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- 1967
- Approved
- Warner Bros./Seven Arts
- 1 h 48 m
- 1967
- Approved
- Warner Bros./Seven Arts
- 1 h 48 m
Summary A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.
Directed By: Terence Young
- 1967
- Approved
- Warner Bros./Seven Arts
- 1 h 48 m
- 1967
- Approved
- Warner Bros./Seven Arts
- 1 h 48 m
Wait Until Dark
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Summary A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.
Directed By: Terence Young
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
81
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Wait Until Dark emerges as an excellent suspense drama, effective in casting, scripting, direction and genuine emotional impact.
When the lights go out at the end of the film, so did the lights in the movie theaters.Terence Young’s tense cinematic adaptation so ruthlessly tightens the screws of tension that one could be forgiven for not noticing an earthquake, much less dimmed house lights.
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7.3
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This thriller draws its effectiveness less from the intelligence of the direction (by Terence Young) than from the unbridled sadism of the concept: Audrey Hepburn is a blind woman in unknowing possession of a doll stuffed with pure heroin. Alone in her New York apartment, she's terrorized by a gang of thugs that includes slobbering psycho Alan Arkin and smooth-talking Richard Crenna.
An outstanding thriller based on a stageplay (by Frederick Knott) that fits so much better on the screen because, as well as the expansive, cinema is really good at claustrophobia.
Hepburn's blend of pluckiness and self-pity and Arkin's cool cunning give Wait Until Dark emotional weight, but their final tussle is what most fans of the film remember.
Expertly directed by veteran British helmsman Young, Wait Until Dark is an exciting, original chiller.
An effective shocker which has the blind Hepburn alone in the house when psychotic villain Arkin and his hoodlum pals (Crenna and Weston) arrive to retrieve a doll containing heroin which her husband (Zimbalist) unwittingly brought through customs for them. Though based on a stage play (by Frederick Knott), the skillful use of interiors for once transcends the visual limitations.
