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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Razors_edge_84.jpg) Theatrical release poster by Tom Jung | |
| Directed by | John Byrum |
| Screenplay by | John Byrum Bill Murray |
| Based on | The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham |
| Produced by | Robert P. Marcucci Harry Benn |
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| Cinematography | Peter Hannan |
| Edited by | Peter Boyle |
| Music by | Jack Nitzsche |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 129 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| 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."
- ^ "The Unstoppables". Spy. November 1988. p. 90.
- ^ The Razor's Edge at Box Office Mojo