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7.3When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.
Cast
- Gibson Gowland as John McTeague
- Zasu Pitts as Trina
- Jean Hersholt as Marcus
- Dale Fuller as Maria
- Tempe Pigott as Mother McTeague
- Sylvia Ashton as Mommer Sieppe
Themes
- gold
- greed
- marriage
- lottery
- gold mine
- money
- tragedy
- murder
- poverty
- wedding
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Erich von Stroheim
- Screenplay by
- Erich von Stroheim Contractually credited: June Mathis
- Based on
- McTeague , 1899 novel, by Frank Norris
- Produced by
- Erich von Stroheim Abe Lehr Irving Thalberg
- Starring
- Gibson Gowland ZaSu Pitts Jean Hersholt
- Cinematography
- Ben F. Reynolds William H. Daniels
- Edited by
- Erich von Stroheim Frank Hull, (42- reel and 24-reel versions) Rex Ingram Grant Whytock , (18-reel version) June Mathis Joseph W. Farnham , (10-reel version)
- Music by
- William Axt
- Production company
- The Goldwyn Company–Metro-Goldwyn
- Distributed by
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Release date
- December 4, 1924 ( 1924-12-04 )
- Running time
- Over 9 hours, (first cut) 140 minutes, (original release) 239 minutes, (reconstruction)
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- Silent film English intertitles
- Budget
- $665,603
- Box office
- $274,827
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 140
- FilmAffinity ID
- 724826
- Image
- Greed, 1924, 03 mac e trina al primo appuntamento.jpg
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- Commons category
- Greed (film)
- publication date
- 1924-01-01
- title
- Greed
- review score
- 96%
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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. The film tells the story of McTeague, a San Francisco dentist, who marries his best friend Schouler's girlfriend Trina.
Greed was one of the few films of its time to be shot entirely on location, with von Stroheim shooting approximately 85 hours of footage before editing. Two months alone were spent shooting in Death Valley for the film's final sequence, and many of the cast and crew became ill. Von Stroheim used sophisticated filming techniques such as deep focus cinematography and montage editing. He considered Greed to be a Greek tragedy, in which environment and heredity controlled the characters' fates and reduced them to primitive bêtes humaines (human beasts), a naturalistic concept in the vein of Zola.