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Plot. Influences and critical reception. References. External links. The Razor's Edge is a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life.
- W. Somerset Maugham
- 1944
A young man seeks spiritual enlightenment after WWI and loses his fiancée, who tries to win him back in Paris. IMDb provides cast, crew, reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Oscar-winning film based on W. Somerset Maugham's novel.
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- Drama, Romance
- Edmund Goulding
- 1946-12-25
The Razor's Edge is a 1946 American drama film based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel of the same name. It stars Tyrone Power , Gene Tierney , John Payne , Anne Baxter , Clifton Webb , and Herbert Marshall , with a supporting cast including Lucile Watson , Frank Latimore , and Elsa Lanchester .
The Razor’s Edge, philosophical novel by W. Somerset Maugham, published in 1944. The novel is concerned in large part with the search for the meaning of life and with the dichotomy between materialism and spirituality. Set in Chicago, Paris, and India in the 1920s and ’30s, it involves characters.
With Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott. He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.
- John Byrum
- 1 min
48,580 ratings4,199 reviews. Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob.
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A novel by W. Somerset Maugham about Larry Darrell, a young man who seeks the meaning of life after World War I. He travels across Europe and India, exploring different philosophies and religions, until he finds enlightenment in the Himalayas.
