The Razor's Edge

W. Somerset Maugham is himself a minor character, drifting in and out of the lives of the major players. The film opens at a party held following World War I in 1919 at a Chicago country club. Elliott Templeton (Clifton Webb) has returned to the United States for the first time since before the war to visit his sister, Louisa Bradley (Lucile Watson), and his niece, Isabel (Gene Tierney), engaged to be married to Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power) Larry and Isabel agree to postpone their marriage so that he can go to Paris to clear his muddled thoughts. Larry

Credits

Directed by
Edmund Goulding
Written by
Lamar Trotti
Cast
Gene Tierney, Mario Siletti, Anne Baxter, Fritz Kortner, Lucile Watson, Tyrone Power, Elsa Lanchester, Clifton Webb, John Payne, Maurice Marsac, Barry Norton, Frank Latimore, Jean De Briac, Jean Del Val, Henri Letondal, Louis Mercier, Jaque Catelain, John Davidson …
Produced by
Darryl F. Zanuck
Cinematography
Arthur Charles Miller
Music
Alfred Newman
Edited by
J. Watson Webb, Jr.
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