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Gold
This is a line uttered by a good many in the landmark Eric von Stroheim film, Greed. A fortunate win in the lottery by the future wife of an up and coming dentist is the beginning of the end for her, him and his best friend (among others).
Much as been written about the history of this film: that the first version by Von Stroheim was nine hours long and was cut by him to four and cut again at the insistence of the studio to just over two, that Von Stroheim disassociated from that movie, that he actually got into a fight with Louis Mayer, that he was a terror on the set, and on and on.
A four hour version is being shown on TCM—much of the missing portions are filled in with still photos and expanded intertitles. Even with what is missing and what has been altered, it is easy to see the power of this movie—most especially some of the simply incredible scenes captured by Von Stroheim.
A must-see.
¡Time is not my master!
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