Stroheim and based on Frank Norris's novel McTeague. The film depicts
three protagonists who succumb to their darker nature over a mutual
desire for a lottery prize of $5,000 in gold (screenshot pictured). Von
Stroheim shot more than 85 hours of footage, using sophisticated
techniques such as deep-focus cinematography and montage editing, and
obsessed over accuracy during production. Greed was one of the few films
of its time to be shot entirely on location. Two months were spent
shooting in Death Valley for the final sequence and many of the cast and
crew became ill. Originally almost eight hours long, Greed was edited
against von Stroheim's wishes to about two-and-a-half hours by Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer studio heads Irving Thalberg and Louis B. Mayer. The cut
footage is lost, and still sought after by film archivists and
historians. Numerous false claims of the original version's discovery
have been made over the years. In 1999, a reconstructed four-hour
version was released using surviving stills from the lost footage.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed_(film)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1829:
Sati, the Hindu funeral custom of widows immolating themselves,
was prohibited in part of British India after years of campaigning by
Ram Mohan Roy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)>
1893:
First Matabele War: A patrol of British South Africa Company
soldiers was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele
warriors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangani_Patrol>
1909:
The Montreal Canadiens, the oldest professional ice hockey club
in the world, was founded as a charter member of the National Hockey
Association.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Montreal_Canadiens>
1954:
The global hamburger fast food chain Burger King, known for its
signature item the Whopper (pictured), was founded in Miami, Florida,
US.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King>
1971:
The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force, an Ulster loyalist
paramilitary group, exploded a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast,
Northern Ireland, killing 15 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk%27s_Bar_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
intersperse:
1. To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things
of other; specifically:
2. To scatter or insert (something) into or among (other things), as Nature
interspersed dandelions among the petunias, or
3. To diversify (something) by placing or inserting other things among
(it), as Nature interspersed the petunias with dandelions.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intersperse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is love that alone gives life, and the truest life is that
which we live not in ourselves but vicariously in others, and with which
we have no concern. Our concern is so to order ourselves that we may be
of the number of them that enter into life — although we know it not.
--Samuel Butler
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Butler>
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