Information: - World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. Over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a result of the war (including the victims of a number of genocides), a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and the tactical stalemate caused by gruelling trench warfare. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and paved the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved. - Nicolas Jack Roeg (born 15 August 1928) is an English film director and cinematographer. - William Somerset Maugham CH (; 25 January 1874 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. - The Razor's Edge is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The book was first published in 1944. It tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatised by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life. The story begins through the eyes of Larry's friends and acquaintances as they witness his personality change after the War. His rejection of conventional life and search for meaningful experience allows him to thrive while the more materialistic characters suffer reversals of fortune. The book was twice adapted into film, first in 1946 starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney, and Herbert Marshall as Maugham and Anne Baxter as Sophie, and then a 1984 adaptation starring Bill Murray. - The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) is a drama school in London, England. It is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, founded in 1904 by Herbert Beerbohm Tree. - Catherine Mary Hicks (born August 6, 1951) is an American television, film, and stage actress. She is known for her role as Annie Camden on the long-running television series "7th Heaven". Other notable roles have been: Dr. Faith Coleridge on the soap opera "Ryan's Hope" (197678), her Emmy Award-nominated performance as Marilyn Monroe in "" (1980), Dr. Gillian Taylor in "" (1986), and Karen Barclay in "Child's Play" (1988). - John Byrum (born March 14, 1947) is an American film director and writer known for "The Razor's Edge", "Heart Beat", "Duets" and "Inserts". - Theresa Lynn Russell (born March 20, 1957) is an American actress. Russell made her film debut in "The Last Tycoon" (1976) directed by Elia Kazan, followed by a lead role opposite Dustin Hoffman in "Straight Time" (1978). She was then cast in Nicolas Roeg's controversial thriller "Bad Timing" (1980), which earned her critical praise. After marrying Roeg in 1982, she appeared in multiple films directed by him, mainly arthouse and experimental films, including "Eureka" (1983), "Insignificance" (1985), and "Cold Heaven" (1991). - Saturday Night Live (abbreviated as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest (who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast) and features performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. - Bad Timing is a 1980 British psychological thriller film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel and Denholm Elliott. The plot focuses on an American woman and a psychology professor living in Vienna, and, largely told through nonlinear flashbacks, examines the details of their turbulent relationship as uncovered by a detective investigating her apparent suicide attempt. - Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera created by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, originally airing for 13 years on ABC from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989. It revolves around the trials and tribulations within a large Irish-American family in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. - Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to adopt a new identity as a woman to land a job. The movie stars Dustin Hoffman, with a supporting cast that includes Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Geena Davis (in her acting debut), Doris Belack and producer/director Sydney Pollack. "Tootsie" was adapted by Larry Gelbart, Barry Levinson (uncredited), Elaine May (uncredited) and Murray Schisgal from the story by Gelbart and Don McGuire. - Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol". The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman. The screenplay was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. The original music score was composed by Danny Elfman. - Quick Change is a 1990 American crime comedy film written by Howard Franklin, produced by and starring Bill Murray, and directed by both. Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, and Jason Robards co-star. Other cast members include Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Phil Hartman, Victor Argo, Kurtwood Smith, Bob Elliott, and Philip Bosco. It is based on a book of the same name by Jay Cronley. - Elia Kazan (born Elias Kazantzoglou, , September 7, 1909 September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by "The New York Times" as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". - A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985. - James Keach (born December 7, 1947) is an American actor, producer, and director. He is the younger brother of actor Stacy Keach, Jr., and son of actor Stacy Keach, Sr. - Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 August 5, 1962) was an American actress and model. Famous for playing comic "dumb blonde" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962. She continues to be considered a major popular culture icon. - Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film "Laura" (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945). - Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis as three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis co-star as a client and her neighbor, and Ernie Hudson as the Ghostbusters' first recruit. - Caddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney. It stars Michael O'Keefe, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, and Bill Murray. Doyle-Murray also has a supporting role. The film was later dedicated to producer Douglas Kenney, who died shortly after the film's release. - Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and a director, with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. - Walter Stacy Keach, Jr. (born June 2, 1941) is an American actor of stage, film, and television. Highly prolific, he has played mainly dramatic roles throughout his career, including author Mickey Spillane's fictional detective Mike Hammer in the 1984 TV series "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" and later a series of television films. However, he has also performed as a narrator for programs including CNBC'S "American Greed" and various educational television programs. He has appeared on "The Opie & Anthony Show" on Sirius XM satellite radio, as well as performing comedy, particularly in his role in the Fox sitcom "Titus" as Ken, the father of comedian Christopher Titus, and as Sergeant Stedenko in "Up in Smoke". - William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He first gained exposure on "Saturday Night Live", a role which earned him his first Emmy Award and later went on to star in comedy films, including "Meatballs" (1979), "Caddyshack" (1980), "Stripes" (1981), "Tootsie" (1982), "Ghostbusters" (1984), "Scrooged" (1988), "Ghostbusters II" (1989), "What About Bob?" (1991), and "Groundhog Day" (1993). He also co-directed "Quick Change" (1990). - Ghostbusters II is a 1989 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and starring Bill Murray, Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ramis, Ernie Hudson and Rick Moranis. It is the sequel to the 1984 film "Ghostbusters", and follows the further adventures of the three parapsychologists and their organization which combats paranormal activities. - Tyrone Edmund Power III (May 5, 1914 November 15, 1958) was an American film, stage and radio actor. From the 1930s to the 1950s Power appeared in dozens of films, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads. His better-known films include "The Mark of Zorro", "Blood and Sand", "The Black Swan", "Prince of Foxes", "Witness For The Prosecution", "The Black Rose", and "Captain from Castile". Power's own favorite film among those that he starred in was "Nightmare Alley". - Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE (31 May 1922 6 October 1992) was an English film, television and theatre actor with more than 120 film and television credits. Elliott was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "A Room with a View" in 1985. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In the 1980s, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in three consecutive years, the only actor ever to have achieved this. He is perhaps best known for portraying Dr Marcus Brody in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989) and as Coleman in "Trading Places" (1983). - What About Bob? is a 1991 American black comedy film directed by Frank Oz, and starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Murray plays Bob Wiley, a psychiatric patient who follows his egotistical psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin (Dreyfuss) on vacation. When the unstable Bob befriends the other members of Marvin's family, it pushes the doctor over the edge. - Straight Time is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh, and Kathy Bates. - The Razor 's Edge is the second film version of W. Somerset Maugham 's 1944 novel , following the 1946 film version with Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney . This version stars Bill Murray ( who also co-writes ) , Theresa Russell , Catherine Hicks , Denholm Elliott , Brian Doyle - Murray and James Keach . It was directed and co-written by John Byrum . This marked Murray 's first starring role in a dramatic film , though Murray did inject some of his dry wit into the script . The book 's epigraph is dramatized as advice from kathopanishad : '' The path to salvation is narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor 's edge . '' - Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. It tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet. Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis also star. The storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th-century novel "The Prince and the Pauper". - Brian Doyle-Murray (born Brian Murray, October 31, 1945) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is the older brother of actor/comedian Bill Murray, and the two have acted together in several films, including "Caddyshack", "Scrooged", "Ghostbusters", "The Razor's Edge", and "Groundhog Day". He co-starred on the TBS sitcom on "Sullivan & Son," where he played the foul-mouthed Hank Murphy. He appears in a recurring role as Don Ehlert on the ABC sitcom "The Middle". - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third installment in the "Indiana Jones" franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father, Henry Jones, Sr. Other cast members featured include Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, and John Rhys-Davies. In the film, set largely in 1938, Indiana searches for his father, a Holy Grail scholar, who has been kidnapped by Nazis. - Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay written by Lawrence Kasdan, from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It was produced by Frank Marshall for Lucasfilm Ltd., with Lucas and Howard Kazanjian as executive producers. Starring Harrison Ford, it was the first installment in the "Indiana Jones" film franchise to be released, though it is the second in internal chronological order. It pits Indiana Jones (Ford) against a group of Nazis who are searching for the Ark of the Covenant, which Adolf Hitler believes will make his army invincible. The film co-stars Karen Allen as Indiana's former lover, Marion Ravenwood; Paul Freeman as Indiana's nemesis, French archaeologist Rene Belloq; John Rhys-Davies as Indiana's sidekick, Sallah; Ronald Lacey as Gestapo agent Arnold Toht; and Denholm Elliott as Indiana's colleague, Marcus Brody. What is the relationship between 'the razor's edge ' and '1984'?
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