"Greed" (1924) - FULL

Silent. In black and white. Directed by Erich von Stroheim. Running time: approximately 4 hrs.


From Wikipedia.

"One of the most famous lost films in cinema history, it is also considered one of the greatest films ever. [...] To capture the authentic spirit of the story, [von Stroheim] insisted on filming on location in San Francisco, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and Death Valley, despite harsh conditions. [...] The result was a final print of the film that was an astonishing ten hours in length, produced at a cost of over $500,000 — an unheard of sum at that time (though Stroheim's 1921 film, "Foolish Wives" was publicized by Universal as costing over a million). After screening the full-length film once to meet contractual obligations, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that acquired Goldwyn during production, forced von Stroheim to edit the film to a more manageable length, and, with the assistance of fellow director Rex Ingram and editor Grant Whytock, he reluctantly trimmed the film to about four hours. In 1999, Turner Entertainment (the film's current rights holder) decided to "recreate", as closely as possible, the original version by combining the existing footage with still photographs of the lost scenes, in accordance with an original continuity outline written by director Erich von Stroheim. This restoration runs almost four hours."

"Greed" (1924) FULL (in 29 parts)

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