Wait Until Dark
by Terence Young
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Actor: Alan Arkin, Audrey Hepburn, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jack Weston, Richard CrennaDirector: Terence Young
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Mel Ferrer
Cinematographer: Charles Lang
Editor: Gene Milford
Writer: Frederick Knott
Writer: Jane-Howard Carrington
Writer: Robert Carrington
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Wait Until Dark
DVD Review: Stands the test of time!
Summary: 4 Stars
An excellent cast and plot makes this movie a compelling thriller. It's great to see Hepburn, Crenna, Zimbalist Jr. Weston and Arkin together weaving their magic. The cars in the scenes may show their age, but the movie does not. Good is good, and this film is definitely worth watching.DVD Review: CLASSIC Audrey Hepburn Movie!! My Favorite!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Before I married my wife, I was not a big Audrey Hepburn fan at all. I had not seen any of her movies, and had only heard her name come up when Jennifer Love Hewitt did the TV movie about her several years ago. HOWEVER, my life changed (in more ways than one) when I married one of the biggest Audrey Hepburn fans of all time!! Before I knew it, I was singing along with "Just You Wait, Henry Higgins" with "My Fair Lady" and "Blue River" with "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and going crazy every single time I saw good AH movie that was not in my collection. When my wife told me about "Wait Until Dark", the fact that Audrey plays a blind woman sparked my curiosity and I bought it almost right away. BUT NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED ME FOR THIS MASTERPIECE!!! The movie is AMAZING, and I wish I was alive back when it was first released in theaters because that would have definitely been a wild experience. Scary movies these days are too unrealistic; directors seem to feel as if you have to have a lot of special effects, screaming, and bloody scenes to be effective. However, "Wait Until Dark" proves that sometimes it's not what you see that is scary, but rather what you do not. CLASSIC, CLASSIC, CLASSIC!!DVD Review: Good intense thriller
Summary: 4 Stars
I am taking a course in Graphic Design (computer graphics) at a community college whose drama group is putting on the play "Wait Until Dark." We were given a project to design a poster for the play - the best would be used for publicity. I did not see the movie when I was younger (I am retired and back in school for enjoyment) so I purchased the DVD to become familiar with the story. I liked it. It is a film in the Hitchcock tradition. It's not like the modern "slasher" or action movies. Instead, it grips you because the story relates to things that are much more plausible - by accident, anyone could be the target of nefarious people. The acting is quite good, especially Audrey Hepburn. I made the mistake of watching it on my computer while at school. I would recommend watching it on a larger screen in a darkened room. And just concentrate on the film; you need to let yourself get absorbed to get the full impact.DVD Review: Wait Until Dark(but not alone)
Summary: 5 Stars
Wait Until Dark w/Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna: By far this
movie is the best for keeping you glued to its every move..From "the get-go"
you're yelling at the screen to try to help Audrey survive her ordeal..and
when it really gets to the movies "heart", you can't even take a breath..
All your energy will be focused to saving Audrey from those evil men..each
person in this movie does a truely perfect acting job..you will never
forget "Wait Until Dark"..I still get the jitters after 41 years...A MUST
SEE..Mary Walton
DVD Review: Turn Out The Lights
Summary: 4 Stars
Based on the play by Frederick Knott, 1967's WAIT UNTIL DARK was very much "the" thriller of the era, a shocker that set audiences screaming--particularly in the film's final ten minutes, when cinema lights were lowered to the legal limit, placing both characters and audiences in near total blackout for the the movie's climax. The whole thing was a huge success, and it copped Audrey Hepburn still another Academy Award nomination as best actress.
Hepburn plays Susy Hendrix, a blind woman living with husband Sam in a New York apartment. Sam has recently come into possession of a doll which he later mislays--but unbeknownst to Sam and Susy the doll contains heroin, and three criminals set out to recover it. With Sam lured away for the night, the three attempt to con Susy into finding the doll and turning it over to them. But Susy is swifter on the uptake than they anticipate, and she uses her blindness as a weapon against her tormentors in an effort to escape them.
The stage play presents Susy as a strong, sexy, and clever woman who fights like hell; the film, however, presents her as somewhat timid and vulnerable. The result is very much a star-vehicle for Audrey Hepburn, who delivers a powerhouse performance--but the change in the character has the effect of rendering the center hour of the film a bit slow. Still, WAIT UNTIL DARK has a truly memorable first and last half hour and a truly disturbing performance by Alan Arkin, who creates one the most truly evil characters ever seen on screen. The supporting cast is also quite fine, featuring Richard Crenna, Jack Weston, and (the only cast member to repeat her stage role for the film) Julie Herrod.
Seen today, the performances sometimes seem a bit over the top and the film has moments of accidental camp--but it remains an effective thriller, and Audrey Hepburn fans will enjoying seeing her in this somewhat unlikely role. The DVD includes a short documentary that features producer Mel Ferrer and actor Alan Arkin. The print is very good, indeed borderline pristine. And yes--you really should watch this one in the dark. Recommended.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
Description of Wait Until Dark
A photographer's blind wife, trapped in her New York apartment by an evil trio who are ready to murder to retrieve a heroin-filled doll hidden in her apartment, cleverly outwits them. Music by Henry Mancini. Based on the long running Broadway play by Frederick Knott.Audrey Hepburn's last Oscar nomination was for this adaptation of Frederick Knott's famed stage thriller about a blind woman, a con man (Alan Arkin), and a doll full of heroin. Thanks to Hepburn's husband, a photographer who does a good deal of traveling, she's unknowingly come into possession of said doll, which was given to him on a plane by a comely young drug runner who winds up dead. The murderous Arkin, aided by sympathetic henchman Richard Crenna, will let nothing stand in the way of his obtaining it, even if it comes down to assaying multiple "personalities" in order to visit and terrorize Hepburn; Crenna is unwillingly enlisted to help. However, the "world's champion blind lady" (as Hepburn sardonically states) is more than up to the task of defending herself in her basement Manhattan apartment in a heart-stopping climax that to this day still defines the way horror movies with jack-in-the-box psychos are made. Despite the obvious staginess of it all (the entire action takes place in Hepburn's apartment), it still works magnificently, thanks to Hepburn's steely will and Arkin's deadly, sadistic madman. A helpful hint: turn out all the lights when you watch it; theaters back in 1967 did so, killing the guiding lights during the film's last 15 minutes. We can't tell you why, but trust us, it's worth it. --Mark Englehart
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