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Production Year: 1967 - Thriller - Director: Terence Young - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Jack Weston, Julie Herrod, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. more

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Why Wait Until Dark?
A review by anonymili on Wait Until Dark (DVD)
July 29th, 2008


Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it? Loved it 
Story Outstanding 
Characters / Performances Outstanding 
Special Effects Good 
How does it compare to similar films? Outstanding 

Advantages: Audrey Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn
Disadvantages: none really

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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Sam Hendrix meets a pretty blonde, Lisa, on a flight home to the US who asks him to look after a doll for her which unknown to him has something hidden inside. Sam brings the doll home, leaves it lying around and forgets about it, and then has to go away on business leaving his wife Susy home alone. Susy was blinded in an accident about a year ago and is still getting accustomed to life as a blind woman.

Roat, a merciless criminal, wants the doll back except he has searched the Hendrix's flat and hasn't been able to find the doll. He enlists the help of two henchmen, Mike and Carlino, after killing Lisa in the Hendrix home (whilst they are out of course). He tells Mike and Carlino that he'll pin the blame on them as she was a known associate of theirs if they don't help him out. As Sam is away on business when Mike appears at the door claiming to be an old friend of Sam's, Susy, knowing no differently lets him into their home. From here on in it's a cat and mouse game as to who Susy can trust whether it be her young teenage neighbour Gloria, Mike or Carlino or Roat and also trying to find the doll and then trying to hide it again as it is evident Susy's life will be worth nothing if the doll is handed over.

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Wait Until Dark was released in 1968 and starred Audrey Hepburn as Susy, Alan Arkin as Roat, Richard Crenna as Mike, with support from Jack Weston as Carlino, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Sam and Julie Herrod as Gloria. It was originally a play by writer Frederick Knott which opened on Broadway in February 1966. Julie Herrod played Gloria in the theatre version as well as in the film and Lee Remick was the original Susy in the play.

Audrey Hepburn is one of my all time favourite actresses. I have always found her perfectly delightful to watch on screen, and I thought she was fabulous in this film. She plays the role of the delicate blind woman who has to fight with all her senses apart from her sight to stay alive with such realism that one could believe this role was written specifically for her. Her character is not long married and you can tell that she is madly in love with her husband and he is constantly encouraging her to be more independent and she says is adamant that she will be a "champion" blind person. Her facial expressions when faced with threat so convincing that one could believe she is really blind and really under threat. There is a scene where she has an argument with Gloria, the upstairs neighbour which is quite violent and Gloria starts throwing things around in fury and Susy calmly bends down to pick up the items on the floor feeling around for them and there is a very emotional scene between them when they both apologise to each other and reach a real understanding as prior to this there was no real bond between them. Susy's trusting nature is betrayed when she realises that "Mike" is not who he claims to be and her distress in this scene is amazing to watch as well as the calm way in which she confronts him with her discovery. The final scenes of the film are really terrifying and Hepburn's acting is especially impeccable in these scenes. Not surprising that Hepburn was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her leading role in 1968, sadly she did not win. I was interested to learn that she even learnt Braille for her role in this film.

Alan Arkin is a truly despicable criminal as Roat. He is so cold and evil that you can only believe that he is somewhat insane and don't realise until you see the last few scenes on the film the real reason for erratic behaviour. He seems so normal at times and at others he seems just riddled with insanity. He is supposed to be a master of disguise but he doesn't allow for the fact that he's trying to con a blind woman who relies more on her other senses because of her blindness so even though he disguises his voice she notices other things like footsteps or people fiddling with the blinds in the kitchen to give signals to the others outside as well as smells. The way Roat calmly asks Mike and Carlino to help him with a job initially, offering them $2,000 for the job before they realise that he has killed Lisa and is going to frame them if he doesn't follow his instructions is quite genius; even down to him showing off the fact that he's wearing gloves and has no criminal record whilst they have records and have just signed their own arrest warrants by leaving their fingerprints everywhere in the Hendrix's home. Roat comes across as so detestable that you're willing from quite early on in the film for someone to finish him off, be it Susy, Gloria, Mike or Carlino or just hope that he gets run over by a car. Superb piece of villainy from Arkin!

Richard Crenna is at his most charming as the affable Mike Talman, pretending for the most part to be on Susy's side - he is so credible with his pretence of being a "Mr Nice Guy" that it makes it the film even more intense as you wait for him to show his true colours but when he does, it's not in quite the way I imagined. I've never been a big fan of Crenna in the past, but I really liked him in this role. Then again, I don't recall seeing him in many films from the 60s - he does look rather dashing in this film so I guess he was a very good choice - his good looks and charisma - made for an all round believable suave small-time crook. It was really clever the way they made Crenna's character so smarmy and credible that Susy begins to actually believe that her husband was actually having an affair with this previously unknown woman Lisa who was murdered.

