Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

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.

Michael Morrison Zasu Pitts is an absolute marvel, absolutely marvelous in the role of avaricious wife. Watch her face: She is not only unexpectedly very pretty, she is incredibly expressive.Cast usually as the scatter-brained and/or neurotic foil, she showed in "Greed" she could have remained a serious actress.Unfortunately, whatever it was that motivated her character is told, very unsatisfactorily and very uncinematically, in one intertitle, sometimes called a title card.Perhaps the fault is that the original version, as created by director Erich von Stroheim -- and running 6 to 8 hours! -- spelled it out better, and perhaps even explained her more-than-neurotic reaction to her new husband, and apparently to the impending sexual activities expected of brides, but no motivation is given us audience in the badly cut-down version.On a recent (14 June 2015) airing on TCM, "Greed" ran about 2 hours and 15 minutes, and it could have been cut further. The sexual neurosis, so unexplained, could and should have been cut out, since there was never any resolution, and some other scenes, especially some badly edited scenes or shots, could have been eliminated or re-cut.Still another option, as suggested on a discussion board, is to show the original 42 reels as a TV mini-series. I like that idea, very much. It could give us the complete von Stroheim feeling and probably explain all that is now missing.Other than the acting, and every performer is great, and occasional clever camera angles, and some spectacular scenery, I can't really recommend "Greed," except to film fanatics (like myself) and lovers of film history.

timmy_501 Frank Norris's 1899 novel McTeague is one of the key works in American literary naturalism, featuring several hallmarks of the literary movement, which flourished around the turn of the century. Erich Von Stroheim's adaptation, retitled Greed, strictly adhered to the novel and the original nine hour cut must have been a scene for scene translation. This closeness of the film to the source material means that Greed carries over some of naturalism's key themes. Specifically, the film is about John McTeague, a miner's son who attempts to better himself by becoming an apprentice in a trade—dentistry—but ultimately finds himself doomed to failure as mining is what he was meant to do. This combination of determinism and social Darwinism is typical of naturalism's focus on the lack of autonomy of individual humans. Another characteristic of naturalism evident in Greed is a sort of primitivization of human beings as both John McTeague and his father are constantly dirty and covered in masses of unkempt hair. Similarly, in one of Von Stroheim's most inspired scenes, some clever editing compares McTeague's rival Marcus to a cat preparing to prey on a couple of helpless caged canaries. Another key theme of Greed is…greed, which wrecks the lives of the three principal characters. McTeague's love interest Trina is a hard working, thrifty girl who remains relatively happy until she wins a substantial sum in a lottery, after which she becomes a miserable miser as she strives to increase her small fortune. This infuriates the formerly happy-go-lucky Marcus, who gracefully bowed out of a semi-engagement with Trina to make his friend McTeague happy. His opportunism is amplified into psychosis as he realizes he's missed his chance to share a part of Trina's fortune. The money even ruins McTeague himself, who finds it impossible to work for menial wages when his household possesses enough wealth to allow him a relatively leisurely life if only he could convince his wife to use it. The other important characters in Greed are two diametrically opposed couples: there is the greedy couple Zerkow and Maria, who dream of fabulous wealth and the elderly couple Grannis and Miss Baker, who are too busy working to notice each other. Zerkow suspects Maria is hiding money from him and it drives him mad while Grannis sells his business (for the same amount Trina won in the lottery) and settles down to retirement with Miss Baker. The never subtle Norris uses these subplots to posit two possible future future paths for McTeague and Trina. Contrary to my focus on themes common to the novel and film, Greed is not merely an extension of Norris's novel. Von Stroheim makes the film his own as he sets the proper tone with colored filters, carefully controlled zooms, and some reasonably well put together editing. In fact, his filmmaking is considerably more adept than Norris's workmanlike prose. The climactic scenes in Death Valley, which Von Stroheim shoots through a yellow filter, are particularly impressive and are easily among the best of the silent era. In spite of the carefully realized themes of McTeague, I did not enjoy the novel when I read it a few years ago. Like many works of naturalism, some of the character behavior seems stilted—probably to reinforce the idea that humans lack autonomy. Further, Norris's lack of style and his heavy-handedness in slathering on miserable situations make for a rather unpleasant reading experience, which to be fair is not atypical of my experiences with literary naturalism. The most problematic aspect of McTeague, though, is one I've already mentioned: the social Darwinism. It's always difficult to establish intent, even with a writer as heavy- handed as Norris, but it's tempting to see the novel as a snobby dismissal of an irredeemable lower class represented by the buffoonish and reprehensible McTeague. Yet, in spite of my dislike for McTeague, which caused me to stay away from this film for years, I found Greed quite impressive even with its often languid runtime, which is padded out with uncinematic production stills and expository title cards. Von Stroheim has a better sense of characterization and he manages to build some sympathy even for the mostly unlikeable characters here and he infuses the goings on with an epic quality mostly absent from the book. Somehow, Von Stroheim stayed true to a book I didn't like and made a film I found above average nonetheless.

Cristi_Ciopron GREED is the adaptation of Norris' novel 'McTeague', published some 25 yrs before the movie's release and rejected by the literary intelligentsia since, as greater writers arrived; Stroheim was obviously quite fond of the book, he wrote the script.Stroheim's take is daring, his formula is some raw, gritty realism with the usual jargon of the naturalists—instinct, heredity; Gibson Gowland and Hersholt make for an awesome pair of degenerates, two _patibular beings, ugliness abounds, and where ugliness abounds, vice also does.What remains of the movie's cast? Zasu Pitts is fairly known still, Stroheim himself does a cameo; but