood. Based on Frank Norris's 1899 novel McTeague. It stars Gibson Gowland as Dr. John McTeague, ZaSu Pitts as Trina Sieppe, his wife, Chester Conklin as Mr.Sieppe, Sylvia ...
- 236 min
Duration: 462' (original cut, lost), 140' (original release), 239' (1999 reconstruction with film stills) Based on McTeague, the naturalist novel by Frank Norris, three contrasting stories on the destructive power of greed, set in California during the first quarter of the XXth century.
Greed is a 1924 American silent psychological drama film written and directed by Erich von Stroheim and based on the 1899 Frank Norris novel McTeague. It stars Gibson Gowland as Dr. John McTeague; ZaSu Pitts as Trina Sieppe, his wife; and Jean Hersholt as McTeague's friend and eventual enemy Marcus Schouler.
Here is a still taken behind-the-scenes during production of Erich von Stroheim's silent epic, Greed (1924).
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Greed, American silent film drama, released in 1924, that was director Erich von Stroheim’s big-budget masterpiece. Hours were cut from the film and are presumed lost forever. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.) Greed is an adaptation of Frank Norris’s novel McTeague (1899).
