The Naked Edge details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Peter Cushing, Hermione Gingold, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento, Deborah Kerr, Michael Wilding, Gary Cooper |
| Director: | Michael Anderson |
| Genre: | Thriller - General |
| Studio: | CORNERSTONE MEDIA |
| Name | Discs | |
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The Naked Edge |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 37 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 29 Nov 2010 |
| Main languages: | English |
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A Hollywood Great bows out with a gritty performance
By roncoach (365 reviews) from suffolk , 23 Aug 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
Naked Edge was the final film of a screen legend, in the year that he died of cancer. I am such a fan of Coop that I have always avoided watching this film in case it 'spoilt' anything for me.....after all, Britain had a habit at that time of inviting 'faded' or 'past-their-best' old Hollywood stars to come over and try to prop up a mediocre UK film.
I shouldn't have worried. Coop went out well, and left me with untainted memories of one of the true greats of the silver screen ( from the silent era right up to this above-average British offering in 1961)-----I do wonder if the film would have veered more towards mediocrity without a male star who knew his craft so well; overall, I think Coop added that extra touch of class which takes this film above the average.
I don't mean to take anything away from Deborah Kerr or director Michael Anderson or the supprting cast, editing, sets, photography and screenplay : all were good enough.
The story was good, a bit Hitchcockian ----and used as such by Michael Anderson in his handling of the film. I enjoyed the story and forgot the B&W ( which so often means 'B' film status as late as the 1960s) and the lower production values that marked Coop's illustrious career for so long with Paramount ( though it felt strange not seeing him in a Paramount film) did not detract too much.
Yes, I would like to have seen him end his career in a 5* movie, like a number of his others, but I was left satisfied that he had enhanced a film right up to the time he was suffering and dying. It made me recall the spanish-accented words of Katy Jurado to Lloyd Bridges about Coop's character ( Will Kane ) in High Noon : 'you are A good lookin boy, but He ees a MAN'.
I recommend the film even if the viewer does not share any of my own love of this Hollywood icon.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(2)A Hollywood Great bows out with a gritty performance
By roncoach (365 reviews) from suffolk , 23 Aug 2011Naked Edge was the final film of a screen legend, in the year that he died of cancer. I am such a fan of Coop that I have always avoided watching this film in case it 'spoilt' anything for me.....after all, Britain had a habit at that time of inviting 'faded' or 'past-their-best' old Hollywood stars to come over and try to prop up a mediocre UK film.
I shouldn't have worried. Coop went out well, and left me with untainted memories of one of the true greats of the silver screen ( from the silent era right up to this above-average British offering in 1961)-----I do wonder if the film would have veered more towards mediocrity without a male star who knew his craft so well; overall, I think Coop added that extra touch of class which takes this film above the average.
I don't mean to take anything away from Deborah Kerr or director Michael Anderson or the supprting cast, editing, sets, photography and screenplay : all were good enough.
The story was good, a bit Hitchcockian ----and used as such by Michael Anderson in his handling of the film. I enjoyed the story and forgot the B&W ( which so often means 'B' film status as late as the 1960s) and the lower production values that marked Coop's illustrious career for so long with Paramount ( though it felt strange not seeing him in a Paramount film) did not detract too much.
Yes, I would like to have seen him end his career in a 5* movie, like a number of his others, but I was left satisfied that he had enhanced a film right up to the time he was suffering and dying. It made me recall the spanish-accented words of Katy Jurado to Lloyd Bridges about Coop's character ( Will Kane ) in High Noon : 'you are A good lookin boy, but He ees a MAN'.
I recommend the film even if the viewer does not share any of my own love of this Hollywood icon.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Surfaced At Last
By FrankIV (506 reviews) from Cirencester, England , 15 Mar 2011For some reason, this film has been out of circulation for a long time, and it's good to find it and catch up with it now: unfortunately, the actuality was not really worth the wait and the anticipation. Gary Cooper's last film with him playing opposite Deborah Kerr, fresh from her outstanding performance as the governess in 'The Innocents', directed by Michael Anderson and with a supporting cast of very good British actors turns out to be a rather overwrought and unconvincing drama given to a considerable amount of visual gimmickry and over-loaded with an obtrusive musical score, although the climax is quite suspensefully shot. Interesting, but don't get your hopes up, as I did.- Was this review helpful to you?
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