Dec 19th
The Razor's Edge**    
(US 1946)    
Twentieth Century Fox. 148m. bw

A young American returns from WWI but rejects prosperity and his fiancee to find spiritual meaning, until he returns many years later.
Laboured Hollywood studio adaptation of a noted novel, substituting grandness for the author's profoundness, and boringly literate with its dialogue when it could be better expressed visually; this occasionally does happen however, with some good individual scenes and performances.

Written by: Lamar Trotti, from the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck.
Director: Edmund Goulding.
Starring: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall (as Maugham), Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore. Fritz Kortner, Cecil Humphreys, Elsa Lanchester.
Photography: Arthur C. Miller.
Music: Alfred Newman.
Gowns: Oleg Cassini.