An adventuresome 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
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Tyrone Power | ... | Larry Darrell | |
| Gene Tierney | ... | Isabel Bradley | |
| John Payne | ... | Gray Maturin | |
| Anne Baxter | ... | Sophie MacDonald | |
| Clifton Webb | ... | Elliott Templeton | |
| Herbert Marshall | ... | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| Lucile Watson | ... | Louisa Bradley | |
| Frank Latimore | ... | Bob MacDonald | |
| Elsa Lanchester | ... | Miss Keith | |
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Fritz Kortner | ... | Kosti |
| John Wengraf | ... | Joseph - Butler | |
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Cecil Humphreys | ... | Holy Man |
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Harry Pilcer | ... | Specialty Dancer |
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Cobina Wright Sr. | ... | Princess Novemali |
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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. 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 and an abusive brute. Larry tries to rehabilitate her, but his efforts are sabotaged by Isabel who tries in vain to reignite Larry's interest in herself. Written by Richard Blinkal <phelam@netcom.com>
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india | spirituality | pilgrimage | controlling relationship | controlling female |Taglines:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
25 December 1946 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge See more »Edit
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$1,200,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Elliott Templeton: His Holiness has been graciously pleased to revive, in my favor, my old family title.
W. Somerset Maugham: Your what?
Elliott Templeton: Oh, didn't you know? I'm descended, in the female line, from the Count de Lauria, who came over to England with Philip II to marry the maid of honor to Queen Mary. As an American citizen, I feel it more modest not to use my title except on all my personal linen.
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(1921) (uncredited)
Music by Louis Silvers
Played as dance music at the dinner party
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W. Somerset Maugham's contract stipulated that unless principal photography was begun by February 2, 1946, the studio would have to pay the author an additional $50,000. Location shooting began in Denver in August 1945, thus meeting the terms of the contract. See more »Goofs
Tyrone's sideburns don't match and keep changing at the beginning of the film. See more »Quotes
W. Somerset Maugham: [about Elliott's monogrammed robe] Elliott, what the devil's that crown doing over your initials?Elliott Templeton: His Holiness has been graciously pleased to revive, in my favor, my old family title.
W. Somerset Maugham: Your what?
Elliott Templeton: Oh, didn't you know? I'm descended, in the female line, from the Count de Lauria, who came over to England with Philip II to marry the maid of honor to Queen Mary. As an American citizen, I feel it more modest not to use my title except on all my personal linen.
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When the screenplay credits are shown, a curious symbol appears near W. Somerset Maugham's name. It's a symbol meant to ward off the evil eye, and it more often than not appeared on the covers of many of Maugham's novels. See more »Soundtracks
April Showers(1921) (uncredited)
Music by Louis Silvers
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W Somerset Maugham's is a character in his own "The Razor's Edge". He's played by Herbert Marshall and he's given the hardest lines to deliver: "He looks extraordinarily happy, calm yet aloof" He's talking about Larry, Tyrone Power's character, after his enlightening trip to India. Power returns and reintroduces himself in the life of Isabel, played by the impossibly beautiful Gene Tirney. The world that Powers discovers in India will give this all consuming melodrama a spiritual tinge. Edmund Goulding choreographs the unfolding with surprising results. Tirney's beauty permeates the whole film and her character is as truthful as it is cruel although she doesn't mean to be neither truthful nor cruel. Anne Baxter as the tragic Sophie gets an Academy Award while Clifton Webb camps it out shamelessly. Loved the scene of the coin and John Payne's headache. Gene Tirney's reaction to Tyrone Power, as he works the "miracle", is the best acting of her entire career. Deserves to be seen.