Review by abner35

I recently saw The Razor'as edge for the first time on TCM, and what surprised me was that though the film begins in 1919, there is no sense whatsoever that we are not in the late 1940's. Of course it is difficult for a movie to recreate an era only 15 years earlier, but there is no concession to fashion, hair styles, or anything that suggests the Roaring Twenties. In the first scene, the band is playing songs of the era, but with 1940's sound and arrangements. Sometimes lack of time sense doesn't matter, but here I think it does.

I'm not sure why Eastern Wisdom has held such a fascination for intellectual writers of the era. I wish some seekers would go off looking for enlightenment within our own culture. The movie reminds me of Lost Horizon where the protagonist goes seeking enlightenment in a thoroughly bogus East.