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Film · MGM · 1924

Greed

Name: Greed scores 38 — Live Historic
Item: Greed
Rating: 38
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38Leave it.

The lottery eats the marriage, the studio ate the film, and the remnant is still the ruin.

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The review

Stroheim's picture was not a crowd. A dentist, a woman, and a lottery win that eats the marriage. Gibson Gowland and ZaSu Pitts end in the desert with the gold. Adults only. I wouldn't put this on with kids in the room. The money is the ruin, and from the win onward the film is plain about it.

MGM cut a very long film, and the studio threw most of it away. What you can see is the remnant the studio left. Say that to the other grown person before you start. The marriage doesn't survive the money. A pile of gold in the desert is not a fortune anyone gets to live on.

Journal

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 38. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Going My Way

50 instead of 38

Going My Way is still a drama film, and it scores 50 instead of 38. What you gain is stewardship: The song works, and the church is still there for the people of that parish.

The eight

6
Industry
A dentist has a real job until the lottery win swallows the work.
5
Household
The marriage is a life the money eats, not scenery around the gold.
2
Piety
No one in the remnant is stopped by conscience once the win arrives.
2
Courage
Carrying gold into the desert is ruin, not a risk taken for anyone else.
2
Republic
Two people and a lottery, with no town or law left standing between them.
6
Temperance
The money is the ruin, so the want is paid out, not rewarded.
5
Truth
The lottery promises a fortune, and the desert is where that promise dies.
2
Stewardship
They finish in the desert with gold, after the studio threw most of the film away.

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Film · MGM · 1945

Anchors Aweigh

38Leave it.

The mouse is the souvenir, and the navy is just the costume that year felt like wearing.

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The review

Two sailors on leave in Hollywood, and one of them helps a boy who wants into the navy. Gene Kelly dances with a cartoon mouse. Frank Sinatra sings. A child can watch most of it. I let ours stay for the mouse, and I was right about the part they repeated later. The mouse dance is the souvenir. The rest is 1945 dressing itself up as a sailor.

The navy here is a romance, not the work. Leave is not a ship. A boy wanting in is the nearest thing to a life, and even that gets sung past. Put it on when you want bright and no argument. Tell the child the dance is the souvenir. Don't tell them the service is a cartoon.

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