The Razor’s Edge
, directed by Edmund Goulding and released in 1946, is a movie I repeatedly return to for solace and respite from contemporary life. Based on W. Somerset Maugham’s 1944 novel of the same name, it tracks the odyssey of a World War I fighter pilot, Larry Darrell, after he returns to the United States, determined not to adjust to the status quo. He, , , and .