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The Razor's Edge: Directed by Edmund Goulding. With Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter. An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process.
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 is a 1984 American drama film directed and co-written by John Byrum starring Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, Brian Doyle-Murray, and James Keach. The film is an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel The Razor's Edge.
The Razor's Edge is an odyssey of a man in search of himself. The transit nature of life and the brutality of war turn him into a "superfluous" man, who goes off on a quest to find himself. We can inundate this issue with metaphors until the cows come home, but that's Maugham's story.
The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge. Larry Darrell returns from the battlefields of World War I to America a different person. His fiance (Isabel) resigns herself to a delay in the wedding plans when Larry heads off to Paris.
Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929, is invited to live in Paris with her rich, social climbing, Uncle Elliot.
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.
Director Edmund Goulding's epic romance drama The Razor's Edge (1946) has all the shock and intrigue of film noir with the searing passion and stark devastation of a period drama.
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In the dying man's room, they find Elliott sniveling in self pity because he has not been invited to a fashionable party hosted by a princess. Touched by Elliott's distress, Larry convinces the princess' secretary, an old friend of his, to allow him to take an invitation to the party.
THE RAZOR'S EDGE. Bill Murray stars in this adaptation of the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham of a World War I veteran disillusioned by jazz-age values. He breaks off his engagement to Isabel (Catherine Hicks) and sets out on a journey that takes him through the trenches of WW I, the Himalayas of India, and Paris.
