Stroheim

But what cinephile wouldn’t trade a bag of gold to get a look at Erich Von Stroheim‘s original, lost nine-hour cut of “Greed?”

There’s a type of blunt, brutal fable about men and avarice that has been reworked every decade or so since Erich von Stroheim’s silent epic “Greed” was released in 1924.

At the end of Erich von Stroheim's classic 1924 silent film, "Greed," two men are stuck in Death Valley with money they both want just out of reach.

Although Erich von Stroheim’s mauled 1924 masterpiece “Greed” is nearly 100 years old, it is sufficiently monumental that adopting its title can still seem like an attempted flex.

But have you found that people don’t know her for any of her other films, including Erich von Stroheim’s silent 1928 masterpiece, “The Wedding March”?