To earn money she becomes a janitor at a children's school. Trina's bitten fingers become infected and have to be amputated.

Later, he goes fishing to earn money, taking Trina's savings (now totaling $450). McTeague finally snaps and bites Trina's fingers in a fit of rage. Money becomes increasingly scarce, with the couple forced to sell their possessions. Even though she has saved over $200 in addition to the original $5,000 from the lottery ticket, Trina is unwilling to spend her money. McTeague is ordered to shut down his practice or face jail. Before he goes, he secretly, in order to ruin his former friend, reports McTeague for practicing dentistry without a license. Schouler leaves the city to become a cattle rancher. Trina and McTeague have a relationship that moves from romance to tragedy. After McTeague and Trina wed, they continue to live in their small apartment with Trina refusing to spend her $5,000.

Schouler bitterly claims that the money should have been his, causing a rift between McTeague and Schouler. Trina eventually agrees to marry McTeague and shortly afterwards her lottery ticket wins her $5,000. After seeing McTeague's conviction, Schouler agrees. McTeague becomes enamored with Trina and begs Schouler for permission to court Trina. As they wait for an opening, Trina buys a lottery ticket. Schouler and McTeague are friends and McTeague gladly agrees to examine her. Marcus Schouler brings Trina Sieppe, his cousin and intended fiancГ©e, into McTeague's office for dental work. Potter agrees and McTeague eventually becomes a dentist, practicing on Polk Street in San Francisco. 'Painless' Potter visits the town, and McTeague's mother begs Potter to take her son on as an apprentice.

John McTeague is a miner working in Placer County, California. Frank Norris, quoted from his essay 'The True Reward of the Novelist', in a title card at the beginning of Greed. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth I knew it for the truth then and I know it for the truth now. I never truckled, I never took off the hat to fashion and held it out for pennies. It is one of the first examples of a psychological drama films in the early 20th century. Greed was a critical and financial failure upon its initial release, but, by the 1950s, it began to be regarded as one of the greatest films ever made filmmakers and scholars have noted its influence on subsequent films. In 1999, Turner Entertainment created a four-hour version that used existing stills of cut scenes to reconstruct the film.

The uncut version has been called the 'holy grail' for film archivists, amid repeated false claims of the discovery of the missing footage. Stroheim later called Greed his most fully realized work and was hurt both professionally and personally by the studio's re-editing of it. Only twelve people saw the full-length 42-reel version, now lost some of them called it the greatest film ever made. Originally almost eight hours long, Greed was edited against Stroheim's wishes to about two-and-a-half hours. Thalberg had fired Stroheim a few years earlier at Universal Pictures. He considered Greed to be a Greek tragedy, in which environment and heredity controlled the characters' fates and reduced them to primitive bГЄtes humaines (human beasts), a naturalistic concept in the vein of Zola.Дuring editing, the production company merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, putting Irving Thalberg in charge of post-production. Stroheim used sophisticated filming techniques such as deep-focus cinematography and montage editing. Two months alone were spent shooting in Death Valley for the film's final sequence, and many of the cast and crew became ill. Greed was one of the few films of its time to be shot entirely on location, with Stroheim shooting approximately 85 hours of footage before editing. The film tells the story of McTeague, a San Francisco dentist, who marries his best friend Schouler's girlfriend Trina. John McTeague, ZaSu Pitts as Trina Sieppe, his wife, and Jean Hersholt as McTeague's friend and eventual enemy Marcus Schouler. Greed is a 1924 American silent psychological drama film written and directed by Erich von Stroheim and based on the 1899 Frank Norris novel McTeague.

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