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Wait Until Dark is a american film of genre Drama directed by Terence Young released in USA on 26 october 1967 with Audrey Hepburn

Wait Until Dark (1967)

Wait Until Dark
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Released in USA 26 october 1967
Length 1h48
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Horror,    Crime
Rating76% 3.8470053.8470053.8470053.8470053.847005

Wait Until Dark is a 1967 suspense-thriller film directed by Terence Young and produced by Mel Ferrer. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a young blind woman, Alan Arkin as a violent criminal searching for some drugs, and Richard Crenna as another criminal, supported by Jack Weston, Julie Herrod, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.. The screenplay by Robert Carrington and Jane-Howard Carrington is based on the stage play of the same name by Frederick Knott.

Audrey Hepburn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1968, losing to Katharine Hepburn in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Zimbalist was nominated for a Golden Globe in the supporting category. The film is ranked #55 on AFI's 2001 100 Years…100 Thrills list, and its climax is ranked tenth on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

Synopsis

In a Montreal apartment, a woman named Lisa (Samantha Jones) waits for an old man to sew bags of heroin into the cloth body of an old-fashioned doll. As she leaves the apartment with the doll, we see the man watching her leave, then dialing someone on the phone. Lisa takes the doll with her on an airline flight to New York City, but when, on disembarking, she sees a man watching her, she becomes worried and gives the doll for safekeeping to a man she'd spoken with on the plane, professional photographer Sam Hendrix (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.). The man who'd been watching Lisa then roughly escorts her away. Later, when Lisa calls Sam about the doll, Sam and his wife, Susy (Audrey Hepburn), who is blind from an auto accident, are unable to find it.

Actors

Audrey Hepburn

(Susy Hendrix)
Alan Arkin

(Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.)
Richard Crenna

(Mike Talman)
Efrem Zimbalist II

(Sam Hendrix)
Jack Weston

(Carlino)
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