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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 ... Read allAn 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.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.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 3 nominations total
Dorothy Abbott
- Showgirl
- (uncredited)
George Adrian
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Demetrius Alexis
- Abbe
- (uncredited)
Olga Andre
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
John Ardell
- Banker
- (uncredited)
Frank Arnold
- Miner
- (uncredited)
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Juan Arzube
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Lamar Trotti
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Darryl F. Zanuck(uncredited)
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- TriviaThere were 89 different sets built for the film, which had the longest shooting schedule for any film at the studio to that date. According to some news items, the film broke all previous studio box office records.
- GoofsAfter a promising beginning, in which the clothes and hairstyles of 1919 are pleasantly and reasonably accurately interpreted, as soon as it gets to 1920, then on to 1930, and beyond, Gene Tierney's hairstyle is in an unchanging, although very attractive, 1946 mode, and all of her clothes, designed by husband Oleg Cassini, except for lower hemlines, are strictly 1946, complete with the ubiquitous shoulder pads of that era. Anne Baxter's ensembles look more like Tierney/Cassini rejects, an unhappy compromise between opposing styles.
- Crazy creditsWhen 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997)
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razor's edge
Kinda surprised Brian DePalma didn't direct the '84 remake since this 1946 original resembles a DePalma film in its alternation of silliness with empathy toward its characters as well as a general floridity of tone. In short, everything seems overdone and overstated, with subtlety and nuance banished from the set. In their place you have classic scenes of unintended comedy, such as the ones set in the Indian Holy Place, which reminded me of an Esalen weekend in New Mexico, and the ol Hypnosis Coin Trick that cures John Payne's pain instantly and where Ty Power's spiritual seeker comes across as a younger, better looking Prof. Marvel. However, just as in a DePalma film, at the point when you're about to bail on the damn thing, director Edmund Goulding manages to pull off an extended bit like the raffish night club in Paris or Clifton Webb's serio/comic death that gets your attention and affects you more than you thought it would. The same goes for the acting. Balancing an over the top Anne Baxter or Webb's inability to get out of the Waldo Lydecker straight jacket you have a relatively restrained, intelligent performance from Power (minus the coin schtick) and a quite good one from Gene Tierney who is tasked with the difficult role of embodying American Postwar Materialism and manages to acquit herself well. So let's give this too long, too sedulously faithful adaptation of Maugham, complete with Herbert Marshall as the author himself in one of the great cinematic fifth wheel turns, a generous B minus 'cause I made it through the whole 2 hr/30 min without once using the fast forward.
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- W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge
- Filming locations
- Denver, Colorado, USA(2nd unit exteriors, backgrounds, mountains)
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- Budget
- $1,200,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours 25 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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