A confrontational message was sent to Spider-Man: "Stop us if you can." Red-suited Spider-Man sought Harry""s help ("She needs us"), but he declined - although after he learned from his butler Bernard the truth of his father""s death ("he died by his own hand"), he reversed his mind and joined Spider-Man as a team ("You came") to save him from death (the newscaster had just warned: "It could be the end of Spider-Man") in a brutal fight against Venom and Sandman.Greed, still a powerful masterpiece, is only a truncated fragment of its original form that was first presented to the Goldwyn Company (the first cut was 47 reels, the second cut was approximately seven hours and 42 reels long).It was his 115th feature film, and he was already a four-time Best Director Oscar winner (The Informer (1935),The Grapes of Wrath (1940),How Green Was My Valley (1941), andThe Quiet Man (1952)) - all for his pictures of social comment rather than his quintessential westerns.It was Dietrich""sfirstfilm after becoming an American citizen - and appropriately, it was an American western.