“Greed” (1924) – Movie review
The American silent film Greed (1924) was directed by Erich von Stroheim, and is based on the novel McTeague, written by Frank Norris in 1899.
It is a masterful analysis of the different types of greed. This is one of the seven deadly sins or human faults of the Catholic Church, along with anger, gluttony, pride, lust, laziness and envy. All these deviations of human behavior also appear, to a greater or lesser extent, in some of the characters in the film.