The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge
by Edmund Goulding

The Razor's Edge
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Actor: Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Tyrone Power
Director: Edmund Goulding
Brand: TCFHE
Cinematographer: Arthur C. Miller
Editor: J. Watson Webb Jr.
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer: Lamar Trotti
Writer: W. Somerset Maugham
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 145 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Movie Review: Before PTSD
Summary: 5 Stars

I am "hooked" on Bill Murray's "The Razor's Edge" and have recommended it to both PTSD sufferers and to family members for a different type of insight than "The Deer Hunter" and other PTSD movies. In this version the book is followed much more closely and a slightly different slant is given to the character "Larry" but the amazing thing is the way that the PTSD that Larry suffers shows through. I have recently purchased both versions for a friend of mine in the medical field who will be stationed in Afgan soon - hoping they watch both (along with some of Paul Fussell's books) prior to being in country and having to deal with the very problems projected by "Larry" in both versions of this outstanding novel adaptation.

Summary of The Razor's Edge

Narrated by on-screen observer Maugham (Herbert Marshall), this intriguing tale centers on a soul-searching World War I veteran (Tyrone Power) who finds he can not settle back into the world of the upper class. Shunning his planned marriage and career, he travels abroad to seek the meaning of life and career, he travels abroad to seek the meaning of life and causes his distraght fiancee (GeneTierney) to seek solace with another man (John Payne).
The Somerset Maugham novel should be read by everybody at a certain age (say, early twenties), and this 1946 movie adaptation of The Razor's Edge stays faithful to the book's questing spirit. Despite its apparently uncommercial storyline, it was a pet project of Fox honcho Darryl F. Zanuck, who saw the spiritual journey of Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power) as an "adventure" movie. Power, who was newly returned to Hollywood after his military service in World War I, does his most soul-searching work as the WWI vet who needs to find something in life deeper than money and conformity. The search takes him away from fiancee Gene Tierney and her skeptical uncle Clifton Webb and into Parisian streets and Himalayan mountain ranges. Herbert Marshall deftly plays the role of "Somerset Maugham," the observing author, and Anne Baxter picked up the supporting actress Oscar for her brassy turn as a floozy. The picture has the careful, glossy look of the studio system's peak years (you can sense Zanuck "classing it up" and squeezing the life out of it), and Edmund Goulding's tasteful approach is hardly the way to dig deep into the soul of man. If it seems a little staid today, its square sincerity nevertheless holds up well--and it just looks so fabulous. The really amazing thing about the movie is that it was made at all. A 1984 remake, with Bill Murray, is an extremely weird variation on the material. --Robert Horton

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