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Wait Until Dark [1967]
from Warner Home Video
starring Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jack Weston
directed by Terence Young

Features:

• PAL
• Widescreen

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Outdated
  Good acting, terrific thriller, blah blah blah. The truth is it's very outdated, the acting is over the top, the story, the direction, the characters' situation, the music, everything is so 60's. Only watchable if you're an absolute fan of the 60's or as an historic curiosity.

• 'World's Champion Blind Woman'
  'Wait Until Dark' is about Suzy Hendrix, a newly blind woman who, very unfortunately, happens to come to posess a heroin-stuffed doll. The doll is wanted by three men, and Suzy just happens to be in their way.
  Audrey Hepburn as Suzy shows her true acting skills very well. Without using clouded lenses or even a cane for the most part, she makes you believe she is blind superbly. She is at once weak and blind yet strong and independent.
  And Alan Arkin as Mr Roat comes very close to stealing the... more info

• tap, tap, tap
  I watched this as a kid and it stuck in my mind so much that whenever it's on TV I always watch it.
  Everyone does so well in this, Hepburn is at once both fragile and strong, Crenna and Weston are hods but with some conscience about what they're doing. For me Alan Arkin stole the film, Roat is creepy. As it turns out I also found creepy to be very attractive and found myself almost rooting for the bad guy.
  It does look a little dated now but if you enjoy well acted suspence for example The Night... more info

• Terrific thriller
  I remember watching this on television in the 1970's and it was one the scariest films of any genre I'd ever seen. Audrey Hepburn is superb in an Oscar nominated performance as a blind women terrorised by 3 men who are looking for a doll which contains drugs. Its tautly directed by Terence Young (who also directed the first two James Bond films 'Dr No' and 'From Russia with love'). The excellent music soundtrack is by Henry Mancini.
  As well as the usual trailers, the DVD has an interesting short extra... more info

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