The Razor's Edge | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

I suppose most of us are seeking some kind of solution for our daily problems and frustrations, but I'm afraid we have neither the financial means nor the spiritual tenacity to go mountain-sitting in India.

It certainly follows the W. Somerset Maugham novel -- being just as verbose, obscure in its philosophy and jumbled in its construction.

The start is promising and I'm immediately infected by the bombast I observe in the mise-en-scène, although in the second half I get bored when perceiving a narrative repetition planned by a superfluous indulgence. [Full review in Spanish]

Edmund Goulding's version deserves crdit for trying to adapt Maugham's difficult existential movel, but Tyrone Power is miscast and the film is too melodramatic and verbose, failing to illustrate the novel's essence.