
Greed
The Film of Films
A bleak, methodical tragedy about how sudden wealth corrodes human bonds and morality, told with expressionistic intensity and culminating in violence and ruin.
When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.
Essence
Ensemble

Gibson Gowland
John McTeague

Zasu Pitts
Trina

Jean Hersholt
Marcus

Dale Fuller
Maria

Tempe Pigott
Mother McTeague

Sylvia Ashton
Mommer Sieppe

Chester Conklin
Popper Sieppe

Joan Standing
Selina
Jack Curtis
McTeague Sr. (uncredited)
James F. Fulton
Cribbens a Prospector (uncredited)
Florence Gibson
Hag (uncredited)

Cesare Gravina
Zwerkow a Junkman (uncredited)
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