Director Edmund Goulding’s The Razor’s Edge is a well-made,
but ultimately forgettable film on the résumés of celebrities known for other
projects. Guilding isn't well-known,
but he also directed the Bette Davis film Dark Victory and the best picture winner
Grand Hotel.
It’s based on the novel of the same name by W. Somerset
Maugham (better known for Of Human Bondage) and follows the unrequited
relationship of Isabel (Gene Tierney, better known for Laura and The Ghost and
Mrs. Muir) and Larry (Tyrone Power, better know for Witness for the Prosecution
and The Mask of Zorro). Larry’s search
for greater meaning in life makes him appear to be a poor layabout to those in
Isabel’s socialite world. Isabel can’t
get him out of her head even when she marries someone else and doesn't see
Larry for a decade.
What did catch my attention was the performance of a mutual
friend who loses her husband and child in an accident. It was Anne Baxter in her Oscar winning
performance, though she is better known as Eve in All About Eve.
49 to go…
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