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Name: The Razor's Edge
Released: 1946-12-1
Cast: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb

The Razor's Edge

NR
2h 25m
1946

56%

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Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne and Anne Baxter star in this acclaimed film based on the 1944 novel from W. Somerset Maugham. When a wealthy Chicago man with a world of opportunity in front of him returns from war, he finds himself disillusioned. He begins a spiritual quest in Paris, then India, and ultimately his two worlds collide in what becomes a powerful test of his resolve.

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Producer:

Darryl F. Zanuck

Writer:

Lamar Trotti

Cast:

Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

56%

Reviews

MovieJawn

Rosalie Kicks

This piece of cinema truly speaks for itself and what it has to say is incredible.

June 22, 2022

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Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Nell Dodson Russell

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.

January 14, 2022

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Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)

David Hanna

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.

June 21, 2017

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