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The Razor's Edge

  • 7.3 /10

  • 84

  • 56%

Plot

An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.

Cast

Tyrone Power as Larry Darrell
Tyrone Power

as Larry Darrell

Gene Tierney as Isabel Bradley
Gene Tierney

as Isabel Bradley

Herbert Marshall as W. Somerset Maugham
Herbert Marshall

as W. Somerset Maugham

Anne Baxter as Sophie MacDonald
Anne Baxter

as Sophie MacDonald

Clifton Webb as Elliott Templeton
Clifton Webb

as Elliott Templeton

John Payne as Gray Maturin
John Payne

as Gray Maturin

Lucile Watson as Louisa Bradley
Lucile Watson

as Louisa Bradley

Frank Latimore as Bob MacDonald
Frank Latimore

as Bob MacDonald

Elsa Lanchester as Miss Keith
Elsa Lanchester

as Miss Keith

Fritz Kortner as Kosti
Fritz Kortner

as Kosti

Movie Facts

Rated

  • Approved

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • November 19, 1946

Production Companies

  • 20th Century Fox

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

  • Français

Budget

  • $0.00

Revenue

  • -

Runtime

  • 2.42 hrs

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I will admit after seeing Gene Tierney in Laura a few years ago I am always looking for movies on TMC with her in them. While this movie doesn't live up to several others I have seen with Ms Tierney, such as: Laura, Leave Her to Heaven, or Heaven Can Wait, it is certainly worth a viewing. The cast is first rate and even though I am not a huge Tyrone Power fan, he won me over a tad in this film…

W. Somerset Maugham's intense character studies are all but impossible to adequately reflect on screen - even in a film that takes 2½ hours. That said, Edmund Goulding assembled a strong cast here to deliver a complex and nuanced series of inter-connected stories that centred around the relationship between "Larry" (Tyrone Power) and "Isabel" (Gene Tierney). Suffering from itchy feet the former l…