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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
- United States
- 1944
- English
Tyrone Power stars as a young man who travels the world in search of enlightenment and loses his fiancée in the process. The film, based on W. Somerset Maugham's novel, won an Oscar and features Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter and Clifton Webb.
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- Edmund Goulding
- Approved
- Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne
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 .
- Darryl F. Zanuck
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
4.19. 48,576 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 ...
A young man travels the world to find himself and loses his fiancée in the process. He returns to Chicago 10 years later and faces a dilemma between his old love and a troubled friend.
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