The Razor's Edge produced two movie versions (1946, 1984), each with stellar casts featuring first Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter, then Bill Murray and Theresa Russell. The earler version emphasized Power as hero seeking the true meaning of life, while the 1984 version diffuses the focus from Power to his friends, who undergo a personal crisis of their own. Both versions are reasonably faithfu l to Maugham's text, except that the cinematic.....
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