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Starring: Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt, Zasu Pitts Director: Erich von Stroheim Production Company: MGM USA, 1924 Duration: 130 minutes Film Print: B&W print available from Photoplay Productions (Film Speed: 16-20 frames per second) Recorded for Video Premiere with Davis's score: 1986, Edinburgh 23 Players: 2(I=picc, II=afl +picc).1.ca.2(II=Ebcl+bcl).asax(=ssax).1.cbsn - 2.2.2(t/b).0 - perc(3) – 2pno(=cel+harmonium) - accordion - vln.db Although Greed was not a financial success in its day, it is regarded now as one of the greatest American films. Greed tells the story of a giant misfit from the Californian gold fields who, after an apprenticeship to a quack dentist, sets up a practice in San Francisco. By wooing an innocent woman away from his best friend, he creates a vicious love-triangle that destroys them all, culminating in a final struggle set in Death Valley. Carl Davis uses very unusual orchestral combinations to capture the expressionist style of the film. There are interludes of spit-and-sawdust piano, parodies of German band music and starkly bleak passages that explore the darker sides of human emotion.