The Razor's Edge (1946)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.6/10   

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Escritores:

Lamar Trotti (screenplay)
W. Somerset Maugham (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

diciembre 1946 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

Hunger no love . . . woman . . . or wealth could satisfy!

Plot:

A 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.

Plot Keywords:

India | Paris | Will | Uncle | Engagement

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

a coming of age film

Reparto

Tyrone Power	...	Larry Darrell
Gene Tierney	...	Isabel Bradley
John Payne	...	Gray Maturin
Anne Baxter	...	Sophie MacDonald
Clifton Webb	...	Elliott Templeton
Herbert Marshall	...	W. Somerset Maugham
Lucile Watson	...	Louisa Bradley
Frank Latimore	...	Bob MacDonald
Elsa Lanchester	...	Miss Keith
Fritz Kortner	...	Kosti
John Wengraf	...	Joseph - Gray & Isabel's Butler
Cecil Humphreys	...	Holy Man
Harry Pilcer	...	Specialty Dancer
Cobina Wright Sr.	...	Princess Novemali

También conocida como:

W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge (USA) (complete title)
El filo de la navaja (Spain) (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

145 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #11498) | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Denver, Colorado, USA

Compañía:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivialidades:

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.

Citas:

Elliott Templeton: If I live to be a hundred I shall never understand how any young man can come to Paris without evening clothes.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years (1997) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

Mam'selle

a coming of age film

This film, and the book on which it is based, made strong impressions on me in my youth, but even more so now that I am past middle age. A magnificent cast - Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, John Payne, Herbert Marshall, help to tell the story of a man who walks "in another man's shoes" -- and totally to his own drummer -- after the first world war. In his quest for spirituality and goodness, he is at odds with the materialism and obsession around him. The different layers of "The Razor's Edge" demand attention: Larry's physical desire for Isabel, a woman it turns out he doesn't even know; Isabel's cold-heartedness and desire to possess Larry; and Larry's search for the meaning of life, while the people he loves disintegrate around him from lack of values or hope. These are all seen through the eyes of Somerset Maugham, played by Marshall. Larry's final confrontation scene with Isabel (Tierney) about Sophie (Baxter) is bone-chilling -- Power, who had a tendency to be sometimes stiff and a bit removed from his material, uses that flaw to excellent advantage as Larry Darrell. It's not a showy role, but he's wonderful, and he's reading of poetry in Sophie's room is unforgettable.

Highly recommended.