Naked Edge (Pennybaker-Baroda; United Artists), the whodunit that is the late Gary Cooper's last picture, is a waste of a good man. As a buildup, the film's promoters have decreed that large red lights shall flash outside theaters for the last 13 minutes of each performance to warn curiosity-maddened customers that all attempts to storm the box office during that period will be repulsed. But like the Maginot line, the fortifications work only one way; there is no provision to withstand charges from customers already inside the theaters who want to get out.
Quite a few customers may want to. The much-whooped...
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