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Eric Von Stroheim's "Greed"; DVD release?
Topic Started: Dec 17 2011, 07:02 AM (532 Views)
Inspector Carr
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As early as the spring of 2010 rumors were spreading that TCM were going to release Greed on DVD.....To the best of my knowledge it has never gone beyond the rumor stage....and with the reconstructed 4 hour version on VHS (which I believe is out of print).....I have heard nothing else....Any one heard anything new in the rumor mill?
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JazzGuyy
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Not me. I've still got the old LaserDisc of the 4-hour version and it's about the only LD I have that has never had a DVD version.
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panzer the great & terrible
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We're showing the original release version of GREED at Redding in 2012.
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JazzGuyy
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What is the running length?
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panzer the great & terrible
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About 2 hours plus a little. It's a regular movie without the stills added, more powerful because the sequences have an editing rhythm not constantly interrupted by archival interpolations.

We will never, alas, see Greed as Stroheim intended it, but what he intended wouldn't have worked commercially in the mid-Twenties. The irony is that today, on TV, it would be fine. Too bad, but he was wildly impractical. Thalberg, who had just taken over at Metro, had it in for him because of his grandiose behavior at Universal, and the rest is history.
Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Dec 23 2011, 07:37 AM.
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They showed this on TCM the other night morning in the wee hours. I recorded it, but haven't yet watched it.
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