Erich Von Stroheim's "Greed"
Greed's Missing Hours
My article on "Greed's" missing pieces.
Greed Reconstructed
The six hour reconstructed version.
Background
On various aspects of the story and film.
Greed Picture Book
Stills and photos from "Greed" and Von Stroheim's career.
Links
Silents, Von Stroheim, Pitts, Norris, San Francisco, et al.
 | Erich von Stroheim's 1924 epic motion picture "GREED" |
Foreword
by Erich von StroheimI have never met Peter Noble . . . I only know him through his writings . . . particularly through the praises he has showered over me and my work during the past few years.
My sincere thanks go to him for his endeavours on my behalf, and to all who have contributed constructive criticism to this book. But whether my fellow-men praise or belittle my work, I have found my conscience clean and clear.
And when the last scene will have been written and filmed. And the ink will have crusted on the pen-point, and the film will have turned brittle and the emulsion dried to cracking . . . and the money-changers will continue to run clashing after "new men" . . . I will be thinking of the grim long grind of the years of my life that I have put behind me, and of my work . . . that I have built up, reel by reel . . . sincere work . . . holding to it with clutched hands and clenched teeth. I shall be able to say :
"I never bargained . . . and I never took off my hat to convention nor fashion . . . and held it out for pennies . . .
I have always told them the truth as I saw it . . .
They liked it or they did not like it . . .
But it was the truth anyway . . . as I saw it . . .
And that clear conscience is my reward . . ''Paris, February 1950
