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Greed is a 1924 dramatic silent movie about an honest dentist whose wife wins a lottery ticket, only to become obsessed with money. When her former lover betrays the dentist as a fraud, all of their lives are destroyed. It stars Gibs on Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt and Chester Conklin. 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ...
ZaSu Pitts (3 January 1894 - 7 June 1963) was a United States movie actress. ...
Jean Hersholt (July 12, 1886 - June 2, 1956) was an Danish actor. ...
The movie was adapted by Joseph Farnham (titles) and June Mathis from the novel McTeague by Frank Norris. It was directed by Erich von Stroheim. Joseph Farnham (December 2, 1884 - June 2, 1931) is an Academy Award-winning film writer and film editor of the silent movie era to the early 1930s. ...
Benjamin Franklin Norris (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, the United States first important naturalist writer. ...
Erich Von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 - May 12, 1957) was a filmmaker and actor, noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts. ...
The story of t he making of the movie has become a Hollywood legend. Von Stroheim attempted to film a version of the book complete in every detail. To capture the authentic spirit of the story, he insisted on the filming on location in San Francisco and the Sierra Nevada mountains, despite harsh conditions. The result was a final print of the film that was over eight hours in length, produced at a cost of over $500,000--an unheard of sum at that time. The studio forced him to edit th e film to a more manageable length, and he reluctantly delivered a print with a running time of just over four hours. The film was then removed from his control and cut further, despite his protests. Even key characters were removed from the final versi on so that it could be screened in a reasonable timeframe. Existing prints of Greed run at about two hours and twenty minutes. The hours of cut film were destroyed, and this film is known as one of the most famous "lost" movies of Hollywood. ...
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In 19 99, Turner Entertainment (the film's current rights holder) decided to "recreate," as close 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. The re-edit was produced by Rick Schmidlin (Touch Of Evil, Elvis That's The Way It Is -Special Edition ,Edison/Dickson Sound Test)This restoration (such as it is) runs almost four-and-a-half hours. (Other classic films with missing footage include Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons and Frank Capra's Lost Horizon.) Turner Entertainment Company was established August 4, 1986 to oversee Turner Broadcastings film library after its acquisition of MGM/UA. In addition to the studio, Turner got its library, which included all of MGMs films, Warner Bros. ...
Orson Welles, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) is generally considered one of Hollywoods greatest directors, as well as a fine actor, broadcaster and screenwriter. ...
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington. ...
Frank Capra Frank Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films. ...
Lost Horizon is a 1937 film in which a group of travelers find a utopian society in the Himalayan mountains. ...
The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...
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