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8.7
/10
859 Ratings

GREED

Directed by Erich von Stroheim
United States, 1924
Silent, Drama
  • 140140 minutes

Synopsis

John McTeague, after working as a miner, becomes a dentist but the sudden fortune won from a lottery by his wife Trina, who buys gold with it, brings Trina’s former lover Marcus in the picture and fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.

Synopsis

John McTeague, after working as a miner, becomes a dentist but the sudden fortune won from a lottery by his wife Trina, who buys gold with it, brings Trina’s former lover Marcus in the picture and fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.