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Audrey Hepburn,
Audrey Hepburn,
Alan Arkin,
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Terence Young,
Terence Young
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: Not Rated
: Warner Home Video
: 108 min.
: English, French
: English, Spanish, French
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Wait Until Dark is an innovative, highly entertaining and suspenseful thriller about a blind housewife, Susy Hendrix (Audrey Hepburn). Independent and resourceful, Susy is learning to cope with her blindness, which resulted from a recent accident. She is aided by her difficult, slightly unreliable young neighbor Gloria (Julie Herrod) with whom she has an exasperated but lovingly maternal relationship. Susy's life is changed as she is terrorized by a group of criminals who believe she has hidden a baby doll used by them to smuggle heroin into the country. Unknown to Susy, her photographer husband Sam (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) took the doll as a favor for a woman he met on an international plane flight and unwittingly brought the doll to the couple's New York apartment when the woman became afraid of the customs officials. Alone in her apartment and cut-off from the outside world, Susy must fight for her life against a gang of ruthless criminals, led by the violent, psychotic Roat (Alan Arkin). The tension builds as Roat, aided by his gang, impersonates police officers and friends of her husband in order to win Susy's confidence, gaining access to her apartment to look for the doll. 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. All performances are outstanding, particularly those of Audrey Hepburn who plays a vulnerable, but self-reliant woman, and Alan Arkin, in perhaps his best role, as the ruthless, manipulative Roat. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide
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| My favorite movie villain!
by TNiksa
July 28, 2007 - 3:42 PM PDT
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| Ha. You can have Hannibal Lechter, Darth Vader, even Frank Booth and the Wicked Witch. Alan Arkin's Harry Roat Jr. could out-villain them all. Watching this movie for the first time in a college dorm rec hall in the mid- 70's I was thoroughly chilled and repelled by him. He starts off as just being weird - but that's to put his confederates -and you -off their guard. Soon he's tormenting the most sympathetic possible victim - a blind Audrey Hepburn (how could he!?). He has those dark glasses mocking Suzy's infirmity, that faux-solicitous manner toward her and oh he oozes confidence that he is in control. And Roat invented the "oh- he wasn't REALLY dead!" maneuver, often imitated, but never equalled in shock effect. The woman sitting next to me was nearly jolted into my lap - and she wasn't a small woman. |
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