CS #226The Razor's Edge

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CS #226The Razor's Edge

is a highly acclaimed 1946 drama film based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel of the same name, starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, and Anne Baxter. The movie was a major box office success and received four Academy Award nominations.
Plot Summary
The story follows Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power), an American pilot who returns from World War I profoundly traumatized by the violence and the death of a comrade. Disillusioned with conventional life and the pursuit of money, he breaks his engagement to the wealthy, status-seeking Isabel Bradley (Gene Tierney) and embarks on a spiritual quest for meaning, traveling to Paris, working manual labor jobs, and eventually studying with a holy man in the Himalayas.

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