Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney & Anne Baxter in W. Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge" (1946)
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- W. Somerset Maugham (Herbert Marshall), the story's narrator, drifts in and out of the lives of others.
In the summer of 1919, at a Chicago country club party, expatriate Elliott Templeton (Clifton Webb) returns to the United States from France to visit his sister, Louisa Bradley (Lucile Watson), and his niece, Isabel (Gene Tierney). Isabel's fiancé, Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power), recently returned from service as a pilot during the Great War. Among the party guests are Larry's childhood friend, Sophie Nelson (Anne Baxter), and her boyfriend, Bob MacDonald (Frank Latimore).
Larry refuses a job offer from the father of his friend, Gray Maturin (John Payne), a millionaire who is also in love with Isabel. Larry and Isabel agree to postpone their marriage for a year so that he can go to Paris to find out what meaning life has since being traumatized by the death of a comrade who sacrificed himself to save Larry.
In Paris, Larry immerses himself in the life of a student. After a year, Larry asks Isabel to marry him, but she cannot bear to live in poverty. Isabel marries Gray, to provide herself with the elite social life she craves.
Sophie and Bob MacDonald have a baby. Meanwhile, Larry works in a coal mine in France, where a drunk, debauched defrocked priest, Kosti (Fritz Kortner), urges him travel to India to learn from a mystic. Larry studies at a monastery in the Himalayas under the tutelage of a holy man, experiencing a moment of elightenment on a mountaintop. The holy man urges Larry to go back to his people but to not lose his awareness of the infinite beauty of the world and of God. Meanwhile, in the States, Bob and the baby die in a car crash.
Back in Paris, Maugham meets Elliott by chance and learns that Isabel and her family are living with Elliott after being financially ruined by the stock market crash of 1929.
A year later, Sophie is murdered.
Maugham and Larry visit Elliott on his deathbed in Nice, where he tells Gray that he will now have enough money to pay his father's debts and rebuild the business.
Isabel tells Maugham that she loves Larry, but has lost him and still does not understand what he wants. Maugham tells her that Larry has found what most people want and never get. "I don't think anyone can fail to be better and nobler, kinder for knowing him. You see, my dear, goodness is after all the greatest force in the world, and he's got it." Larry, on the deck of a storm-tossed ship, hoists cargo in the rain.
A 1946 American Black & white romantic drama film directed by Edmund Goulding, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, screenplay by Lamar Trotti, based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel of the same name, cinematography by Arthur C. Miller, starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore, Elsa Lanchester, Cecil Humphreys and Fritz Kortner.
At the 19th Academy Awards in1947, Anne Baxter won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Darryl F. Zanuck was nominated for Best Motion Picture. Richard Day, Nathan Juran, Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox were nominated for Best Art Direction - Black-and-White.
At the 4th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1946, Clifton Webb won for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, and Anne Baxter won for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture.
The wedding dress Oleg Cassini designed for Gene Tierney and worn by her was actually designed for their wedding in 1941. It was never made since they eloped. After filming, Gene Tierney's stand-in Kay Adell Stork wore it at her own wedding.
Fox purchased the screen rights to the novel in March 1945 for $250,000 plus 20% of the net profits. To avoid another $50,000 specified in the contract if the principal photography was not started by 2 February 1946, producer Darryl F. Zanuck provided for location shooting in the mountains around Denver, Colorado (the Himalayas in the film), in August 1945. The cast had not yet been set, so the character of Larry was played by a double and seen only in long-shot. Zanuck hoped to get Tyrone Power to star and delayed casting until Power was released from military service in January 1946, after serving as a pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps during WWII. The film was released wide by Twentieth Century Fox on December 25, 1946, in 300 locations across the United States, and broke all previous studio box office records.
The bittersweet song, "Mam'selle" (1946), music by Edmund Goulding with English lyrics by Mack Gordon, was introduced in this film, and became one of the biggest hits of 1947.
Awesomely produced and directed, Somerset Maugham's epic novel becomes a glossy, ambitious, ultimately flawed semi-spiritual melodrama, packed with serious star wattage with a sharp and biting social commentary beneath its regal facade. Arthur Miller's cinematography is gorgeous with lighting effects and moving camerawork that rank in the pantheon of Hollywood's visual creations. This is a great film.
Great lessons in this movie. Bravo❤
Don't miss this. It starts slowly but this is the set up for the epic story. Ann Baxter is terrific, genuinely moving.
She won Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Baxter is so good in her imperfect characters. I said that poorly but you get my meaning. She goes from diirt-smudged to luminous in the same heartbeat. Urchin to elegant. You feel her joys and you feel her sorrows.
It may have been one of the longest films to that date in Hollywood but it held my attention throughout. Great direction, brilliant screenplay (how could it not be, based so heavily on the novel?), marvellous cast and wonderfully unique (for the time) cinematography. Clifton Webb was nominated for an Oscar and should have won - his performance was something else.
Do not miss this exceptional and wonderful movie!
This is an excellent movie.
What a wonderful film. How have I not seen this before? A very powerful performance from all the main characters. Thank you for the upload!
The remake is just as good with Bill Murray maybe better
@@montyklaus7223I can't believe Murray was better than Tyrone... I always want to giggle seeing Bill, even if it's not a comedy 😅
@@hilakummins3104Me neither!
Maybe u shd read Somerset Maugham
One of the best movies ever made pure perfection especially Ann Baxter
Gene Tierney plays the manipulative, back stabbing, scorned woman to a tee.
