The ""lost"" film masterpiece is a dark study of the oppressive forces that decay and corrupt three people - a simple, uneducated former miner and dentist (McTeague) in turn of the century San Francisco, his miserly, vulgar and pathological wife (Trina), and their mutual friend and McTeague""s ultimate nemesis (Marcus) - all are caught up by their squalid, debased passion, compulsion and greed for gold.The children argue over who has to do the dishes.Their recently-separated mother (with her back to the table""s conversation), still numb from the loss of the separation and abandonment, turns oward the table, emerges into the light with tears in her eyes and sighs: "He hates Mexico.He was in the midst of negotiations for the release of the four Chinese prisoners, one of whom was his brother.Rachel perished from the detonated bomb when Gordon arrived too late to save her.At abandoned shipyard docks in the hold of a rusted cargo ship, the Joker had piled the mob""s money into a 30-foot high stack (with Lau bound at the top).