Review of Wait Until Dark (1967) by Austin D — 24 Sep 2007
A first-rate thriller with an excellent plot and great acting. I watched this film because my mom recommended it...but mostly because of Audrey Hepburn. Keeping with my recent Hepburn marathon, I watched this not knowing what to expect.
Iâ??ve never seen her in a murder-mystery role before. She was great, so was Alan Arkin. The plot of this film is so good. Hepburn plays a blind woman caught up in a drug trade-off that results in the placing of the drugs in a doll, that is in her house.
Sounds crazy, and it is. The plot is pretty thick to get through in the beginning but towards the end it all comes together. As Iâ??ve made it known before, Iâ??m a sucker for suspense driven stories.
This whole film was about 107 minutes of pure on-the-edge-of-your-seat suspense, ending with an amazingly scary face-off between Arkin and Hepburn (in pitch black at some points). Hepburn, in her middle thirties here is still as beautiful as ever and she really pulls of the role of the blind woman with an amazing attention to detail.
The direction is good, but nothing worth noting. Hepburn and Arkin are what makes this film good. (Note: The same playwright who wrote Dial M for Murder wrote this also).
This review of Wait Until Dark (1967) was written by Austin D on 24 Sep 2007.
Wait Until Dark has generally received very positive reviews.
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