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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1923
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Les Rapaces Alternative French
Introduction
“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.”
Geoff Andrew, Time Out Film Guide, 2011
The career of Austrian-born director Erich von Stroheim is notorious for the level of interference he suffered from his Hollywood employers. Greed is the most infamously broken-backed of his films, originally screened in a version close to ten hours long but nervously hacked down by the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio to conventional length.
Adapting the 1899 novel McTeague by Frank Norris about the downfall of a lottery-winning woman and the two best friends who love her, Von Stroheim aimed to render the book in complete detail, allowing screen time to develop characters of startling psychological intensity. Expensively, he also insisted on shooting on location, including in the debilitating heat of Death Valley for the film’s tragic climax. Though the bulk of Greed is lost, what remains is considered a milestone for its powerful fusion of naturalism and melodrama.
John Huston’s 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, starring Humphrey Bogart as a gold prospector, is another classic tale of greed in the heat and dust.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Trina Sieppe
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'Doc' McTeague
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Marcus Schouler
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Maria Miranda Macapa
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Mother McTeague
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'Mommer' Sieppe
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'Popper' Sieppe
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Selina, Trina's cousin
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[August 'Owgooste' Sieppe]
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[Max, Sieppe twin]
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[Moritz, Sieppe twin]
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[Old Grannis]
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[Miss Baker]
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[Mr Heise]
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[sheriff]
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[Cribbens, a prospector]
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[lottery agent]
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[Rudolph Oelbermann]
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[Dr 'Painless' Potter,travelling dentist
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[palmist]
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[photographer]
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[Joe Frenna, saloon keeper]
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[minister]
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[Mrs Heise]
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[Mrs Ryer]
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[Mr Ryer]
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[deputy sheriff]
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[Chinese cook]
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[balloon vendor]
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[]
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[]
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[]
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[scenes deleted]
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[scenes deleted]
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[scenes deleted]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
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Assistant Director
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Assistant Director
Production:
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©/Production Company
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Presented by
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Producer
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Business Manager
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Production Auditor
Writing:
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Screen Adaptation/Scenario
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Screen Adaptation/Scenario
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Titles
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From the novel, 'McTeague' by
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Script Clerk
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Director of Photography
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Additional Photography
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Assistant Photographer
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Assistant Photographer
Stills:
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Stills Photography
Editing:
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Editor
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[Editor]
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[Editor]
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[Editor]
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[Editor]
Design:
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Settings
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Additional Art Direction
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Properties
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Properties
Music:
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[Version Music by]
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[1999 Version Music by]
Consultant:
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Consultant on Mountaineering Scenes
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Reconstruction [Producer]
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Reconstruction [Editorial Consultant]
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Reconstruction [Editor]
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Reconstruction [Assistant Editor]
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Reconstruction [Assistant Editor]
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Reconstruction [Assistant Editor]
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Reconstruction [Assistant Editor]
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Reconstruction [On-line Editor]
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Reconstruction [Art Dept. Consultant]
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Reconstruction [Hand Tinted Stills]
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Reconstruction [Title Design Consultant]
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Reconstruction [Visual Effects]
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Reconstruction [Visual Effects]
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Reconstruction [Film Transfer]
Publicity:
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Press Representative
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