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Greed (Les rapaces)
Based on the turn-of-the-century novel McTeague by Frank Norris, Greed takes place primarily in the San Francisco of the early 1900's. McTeague (Gibson Gowland), a brutish, earthy man comes to practice dentistry in the lower-middle-class Polk Street district. There he meets and befriends Marcus Schouler (Jean Hersholt).
11 January 1886, Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA
23 January 1858, Naples, Italy
12 July 1886, Copenhagen, Denmark
July 6, 1877 in Copenhagen, Denmark
4 January 1877, Spennymoor, Durham, England, UK
17 June 1885, Santa Ana, California, USA
22 September 1885, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
3 January 1894, Parsons, Kansas, USA
May 08, 2018
On behalf of the minority of film-goers who will, however even they may be shocked by [Erich von Stroheim's] fierce realism, perceive that he has made here a masterpiece in quite a new manner, one feels inclined to thank him.
December 12, 2006
Even in its severely edited form Von Stroheim's masterpiece is just that; a masterpiece.
March 25, 2006
Mr. von Stroheim has not missed a vulgar point, but on the other hand his direction of the effort is cunningly dramatic.
June 09, 2004
Von Stroheim's groundbreaking film is still intriguing.
January 06, 2002
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.
June 17, 2008
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.
January 01, 2000
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.
February 09, 2006
Even now its relentlessly cynical portrait of physical and moral squalor retains the ability to shock, while the Von's obsessive attention to realist detail is never prosaic.
September 03, 2015
A fascinating, exhilarating, immensely satisfying experience.
May 28, 2003
[Stroheim's] obsession with realistic detail reached its zenith during the final sequences in Death Valley, where the actors suffered hugely for the director's art.
February 23, 2012
The picture brings to light three great character performances by Gibson Gowland as McTeague, Jean Hersholt as the chum, and ZaSu Pitts as the wife.
September 03, 2004
Von Stroheim's butchered masterpiece
