SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

milosprole9 I waited in a long time to see Greed (1924) and I finally got it. I watched one version with 4 hours. It originally shot with 9 and half hours and took two years to shoot, but most footages were lost. They have some footages and used the pictures from it. It was pretty understandable! I thought it was gonna to be cute film, but I'm wasn't right. It's very dark drama with so many shocking and disturbing parts and a few pictures that gave me goosebumps. Very good performances, realistic story and stunning cinematography! It's like Gone with the Wind of the decade.That's one of the greatest silent drama films, 10/10! Highly recommend, you won't regret it even when it's a long film.

gavin6942 The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.Stroheim shot more than 85 hours of footage and obsessed over accuracy during the filming. Two months were spent shooting in Death Valley and many of the cast and crew became ill.During the making of Greed, the production company merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, putting Irving Thalberg in charge of the production. Thalberg had fired Stroheim a few years earlier at Universal Pictures. Originally almost eight hours long, Greed was edited against Stroheim's wishes to about two-and-a-half hours. Only twelve people saw the full-length 42-reel version, now lost; some of them called it the greatest film ever made.In the early 1950s Greed's reputation began to grow and it appeared on several lists of the greatest films ever made. In 1952 at the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux Arts de Belgique, Greed was named the fifth greatest film ever made, with such directors as Luchino Visconti, Orson Welles and Billy Wilder voting for it.There are a great many versions floating around. You will not be able to find the ridiculously long version, but Turner has put together the next best thing, and it seems pretty simple to find a medium-length copy. There are also some out there that look awful and sound worse. Maybe the film is in the public domain or maybe these are bootlegs. i am not sure. But do not watch these copies if you can help it. The least they could have done was put a new soundtrack over the top, but instead they left some awful din.

evening1 A grimly fascinating fable about the thin line between love and hate and how money muddies the divide.McTeague (Gibson Gowland) is a gold miner who's extremely rough around the edges. He can tenderly kiss a lame bird, then the next moment toss a contemptuous co-worker into a canyon. "Such is McTeague." While Mac becomes an amateur dentist, he never really changes in character. Zasu Pitts does seem to evolve as Trina. She goes from being a wide-eyed, frigid naïf to a shifty-eyed, obsessive liar. I'd heard her name but never before seen Pitts, and this is a tour-de-force introduction to her work.Jean Hersholt is the greasy-haired friend in ill-fitting suits. As Marcus, he transfers Trina like chattel to Mac, who -- perversely aroused by the woman while she's under ether, having some teeth extracted -- has confided his lustful cravings. When Trina wins a large lottery, Marcus turns murderously venal.There are some extremely memorable scenes in this film. Who will forget Mac serenading Trina on the "sewer"? Or the sun-scorching death scene in the desert.This film touches on some modern themes, including the sexual abuse of patients, and is mesmerizing much of the time. Even my 11-year-old son was drawn in. I learned on Wikipedia that we have the Danish-born Hersholt to thank for our current translations of Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales. Great work on both fronts, sir!

IMDBcinephile The audience were not able to access the over-excessive time; the lack of humor was an attribute to that as well. They couldn't handle looking at a study of a dramaturgical realistic story. So accustomed to the likes of Arbuckle, Mary Pickwalsh and so many more, Von Stroheim was known for how autocratic he was in "The Heart of Humanity", and this fundamentally changed his image from an immigrant to the bad guy.The story involves Mcteague (Gibson Gowland), a young boy working in the mines; his Mother puts him under the wing of a Dentist, so that he can aspire to something; he shows an aptitude in it and he is signed up to work in Dentist with him. His Friend Markus is given his establishing scene, and we see Mcteague's love interest, Trina (Zasu Pitts) Markus' cousin; the way he initially embraces her is just deeply intimate with her before he gives her a procedure and this underlines the depth of the movie. The Grannis characters are another subplot he centers on; we see how they're deprived of money and have a lust for it. There is another subplot involving Maria, who is a subject of the same thing; riddled with money, but incapable of keeping it with the extravaganza she can spend it with and in such high dosages.Trina gets a bootleg of a lottery ticket and she wins $5,000 through it; she then indulges with it and so does McTeague; however in the duration of their marriage, they idle away, McTeague's establishment is taken over and he becomes redundant, he becomes a drunken dipsomaniac, lost to hitting his wife and feigning his love for her "I'm in a turn" - he goes for houses near the point, but aware that she is prodigal, they struggle to get one.From Frank Norris' novel, he speaks of the charlatan without respect and rightfully so; like in "Citizen Kane" and in modern days "The Social Network", avaricious misers get lost to nothing but Dystopia; what's fascinating is how Von Stroheim directs the actors in a very unbinding but really brutal way. The golden tooth that McTeague finds is his "jewel" and he gives it back to the person who owns his Dentist Establishment.The movie is just brilliant! It is even reconstructed through panels of images in a lot of parts to constitute to its 4hr length, but the metaphors, like a metaphor for gluttony when Stroheim makes everybody at the wedding gorge their selves on food is just a sense that he is truly trying to make us feel this concept sensuously. They are unable to change their house...McTeague gorging into his money is then the real focal point of the movie. It chronicles the mans troubles and instincts at wealth, and even turning on the people that blossom his life. Even when he negotiates with his Friend to take her out of his tutelage, you feel a genuine sense of self indulgence. From what the movie says in its intertitles for exposition, she does have a baby as well.However, now on to why I love it: I love it because Stroheim's brass, bleak and uncompromising reality very much challenges that of our own intrinsic qualities, but dramatised so far that it becomes an extension of the deeper and inhumane; themes so associated now a days, but never done quite as well. Frank Norris said (paraphrased) that he was trying to show this in his novel.Also the cross cutting of Stroheim as he utilizes a Cat's face and puts it frame by frame to the redundancy of Mcteague is deliberately off key; when looking into it is also a rapacious prey looking for its scraps of food as well. Like in "Birth of a Nation" where Griffith uses a Cat and a Dog to portray Hostility, Stroheim is akin to that in that scene. From the very beginning McTeague drunk heartily in celebrations; the pain of his fall makes it all the more unbearable. But withering to the idea established, it fits appropriately. The movie has a certain core that fits tightly into it; it's like a painting, created with the strokes of fervor, only to simplify the intricate idea of life, hindsight or just the wholehearted desires. The thing is the Grannis, Marie and Mcteagues all had it coming in hindsight and this is what is, maybe not endearing, but rather hard hitting.I like Chaplin and so on, but they don't have this type of awe-inspiring effect that "Greed" has on me; inspiring "Sunset" on a way and imbuing an unfortunate legacy as being the most sought out gem of the silent era. However, the version I had was 3hrs 55mins and I would recommend getting this one; it's a hard DVD to locate, but it is possible to get one; you just have to scrutinize the internet and there you will most likely find a copy.For what ever it costs, this movie is definitely warranted for repeated viewings; the "movie" shouldn't even be deemed a movie. It should be deemed a relic from a time, lurking underneath the "golden mines" it seems; the film fanatics all want to excavate it, and collect it, and I was in the same position because I dislike watching movies on the Internet.But for all it's worth, Turner Classic Movies have done a sublime job at reduxing this. Brutally passionate and uncompromising, "Greed" is a movie that shouldn't be dismissed; not by anybody with any serious output to Cinema; it's there as a personal statement for both Stroheim (I think) in his extravagant budgets for movies (this one cost $500,000) and what cinema can do to our manipulation as a spectator; the length only proves that he was really trying to do a story with turns and twists and by doing so has fleshed it out to embrace the suspense.