Event

THE RAZOR'S EDGE

Sunday, March 29 at 4pm
$9 Members / $12 Public / Includes Workshop

Presented by Richard Schaub

After each film in this series, Richard Schaub will facilitate group processes that will allow each man in the audience to experience what it is like to explore their inner lives

The 1946 movie adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge stays faithful to the book's questing spirit. Despite its apparently uncommercial storyline, it was a pet project of Fox honcho Darryl F. Zanuck, who saw the spiritual journey of Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power) as an "adventure" movie. Power, who was newly returned to Hollywood after his military service in World War I, does his most soul-searching work as the WWI vet who needs to find something in life deeper than money and conformity. The search takes him away from fiancee Gene Tierney and her skeptical uncle Clifton Webb and into Parisian streets and Himalayan mountain ranges. Herbert Marshall deftly plays the role of "Somerset Maugham," the observing author, and Anne Baxter picked up the supporting actress Oscar for her brassy turn as a floozy.

USA, 1946, 145 min.

Richard Schaub, Ph.D., is the author of The End of Fear, Dantes Path, and Healing Addictions. He is a NYS licensed psychotherapist in Huntington and Manhattan and trains health professionals internationally in the holistic uses of meditation and imagery. He is a long-time CAC member and has led past discussions at the centre on spiritual development in films such as The Razors Edge and Steppenwolf.