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Wait Until Dark
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7.3After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
Cast
- Audrey Hepburn as Susy Hendrix
- Alan Arkin as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.
- Richard Crenna as Mike Talman
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Sam Hendrix
- Jack Weston as Carlino
- Samantha Jones as Lisa
Themes
- police
- photographer
- heroin
- search
- murder
- neighbor
- doll
- blindness
- blind woman
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Terence Young
- Screenplay by
- Robert Carrington Jane-Howard Carrington
- Based on
- Wait Until Dark , by Frederick Knott
- Produced by
- Mel Ferrer
- Starring
- Audrey Hepburn Alan Arkin Richard Crenna Jack Weston Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
- Cinematography
- Charles Lang
- Edited by
- Gene Milford
- Music by
- Henry Mancini
- Production company
- Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
- Release date
- October 26, 1967 ( 1967-10-26 )
- Running time
- 108 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $3 million
- Box office
- $17.5 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 107
- FilmAffinity ID
- 238181
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- publication date
- 1967-01-01
- title
- Wait Until Dark
- review score
- 96%
- Commons category
- Wait Until Dark (film)
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Wait Until Dark is a 1967 American psychological thriller film made by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts starring Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, and Richard Crenna. The picture was directed by Terence Young and produced by Mel Ferrer, from a screenplay by Robert Carrington and Jane-Howard Carrington based on the 1966 play by Frederick Knott. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Jack Weston appear in supporting roles.
Hepburn earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her performance, while Zimbalist was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. The film is ranked number 55 on the American Film Institute's 2001 "100 Years...100 Thrills" list, and its climax is ranked tenth on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.