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`Greed'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19991212
Author:Roger Ebert

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. Its unhappy history is well known. Von Stroheim's original film was more than nine hours long. After it was cut, cut and cut again, it was released at about 140 minutes, in a version that he disowned - and that inspired a fistfight with Louis B. Mayer. It is this version that is often voted one of the greatest films of all time.

The inspiration for "Greed" was McTeague, a novel by Frank Norris about the rough, simple son of a drunken miner, who ...

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