One of the best film adaptations of a novel, from one of the greatest novels ever written.⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐
You can’t beat a movie like this.. golden
This is my second time to watch this movie. I found it just as intriguing and enjoyable as I found it the first viewing. Thank you for showing it.
Thank you this is an excellent movie with many life' lessons to learn from, like he said in the end goodness is the greatest gift of all...!
Wonderful film - powerful tale.
Everyone ended with what they desired, but only the one who sought wisdom and peace through enlightenment was able to escape the Kafkaesque deals with the devil we make to get what we think we want only to find how unsatisfying and hollow it really is.
You said this wonderfully. 👍
Classic book.
It was a lovely read and this is the best movie adaptation!
Bravo !!!!
First time seeing this. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😎👍🏼
Thank you for this truly wonderful movie 😁🇦🇽
Anne Baxter , John Payne e Tyrone Power tudo de melhor ❤
Gran pelicula y gran novela. Inolvidable!!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤amazing
A great film based on a great book that I've never read.
Read it someday! It’s quite satisfying. “The Razor’s Edge” by W. Somerset Maugham.
@@spiritmatter1553 I write books but no longer read them. Who wants to read books, apart from mine, if you can watch the film instead?
This was a powerful movie about GOODNESS in the heart of man. Some people compromise their principles, only to feel regret in the end. Other people hold fast to their principles, and find a certain PEACE that cannot be explained. It's a Spritual Peace that surpasses human understanding.
if you think this movie is great read the book!!! its even better!!! love herbert marshall and tyrone power!
Worth watching for Herbert Marshall's presence in it.
What a wonderful film , a great story , with a superb cast and Direction of Somerset Maugham's " The Razor's Edge "
Thanks!
Great great film. At 2:48 Clifton Webb nails it, superb!
Bravo! 🌹🇦🇺
Somerset M. Is one of the greatest writers of all time!! So wise!! ❤
Movie & acting don’t really get started until halfway. Hang in there.
Tierney’s character has a drastic personality change in last half.
Great performances all around. The best thing Power ever did, except possibly "Nightmare Alley".
(don't forget that "lifeboat" pictur
Tierney, affected by guilt about her brain-damaged daughter, had her own off-screen mental problems that matched those of the 'odd' characters she would play in pictures like this. By 1959 she was out of pictures and doing "therapy" work in a dress-shop.
@@None-zc5vg Power was not in "Lifeboat".
Mr. Power starred "Abandon Ship!" (1957) An excellent movie, too!
Excellent movie, they can't make movie like this anymore. ❤
Greatest film of all time
One of the great movies 💖
15:17 " poor sweet I guess he forgot to wind his watch" now we have time broadcasted worldwide over air.
Ann baxter
Jesus gave His life for all of us ❤
Each, and every one, of us. ❤
N for that reason n many more is why we love GodJesusHolySpirit with all our Hearts Souls Minds n Strengths Always and Forever n Ever y que DiosJesúsCristo nos bendiga siempre y por vida Amén ❤😊
Amen! And Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father except through me."
PRAISE THE LORD & PASS THE AMMUNITION!
HALLELUJAH THANK YOU JESUS FOR SALVATION,
YOUR GIFT OF FORGIVENESS AND FAMILY LOVE.
the book is more in depth on Larry's journey, and Anne Baxter's performance is not to be missed. Isbell's real villainy lies in her desire to control Larry.
Gene Tierney is wonderful in this as she is in Leave Her To Heaven.
Notice the long takes in this film, allowing scenes to play out.
top 5 for m seen 10X
Tyrone Power is visibly different in this movie compared to his appearance in movies before his service in WWII. Looks ten years older.
quel dommage que ce ne soit pas en français ou sous titré.
Power was said to have preferrred this sort of 'serious' material (on film and on stage) to the westerns and 'swashbuckling' pictures that took up most of his short career.
It's true!
Hello😊
It was not Ann Bancroft
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Too much kissing as they arent married in real life!
I prefer the elegant Tierney in more comedic roles. I like her so much seeinng her this nasty is rough!
Excellent, excellent film.
I hear Chopin music 27:15
Haven't seen the movie yet, what prompted those Gospel quotes below?
Tyrone Powers character is looking for spiritual enlightment and answers to life questions. People who believe the answers are in the Christian Bible are sharing their beliefs thus the Bible quotes on this comments thread.
@estellacoggins715 except that he did NOT find his answers in a book, at least not that one. He took a different (legitimate) path to inner peace and life's meaning. He also walked the walk and didn't just talk rubbish he didn't understand.
Eastern mysticism not christian!
So…
Can you say, "Over Acted."
How did the police know that the murdered woman was Sophie?
Who killed her? He Said he knew whd did it.
She must’ve had 🆔 on her. No doubt the brutish boyfriend was the doer.
@@sylviab.791 Seems we will never find out! Unless it was Isabel!!!
LSD would have been a whole lot faster.
This is a fine movie but I must say the Bill Murray version, although slightly different, is even better. Theresa Russell's performance is so compelling I have no words for it. Denholm Elliot plays a far more sympathetic Elliot Templeton and his death scene is more poignant for it.
Even Russian balalajka....many rich Russian left Russia after bolschevick revolution and some of them end up in Paris
Look no further than Jesus, then get on with your life.
hello , what a wonderful movie😊😊😊.........i have long heard of it but never watched . it is one of the best , jam packed , with great actors. ann bancroft's performace , was a force they don't make 'em , like this anymore . thank you , for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰............
Anne Baxter!