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Demetrius Alexis, Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Walter Bonn, John Payne ... see more see more... , Anne Baxter , Eugene Borden , Clifton Webb , Herbert Marshall , Renee Carson , André Charlot , Noel Cravat , Jean De Briac , Ray DeRavenne , Jean Del Val , Cecil Humphreys , Fritz Kortner , Isabelle Lamore , Elsa Lanchester , Frank Latimore , Henri Letondal , Frances Morris , Forbes Murray , Albert Petit , Harry Pilcer , Lucile Watson , John Wengraf , Cobina Wright Sr. , Dorothy Abbott , Louis Bacigalupi , Patti Behrs , Mary Brewer , Mme. Louise Colombet , Marcel dela Brosse , Bess Flowers , Sol (Saul) Gorss , Greta Granstedt , Louis Mercier , Barry Norton , Peggy O'Neill , Albert Pollet , Frances Ray , Richard Shaw , George Sorel , Adele St. Maur , Hermine Sterler , Marek Windheim , Bud Wolfe , Frank Arnold , Juan Duval , Hassan Khayyam , Mayo Newhall , Eddie Das , Fred Farrell , Blanche Taylor , Roger Valmy , George Davis

After several years' service with the Marines in World War II, Tyrone Power made his much anticipated return to the screen in The Razor's Edge. Power is appropriately cast as disillusioned World War I... read more read more... vet Larry Darrell, who returns from hostilities questioning his old values. To find himself, Larry joins several other members of the Lost Generation in Paris. He is disillusioned once more when the society deb whom he loves, Isabel Bradley (Gene Tierney), marries another for wealth and position. She returns to Larry's life to break up his romance with unstable, alcoholic Sophie MacDonald (Anne Baxter in a powerhouse Oscar-winning performance). After Sophie's death, Larry determines that the life offered him by Isabel is not to his liking, and continues seeking his true place in the scheme of things. Acting as a respite between the plot's various intrigues is Clifton Webb as a waspish social arbiter, who ends up a lonely, dying man, imperiously dictating arrangements for his own funeral. The Razor's Edge was based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, who appears onscreen in the form of Herbert Marshall. The film would be remade in 1984, with Bill Murray in the Tyrone Power role. This film re-teamed Tierney and Webb two years after their appearance together in Laura. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Unrated, 2 hr. 26 min.

Directed by: Edmund Goulding

Release Date: January 1, 1946

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DVD Release Date: May 24, 2005

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  • mjgildea
    November 15, 2006
    mjgildea
    A little long but not bad. A great story too.
  • PinkMinkPrincess
    October 28, 2011
    PinkMinkPrincess
    Lovely Oldie,before there was Eat Pray Love, there was Razors Edge about going to India & finding himself, & about Kindness & Priorities, over the Superficial.Gene Tierney & Tyrone Power had to be the prettiest pairing ever, too bad her role was such a Brat who did away with Anne... read more Baxter in such a Callous way.
  • hossein13
    November 30, 2010
    hossein13
    Nov 2010 - I had read the book and seen the movie a very long time ago. Not much had remained with me sympathies of a very personal nature. Overall, I did not like the movie at all. It has all the mediocre characteristics of popular movies of hollywood in that period. Very shallo... read morew and black and white characters, bad dialogs and overdramatic acting and storytelling. The one thing that I can like in the movie is Uncle Elliott who happens to be the only grey character of the movie and brings something to the movie with his wit.
  • sunshineplace88
    January 13, 2009
    sunshineplace88
    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.... read more During a sojurn there, Larry, having attained his goal, is reunited with Isabel. While slumming one night Larry, Isabel and company are shocked to discover Sophie, a friend from Chicago. Having lost her husband and child in a tragic accident, Sophie is living the low-life with the help of drugs an abusive brute. Larry tries to rehabilitate her, but his efforts are sabotaged by Isabel who has tried in vain to reignite Larry's interest in her.
  • jennalynde
    July 18, 2007
    jennalynde
    Tyrone Power is always a delight to watch and brings such a purity needed for this Sommerset Maugam character searching for Truth.

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Emanuel Levy
March 14, 2008
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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 ... Full Review

Jeremiah Kipp
May 15, 2005
Jeremiah Kipp, Slant Magazine

Goulding indulges in voluptuously lit scenes dominated by well-dressed extras, lots of carousing and booze, catty dialogue, and water fountains that upstage everybody. Full Review

Douglas Pratt
November 6, 2004
Douglas Pratt, DVDLaser

Often pushing against Production Code limits, it is a fine execution of the novel

Ken Hanke
January 21, 2004
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Glossy, effective version of the Maugham novel.

March 26, 2009
Variety

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Bosley Crowther
March 25, 2006
Bosley Crowther, New York Times

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Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
February 29, 2008
Michael W. Phillips, Jr., Goatdog's Movies

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Carol Cling
October 31, 2003
Carol Cling, Las Vegas Review-Journal

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Geoff Andrew
June 24, 2006
Geoff Andrew, Time Out

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May 24, 2003
Film4

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