The Razor's Edge (1984 film)

The Razor's Edge
Theatrical release poster by Tom Jung
Directed byJohn Byrum
Screenplay byJohn Byrum
Bill Murray
Based onThe Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
Produced byRobert P. Marcucci
Harry Benn
Starring
CinematographyPeter Hannan
Edited byPeter Boyle
Music byJack Nitzsche
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • October 19, 1984 (1984-10-19)
Running time
129 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$13 million[1]
Box office$6.6 million[2]

The Razor's Edge is a 1984 American historical drama film directed and co-written by John Byrum starring Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, Brian Doyle-Murray, and James Keach. The film is an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel The Razor's Edge.

This marked Murray's first starring role in a dramatic film, though he did inject some of his dry wit into the script. The book's epigraph is dramatized as advice from the Katha Upanishad: "The path to salvation is narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge."

  1. ^ "The Unstoppables". Spy. November 1988. p. 90.
  2. ^ The Razor's Edge at Box Office Mojo