 The filming of the climax was actually the subject of an early  silent newsreel. The facts reported by the newsreel concerning the  Death Valley portion of the shooting: it took a day just to reach  the location from the town of Keeler, California, they rode in a  combination of cars and horses (one of the cars had the word "Greed"  stenciled on it), water had to be rationed and they shot in August  when temperatures were over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.