The Razor's Edge

1946 145 min ★ 6.9 Drama, Romance

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.

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Cast

Tyrone Power

Larry Darrell

Gene Tierney

Isabel Bradley

Herbert Marshall

W. Somerset Maugham

Anne Baxter

Sophie MacDonald

Clifton Webb

Elliott Templeton

John Payne

Gray Maturin

Lucile Watson

Louisa Bradley

Frank Latimore

Bob MacDonald

Elsa Lanchester

Miss Keith

Fritz Kortner

Kosti

Details

Director

Edmund Goulding

Screenplay

Lamar Trotti

Tagline

"Hunger no love... woman... or wealth could satisfy!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

20th Century Fox

Reviews

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HarrisonHanksHackman

August 16, 2019

★ 7/10

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....

C

CinemaSerf

April 26, 2022

★ 7/10

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 le...