The Razor's Edge was adapted for cinema by Bill Murray and John Byrum from the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

The film was a critical and commercial failure on it's release in 1984. This website is for anyone who enjoyed the film, regardless.

Thanks to John Byrum for his help with this site.

13-Dec-09 Fan Comments :

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02-Oct-09 With the Tiger by Inez Baranay

"An elegant retelling of the Somerset Maugham classic The Razor's Edge"

A new Razor's Edge movie?, sex drugs and rock 'n roll?, Larry Darrell as a back-packing Aussie?

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10-Sep-09 'Bill Murray Life Lessons'

Starring Ann Everton and Jackson O'Connell.

A very nicely done tribute to The Razor's Edge

21-Feb-09 Picture Exclusive :

Karin Byrum has donated another rare photo of Bill Murray and John Byrum during the writing of the script. They are pictured enjoying a mud bath in Calistoga.

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• The Razor's Edge is Bill Murray's only screenwriting credit to date
  
  
• Larry's farewell speech to commanding officer, Piedmont was written by Bill as a farewell to John Belushi.
  
  
• Columbia Pictures could only have the rights to Ghostbusters if they also agreed to fund The Razor's Edge.
  
  
• The film was criticised for not taking the search for truth seriously. Novelist, Somerset Maugham wrote a script (which the studios rejected) and stressed "this is a comedy and should be played rapidly"
  
  
• After The Razor's Edge, Bill took a four year break from the industry which included studying philosophy at the Sorbonne.
  
  
• In the remake , Larry Darrell serves as an ambulance driver in World War 1 just as writer, Somerset Maugham had. (In the novel and 1946 film version, Larry is a fighter pilot)