The Razor's Edge

First scene upon truth-seeking Larry (Tyrone Power) arriving at the ashram in northern India, meeting the un-named "Holy Man" (Cecil Humphreys), their first conversation largely from W. Somerset Maugham's original novel, in The Razor's Edge, 1946.

Having left our hero Tyrone Power on his spiritual quest in India, back to Chicago where Gray (John Payne) is summoned to a hospital where, we learn, Sophie (Anne Baxter), injured in a car crash, doesn’t know her husband and child were killed, Isabel (Gene Tierney) appearing briefly, in The Razor’s Edge, 1946.

Herbert Marshall narrating as author W. Somerset Maughan, a device from the novel, visiting Templeton (Clifton Webb), and meeting his sister (Lucile Watson), her daughter Isabel (Gene Tierney) and friend Sophie (Anne Baxter), much talk about the unseen principal, Larry (Tyrone Power), opening The Razor's Edge, 1946.

End of the extended first scene, a party at a suburban Chicago country club, 1919, troubled veteran Larry (Tyrone Power) with devoted fiancee` Isabel (Gene Tierney), contemplating his future, in The Razor's Edge, 1946, from the W.Somerset Maugham novel.