Greed
Dir: Erich von StroheimCast: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt
140mins 1924 US PG English
Greed
When housewife Trina McTeague wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband, John, is slowly destroyed, in part by her own increasing paranoia and in part by the machinations of a villainous friend, Marcus.
'[This] portrait of physical and moral squalor retains the ability to shock, while the Von's obsessive attention to realist detail is never prosaic' - Geoff Andrew, Time Out