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Gary Cooper's final film is a below average whodunit
In his last film Gary Cooper plays George Radcliffe, an American business executive who becomes a witness in the trial of Donald Heath (Ray McAnally). Heath is convicted of murder and robbery, and is sentenced to life imprisonment. Short afterwards George and his partner have a whole lot of money and start a new business. But then six years later his wife Martha (Deborah Kerr) shows George a letter that had been lost for five years, in which a lawyer accuses George of the murder. Martha wants to believe her husband, but the evidence seems overwhelming.

The main problem with this 1961 film is that director Michael Anderson needs to be more like Hitchcock; you can think of "The Naked Edge" as being something of a watered down "Suspicion." This is a suspense movie in which there is little suspense. Cooper seems distanced from both his character and the story, leaving it to Kerr to carry the story. Then at the end, the film actually asks you not to reveal the murderer to anyone. They do not need to worry. Besides the curiosity value of being Cooper's final film, released after his death, "The Naked Edge" is not going to be on anybody's list of first-rate whodunits.

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Bizarre
The film focuses too much on a miscast, cadaverous Gary Cooper. Deborah Kerr's character is interesting, but she looks bored throughout most of the film. Eric Portman is delightfully evil and sinister. You will never view bathtubs or razors the same way after the finale!