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Razor's Edge [VHS]
by (Cinematographer: Arthur C. Miller) (Editor: J. Watson Webb Jr.) (Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck) (Writer: Darryl F. Zanuck) (Writer: Lamar Trotti) (Writer: W. Somerset Maugham)
Director: Edmund Goulding
Product Group: Video
Studio: 20th Century Fox
ISBN: 6303333079
EAN: 9786303333076
UPC: 086162104930
Binding/Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 145 minutes
Original Release Date: 1946-12
Theatrical Release Date: 1946-12
Release Date: 1995-03-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
SKU: VHS-2-Razor-J
Condition: New
Comments: Brand new still in factory sealed shrink wrap.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
The Somerset Maugham novel should be read by everybody at a certain age (say, early twenties), and this 1946 movie adaptation of The Razor's Edge stays faithful to the book's questing spirit. Despite its apparently uncommercial storyline, it was a pet project of Fox honcho Darryl F. Zanuck, who saw the spiritual journey of Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power) as an "adventure" movie. Power, who was newly returned to Hollywood after his military service in World War I, does his most soul-searching work as the WWI vet who needs to find something in life deeper than money and conformity. The search takes him away from fiancee Gene Tierney and her skeptical uncle Clifton Webb and into Parisian streets and Himalayan mountain ranges. Herbert Marshall deftly plays the role of "Somerset Maugham," the observing author, and Anne Baxter picked up the supporting actress Oscar for her brassy turn as a floozy. The picture has the careful, glossy look of the studio system's peak years (you can sense Zanuck "classing it up" and squeezing the life out of it), and Edmund Goulding's tasteful approach is hardly the way to dig deep into the soul of man. If it seems a little staid today, its square sincerity nevertheless holds up well--and it just looks so fabulous. The really amazing thing about the movie is that it was made at all. A 1984 remake, with Bill Murray, is an extremely weird variation on the material. --Robert Horton
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Customer Reviews
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It's not Casablanca, but if you are studying film, it offers easy contrasts
Rating  (4)
Date: 2010-03-22
It's a B&W period piece film made after WWII about WWI (just as M*A*S*H was after Vietnam), but it's based on a 2nd tier of great literature The Razor's Edge. See also a remake by of all people the former comedian Bill Murray (former as in before his remake) The Razor's Edge. Some people might regard the acting as a little stuffy, and the kinds of people they are portraying (upper class) as stuffy; look past that. Also look past the English actors made up to look like Indians (the subcontinent). This was the kind of film making done in that era. This contrasts with earlier musicals or even dramas like Bogart's. It's not a great film, but for its time, it tries to open the eyes of Larry Darrow. As all the principals who made the film has all passed on, the extra audio track has 2 reviewers comment on the good and bad points of the film as well as some history around the film. It's a good period film in its way, and I have to say that it and a number of other films (e.g., the King Solomon's Mines film to the Indiana Jones films) gave me a finer appreciation not only to the evolution of film making but also acting.
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Razors Edge the Beginning of Wisdom
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-03-02
I love this movie and it came in great condition, on time, and well wrapped. Thank you! Margot Terry
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razor's edge
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-02-06
Great Fox movie with an overwhelming cast. Maugham does a Herman Hesse thing that certainly moved types toward non-conformity. I'm certain this flick had a lasting impression on Jack Kerouac. He must have seen it while at Columbia University. The beat era had it's roots with this film. Clifton Webb's portrayal of uncle Elliot a gem. The song Mamoselle has a lasting effect on the production.
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Before PTSD
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-11-27
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am "hooked" on Bill Murray's "The Razor's Edge" and have recommended it to both PTSD sufferers and to family members for a different type of insight than "The Deer Hunter" and other PTSD movies. In this version the book is followed much more closely and a slightly different slant is given to the character "Larry" but the amazing thing is the way that the PTSD that Larry suffers shows through. I have recently purchased both versions for a friend of mine in the medical field who will be stationed in Afgan soon - hoping they watch both (along with some of Paul Fussell's books) prior to being in country and having to deal with the very problems projected by "Larry" in both versions of this outstanding novel adaptation.
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more than a masterpiece, it's life
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-01-21
very profound message, gene tierny was very underated actress. in this movie, she as always, brings her character to full plate.tyrone power too, underated.this movie will give you a very positive outlook on life,dignity and respect for the human spirit.
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