Wait Until Dark (1967)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Very Cool!!!

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

I watched this for the first time in the middle of the day, with the lights on, on my laptop. It still scared the spit out of me. That terror is only heightened when the lights go out and the screen gets bigger. Audrey Hepburn is my favorite actor of all time, and this is my favorite performance of hers.

Just because there were no blood and explicit sexual scenes doesn't mean that the oldies couldn't have produced a suspenseful and meaningful thriller about a blind girl caught up in a scheme by two scoundrels trying to take the advantage of her handicap. We usually haven't seen Audrey Hepburn in this kind of roles, but she managed to portray an innocent, yet capable blind girl pretty persuasive, as did once young Alan Arkin as her nemesis. As for the script, there will be some really great scenes towards the end and the overall sense of adequate approach to the plot will be present. "Wait until dark" is one of those movies that will persuade you that all the great ideas were already used in classic Hollywood and that everything that followed represents merely a deja vu.

I saw this movie on vacation when I was about 13. It was a night I'll never forget. My brother sat next to me, and literally screamed during the movies climactic scene. I don't know what I did, but being younger than him, I was a bit unnerved.This was one of the scariest movies made in the 60's. It seemed relatively low budget, but that sometimes only adds to the fear factor.

WAIT UNTIL DARK is one of those expert stage plays that's translated beautifully to film. It's the classic one-room story, proving that you don't need endless changes of location to keep a film varied, interesting, and light-footed, and it has a wonderful script that segues from light-hearted humour and interaction to a deadly serious game of survival. In many ways, this is a film made before its time. Audrey Hepburn is the tough woman-in-peril a full twelve years before Ellen Ripley made the character a stereotype, and the climatic, well-remembered shock sequence in which Alan Arkin returns from the dead neatly prefigures the endless recycling of the villains in the likes of '80s slasher fare such as Friday the 13th.It's one of those films which is pure entertainment to watch. Everything is spot on: the acting, the set, the script, the music. There's no rush to get on with the plot in hand, no grated-on action sequences, just endless suspenseful moments, a growing mystery, and punctuations of twists and turns that never disappoint. Audrey Hepburn, lovely in the role of the blind woman being stalked by three sinister figures, is perfectly cast and never fails for a moment to convince that she's a disabled woman. Of the rest of the cast, it's Alan Arkin who steals the scenes with his evil-personified persona of 'Roat', and Richard Crenna who excels as one of the bad guys who actually turns out to be not so bad after all.Things gradually build up to a fitting crescendo, a pay-off that fits the bill perfectly and ends the film as it could only be ended. Only one thing surprises me: that Hitchcock didn't direct this. I'm not saying Terence Young did a bad job, just that if Hitchcock had directed it then many more people would remember it today than they do now. It's a shame, as this is every bit as good as some of the master film-maker's mystery movies.