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A 1924 silent film directed by Erich von Stroheim, based on the novel ''[[McTeague]]''. Particularly noteworthy as one of the earliest examples of various "troubled production" tropes, the film's original cut came in at a stunning ''nine and a half hours''. [[MGM]] eventually took the film out of von Stroheim's hands and released it with a running time of about two and a half hours. The shortened film was a flop, panned by critics and disowned by its director.
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* [[Creator Backlash]]: von Stroheim famously disavowed the studio's cut.
* [[Development Hell]]
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma]]
* [[Epic Movie]]
* [[Executive Meddling]]: It's hard to blame MGM, really. Audiences, then and now, will not sit through nine-hour movies.
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