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starring: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webbdirected by: Edmund Goulding
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303333076
Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6303333079
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: March 13, 1995
Running Time: 146 minutes
Sales Rank: 12866
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1946-12
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Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Searching for one's soul
What do you want from life? What does it all mean in the end? Why should one man die & another man live? Is it all just arbitrary?
Here's a sumptuous adaptation of the Somerset Maugham novel about one man's search for answers to those questions. It's done in grand Hollywood style, with a fine cast, beautiful sets, and sharp dialogue. Granted, it takes some minor liberties with the source material, and the acting style isn't as naturalistic as modern viewers might expect. But I think ... Read More
Rating:  - Pretentious, glossy entertainment
The film version of W. Somerset Maugham's novel "The Razor's Edge" must have been another of Darryl F. Zanuck's shameless bids for a best picture Oscar, an obsession with the producer from the moment his 1944 film "Wilson," a biography of the U.S. president, failed to win the gold. The Academy had demonstrated, as they continue to do, that "prestige" pictures, movies that aspire to more than entertainment, were favored over lighter fare, and Zanuck made it a point to have at least one such attraction ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful movie
A mans journey searching for the truth, wherever that might take him and no matter what anyone else wants of him.
The original is so much better that the remake with Bill Murray
Rating: - Knowledge is supreme
Parent's Beware!
If you allow your 14 or 15 year old child to see this movie they will be exposed to a credible individual whose major intent in life is to acquire knowledge and not money. Now you may want to encourage this notion or dissuade it, so be careful. For me, seeing it at the age of 15 was a life altering event; I believe for the good.
Rating: - The razors Edge
A real Somerst Maugham Classic. Wonderfull acting by all the cast members. Not to be missed.
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