Greed (1993) [= silent movie based on the novel „McTeague“ (1899) by Frank Norris]

His obsession with realistic detail and determination to extract every ounce of drama from his source, Frank Norris’s novel McTeague, stretched the shooting schedule to inordinate lengths, resulting in a film which ran for over seven hours. 

Jonathan Rosenbaum has made a meticulous study of all the sources. In a fascinating piece of detective work, he reconstructs the history of one of cinema’s greatest ruins.