Greed (film)/Trivia


 * Executive Meddling: It's hard to blame MGM, really. Audiences, then and now, will not sit through nine-hour movies.
 * To be fair, it could have been serialized into shorter segments. It does seem like Stroheim wanted to make an HBO-style drama but had the bad luck of making it 70 years before that would be possible.
 * It has been said that von Stroheim had a footage fetish--the original cut was nine hours long.