The Razor's Edge (1946)
First screened in February 2016

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Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Herbert Marshall, Clifton Webb, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Frank Latimore, Cecil Humphreys, Fritz Kortner, Lucile Watson, Elsa Lanchester, Forbes Murray, Roger Valmy, Robert Barron, Tony Laurent. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti (based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham).

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Twitter Capsule: Fitful ambitions with camera movement but irreparably stiff. Outmoded. Steadily more camp. Tyrone, though! Rrowr.

VOR: ②  This story has lingered enough to prompt two adaptations over generations, but for all its flirtation with Ideas, thematic and formal, it's White Elephant Art to the max.

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Photo © 1946 20th Century Fox

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: C–

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Academy Award Nominations and Winners:
	Best Picture
★	Best Supporting Actress: Anne Baxter
	Best Supporting Actor: Clifton Webb
	Best Art Direction: Richard Day and Nathan Juran; Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox
Golden Globe Nominations and Winners:
★	Best Supporting Actress: Anne Baxter
★	Best Supporting Actor: Clifton Webb

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