Version 2--The Razor's Edge--1984, based on the novel by Somerset Maugham--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clfnw8cfYbQ

Larry in this version played by Bill Murray, who also co-wrote the screenplay, does not fit the image of a saintly man from the novel; also many elements changed, including the elimination of the writer character, Somerset Maungham himself, who was the outsider narrator in the novel.

Plus Larry was a pilot in WW I, not a foot soldier in trench warfare, and the Tibetan element is completely new.

I watched this immediately after I read the novel, and even I found it hard to follow--BIll Murray in truncating it (the farm episodes and the trek through Germany completely cut out) made it extremely choppy and hard to follow. Sophie not given enough space

Larry at 30 was not a virgin as Isabel insisted. Larry had had what could only be called casual sex or convenient sex on his spiritual search.

A 3rd version should be made --as a long TV series--That would give space for each important character's stories--someone with money should work on it--like Julian Fellowes--(Downtown Abbey). blockquote>I read The Razor's Edge when I was a pre-teen of 11 or 12.-- I did get Larry's Search --and I remember the alchohol scene--but I missed many details

such as the Radziwells in Warsaw, where I went in 1968, 69.

My sister and I were walking on a cold, snowy and icy street when the Polish tutor pointed out the Radziwell house to my sister, who at the time was still unmarried--I was and already had 2 children.

Jackie Kennedy's sister Lee married Count Radziwell and so was known as Lee Radziwell.

I was very young at 11 and 12, and lots of stuff I read passed over my head, like War abd Peace and The Brothers Karamazov, but I did get some things. kmk 12-14-2024