The supporting cast of Julie Herrod, Jack Weston and Efrem Zimbalist Jr must also be applauded for their roles. Herrod probably had the most on screen time and it seemed as if she really got into character and enjoyed the scenes where she throws a tantrum and then reconciles with Susy as well as the scenes where she has to be brave to help Susy in her real time of need. It seems that this was the only ever film Herrod appeared in. I was surprised that Efrem Zimbalist Jr was also nominated for an award for his supporting role as good as he was, his on screen time was fairly limited.

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I have to admit that I was on the edge of my seat in the final scenes and at several points I was very glad I watched this DVD during the day as I would have jumped out of my skin had I watched this alone at night-time alone! The trailer for the film is quite scary alone and from what is said in the DVD extras I understand they used to ask people not to light cigarettes in the cinema hall as the screen goes completely black at key moments in the climax of the film to build the suspense so you feel the fear as much as our blind heroine!

The DVD had a few extras including the trailer for the film, which I've already mentioned above really will get you curious about the film if you enjoy thrillers. There was a documentary called "A Look in the Dark" with Alan Arkin who played Roat and Mel Ferrer who produced the film (and incidentally was married to Hepburn at the time). It's quite short a short documentary but quite entertaining and both Arkin and Ferrer sing the praises of Hepburn for her professionalism during shooting with Arkin saying how he relished playing the character of the evil Roat and how he put his own slant on the role, which I have to admit he did fabulously well. It really amused me to read that it was very difficult to fill the role of Roat as there were not many people willing to be cast in a villainous role against a blind woman, let alone everyone's beloved Audrey Hepburn!

~*~

The DVD was released in 2005 by Warner Bros. The film runs for 103 minutes and is (quite rightly in my opinion) rated 12 in the UK. On my version of the DVD there are subtitles available in English, Arabic, French and Italian with special English and Italian subtitles for the hearing impaired and you can choose between English, French and Italian for the language you want to watch the film in. There is no bad language in the film but there is moderate violence and enough threat to make it too scary for viewers under 12.

You can pick up the DVD of the film from Amazon for £3.48 or from Play.com for £4.99 or try your usual DVD rental source if you don't want to buy it outright.

~*~

Wait Until Dark was produced by Mel Ferrer (as previously mentioned) and directed by Terence Young. The screenplay was by Robert & Jane-Howard Carrington with cinematography by Charles Lang. The powerful and atmospheric musical score was by Henry Mancini who must be given credit for the scary music which really did add to the scary effects of making you want to jump out of your seat at key moments!

A review in The New York Times in October 1967 said of this film: "The climax of the film, a violent physical confrontation between Susie and Roat in her dark kitchen, is one of the most memorable and frightening scenes in screen history." That is probably still valid today considering Stephen King chose it as the top of his list for scariest scenes in movie history and it came 10th in Bravo's "The 100 Scariest Movie Moments"

~*~

All in all, I would rate Wait Until Dark a very strong 9 out of 10. I can't fault the film apart from wondering a couple of times why Hepburn's character couldn't just LOCK THE DOOR AND CALL THE POLICE. Well, if she HAD done that, we wouldn't have had such a fabulous thriller to watch! 

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Review of Wait Until Dark (DVD) by iany

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I had not seen this film for many years and so had some concern about watching it again as I worried if it had aged well. No problems this film is excellent a real gripping tale with good acting. A recent accident leaves a pretty woman blinded, she meets and marries a photographer who travels around and one day brings home a doll with the story of being given it by a young woman at the airport to be collected. And now the story begins her husband ...
...goes out to work, she attends blind school and only has a little help from a young child who lives upstairs in their apartment block. some men want that doll and set about diverting her husband and concieving a elaborate plot to get her to hand it over, she not knowing where it is or what is going on and slowly starts to realise that something is wrong very wrong. with strange men in and out of her flat playing different characters preying on her ... Read review

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Actor(s): Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jack Weston, Julie Herrod

Director(s): Terence Young

Genre: Thriller & Mystery - Thriller

Classification: 12 years and over

Production Year: 1967

Running Time: 1 hour 47 minutes

Video Category: Feature Film

Plot: The gripping tale of a blind woman confronted in her apartment by three criminals with an incredibly elaborate and sinister scheme. One of the first true jump-out-of-your-seat thrillers. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actress - Audrey Hepburn.

DVD Description

The gripping tale of a blind woman confronted in her apartment by three criminals with an incredibly elaborate and sinister scheme. One of the first true jump-out-of-your-seat thrillers. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actress - Audrey Hepburn.

Release details

DVD Region: DVD

Studio(s): WARNER HOME VIDEO; CINRAM LOGISTICS

Release date: 13/03/2006

No of Discs: 1

Catalogue No: D 027527

Barcode: 7321900275279

Composer: Henry Mancini

Producer: Mel Ferrer

Languages

Main Language: English

Subtitle Language: English, French, Spanish

Technical information

Special Features: A Look In The Dark Featurette, Two Theatrical Trailers

Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Wide Screen

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