The first of the three maxims inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi was “Know Thyself”. Such simple advice, yet so difficult to follow. Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power) is one of life’s great seekers; The Razor’s Edge is the story of what he found. We first meet Larry at a country club party just […]
The Walk to the Paradise Garden: ‘A Month in the Country’ (1987)
As the hundredth anniversary of the Armistice approaches the First World War slips further away. The last veterans are gone. A collective memory of trenches, poppies, lions led by donkeys, and Rupert Brooke giving way to Wilfred Owen remains. Yet the Great War, fought by those who never imagined there would be a greater one, […]