Fresh
McTeague is surely a great novel, but one reason Greed is even better is that Stroheim had more lived experience to bring to the material.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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Greed
Overview
When 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.
Director and cast
- Erich von Stroheim Director
- 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
- Chester Conklin as Popper Sieppe
- Joan Standing as Selina
- Jack Curtis as McTeague Sr. (uncredited)
- James F. Fulton as Cribbens a Prospector (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
96%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Mr. von Stroheim has not missed a vulgar point, but on the other hand his direction of the effort is cunningly dramatic.
Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
Fresh
Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1925), like the Venus de Milo, is acclaimed as a classic despite missing several parts deemed essential by its creator.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Von Stroheim's rep, after a long dormancy, has been on the rise, and this is the best evidence of his work you'll get until someone finds those lost five hours in some Ukrainian subcellar.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
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