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Watch: The Razor’s Edge 1946 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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 alcohol 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..
Plot: 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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	7.3/10 Votes: 6,230
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Reviews:

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 left his fiancée and set off into the world. After the Wall Street Crash, she is invited to live with her socially ambitious uncle “Elliott” (Clifton Webb) in Paris and some ten years after he left, she is reunited with her erstwhile beau. Now, she finds herself completely smitten even though she is now married to the somewhat aptly named “Gray” (John Payne) and this is where the scheming Tierney comes into her own. Deftly, sometimes even cruelly, playing a game that pays scant regard for the feelings of her husband and showing a gritty determination to get what she wants. Power plays his character well, too – a straight as a bat, decent, human being; and with an an excellent effort from Anne Baxter as the tragedy-struck, slippery-slope headed “Sophie”; an equally on form Webb and a measured effort (and narration) from Herbert Marshall as the author himself, the acting talent on offer here is formidable. The adaptation, though is a bit meandering and the production as a whole just lacks something. Passion? That spark? I don’t really know how to put a finger on it, but somehow it just doesn’t quite catch fire.

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. Clifton Webb is brilliant again (he was in Laura) playing a person who continues to remind everyone he is not a stuffy socialite who is all about wealth, control, and status, even though he is just that.

Anne Baxter whose tour-de-force IMO will be four years later in All About Eve, has less to do here and a character that is there to serve as Tierney’s victim; much like Jeanne Crain was in Leave Her to Heaven. Although in both movies Tierney is more or less her own victim.

I have to also mention Herbert Marshall who plays the writer of the book this movie is based on. His voice does some narration in the movie. More about that in a moment. But we also see him being a confidant and adviser to this circle of “friends” as he sits back and observes their behavior that becomes his novel.

My one problem with this movie that takes my rating from a 9 to a 7 is the length. At 2 hours 25 minutes it tends to drag and if I were editing I would start with Tyrone Powers journey to India. That could have been another place we could have used Herbert Marshall’s narration.

I suspect the reason they did not cut that scene is because they devoted so much time to several of the other characters that Power would not have found himself on screen as often as a male star of a movie would expect to be.

So even if you are not someone like me that wants to gawk at Tierney or Mr Power (for you females), it is a movie well worth watching. Just be prepared for some moments that drag and a couple unanswered plot holes at the end.

A Semi Spiritual Melodrama By Somerset Maugham
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.

Nirvana
We loved Somerset Maughan’s “The Razor’s Edge”, as well as the rest of his literary production. In the 1946 film version of the novel, Mr. Maughan was asked to help Lamar Trotti with the adaptation, which can be considered contains the essence of the book. Darryl F. Zanuck entrusted the direction to Edmund Goulding who made the version of “The Razor’s Edge” a favorite of the movie going public.

As a big spectacle, “The Razor’s Edge” had a lot going for it. It was Tyrone Power’s first starring role after he came home from WWII. Mr. Power was one of the most handsome actors in Hollywood, then and now. His looks were a distraction, as shown in here. The basic flaw with the movie is the character of Larry Darrell, who in the novel is presented in a better view. We don’t believe for a moment that this man was interested in nothing else but in his looks and the superficiality of being in the high circles of society of those years.

The trip of enlightenment to India in search for the truth, is basically poorly handled. The mountain sets look cheap and unrealistic and doesn’t add anything to the movie, at all. We don’t believe for a moment that Larry has gone to work in such menial jobs, and the end where he is seen as deck hand in his trip back to America is also completely mishandled. Perhaps with another actor the figure of Larry would have come out stronger and in a more positive way, the way Mr. Maughan drew him in the novel.

The rest of the players are wonderful. Clifton Webb, above all, is an elegant Elliott Templeton, the witty society figure that is obviously gay, but knows a thing, or two, about his enemies. Elliott is always ahead of the game, which in a way, doesn’t explain well how he becomes so sick and dies in no time, but again, this is only a minor observation which had to be arranged within the almost two and a half hours of the film.

Gene Tierney was a ravishing Isabel Bradley, a woman who wanted it all and thought she could have her cake and eat it as well. She refused to marry Larry because his income was a paltry three thousand dollars a year. Horror of horrors, how would she buy her Oleg Cassinis shmattes with that amount? She lets Larry go, but when he meets him again in Paris, she wants him back. Ms. Tierney made a great portrait of this woman with an evil streak in her character.

Anne Baxter made a great impression as Sophie. Ms. Baxter was an excellent actress who gets under the skin of her character and runs away with it. The fact that Sophie is a prostitute is handled the Hollywood way, not dwelling on it, as the studio people want to keep the status quo of a woman who is seen in an Apache dive in the Paris of those years before the war.

The rest of the cast is splendid. Herbert Marshall plays the author himself, Somerset Maughan, the man who is the connection among all the characters and situations. Lucile Watson makes another elegant society woman in the film, something she knew how to play well. Elsa Lanchester, that delightful actress, is only seen for a moment, but she is absolutely perfect as the flighty secretary to the princess that has slighted Elliott Templeton. John Payne plays his part a bit on the wooden side, but as a society man, what else could he do?

The music by Alfred Newman is an asset throughout the film. Mr. Newman always knew what fitted best. The music fits well the proceedings. Best of all the scene at the low class bar where “Mamselle” is heard in the background.

While Edmound Goulding’s “The Razor’s Edge” is flawed, it still packs a tremendous impact, which we have to recognize it wasn’t as great on this, the second viewing of the film. Yet, the film will satisfy.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 25 min (145 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Edmund Goulding
Writer Lamar Trotti, W. Somerset Maugham, Darryl F. Zanuck
Actors Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 3 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,963.92 m (17 reels)
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format N/A