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- 1925
- Erich von Stroheim
- 134 mins
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A star rating of 5 out of 5.
Tom Hutchinson
This is the epic that ensured that director Erich von Stroheim was, ever after, seen as a genius who could not be trusted. Made over two years, this classic silent adaptation of Frank Norris's novel McTeague was planned to last ten hours, but MGM took it away from its creator and cut it down to a more commercial size. An exercise in vicious irony, it tells the story of an unqualified dentist (Gibson Gowland), engaged to ZaSu Pitts, who becomes a lottery winner but then refuses to spend any of the money. Jean Hersholt, his vengeful friend and Pitts's former suitor, then sets out to destroy Gowland's career. For von Stroheim, human beings were just predatory animals and this moral squalor is never more evident than in the wedding scenes. His obsession with realistic detail reached its zenith during the final sequences in Death Valley, where the actors suffered hugely for the director's art.
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rolenameMcTeagueGibson GowlandTrinaZaSu PittsMarcus SchoulerJean HersholtMr SieppeChester ConklinMrs SieppeSylvia AshtonSieppe TwinOscar GottellSieppe TwinOtto GottellOld GrannisFrank Hayes
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