Wait Until Dark. Photos Top cast Edit. Alan Arkin Roat as Roat …. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Sam Hendrix as Sam Hendrix.
Jack Weston Carlino as Carlino. Samantha Jones Lisa as Lisa. Julie Herrod Gloria as Gloria. Packy McFarland Passerbye as Passerbye uncredited. Frank O'Brien Shatner as Shatner uncredited. Terence Young. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Susy was recently blinded and recently married.
Susy's husband, Sam, is asked to hold a doll for a woman he doesn't know as they get off an airplane. The woman disappears. Later, she's found dead by her former associates, Mike and Carlino, small-time hoods, in Susy's basement apartment.
Both occupants of the apartment are then absent. The doll woman's newer partner in crime, Harry Rote, who murdered her for self-dealing, presses Mike and Carlino into a scheme to recover the doll, which contains a fortune in smuggled heroin. After disposing of the body, the thugs return while Susy is present to continue their search.
They assume Susy's blindness will enable them to search her apartment under her very nose for the doll. In Sam's absence, Mike pretends to be an old friend of Sam's, while the three together spin for Susy a story of a murder investigation of her husband from which only the finding of the missing doll can save him.
Rote is a predator, and his stalking of Susy becomes ever more obvious as the blind woman's predicament becomes ever more desperate. A blind woman plays a deadly game of survival.
Not Rated. Did you know Edit. When asked if he was surprised that he was overlooked for "Wait Until Dark", his second movie, he replied: "You don't get nominated for being mean to Audrey Hepburn! Goofs Susy demonstrates excellent hearing and observation skills: she can tell when people are in her apartment, notices Carlino dusting for prints, people fiddling with the blinds, Roat's squeaky shoes, etc.
However, she does not appear to notice the rotary-dial mismatch between the telephone number Mike Tallman says he's calling and the number he actually dials. It's easy to tell what number is being dialed if you listen and count the number of clicks. Quotes Susy Hendrix : Gloria? Gloria : Yeah? Crazy credits The end credits show each character with the performer's credit; Alan Arkin is shown three times, including once in each disguise. Connections Featured in Terror in the Aisles User reviews Review.
Top review. Very confusing, but it's a good thriller with a good plot. They get trapped in a situation that they could easily get out of with common sense. But they don't, being idiots. If they did, they'd solve the problem and the movie would be over. Idiot plots usually turn up in bad movies, but occasionally they creep into superior films like this one, causing unhappy distractions. After she is left alone in her apartment, three men terrorize her in an attempt to find the doll.
They stage an elaborate act in which one plays a cop, one plays an old college chum of her husband and the third plays -- but never mind. The important thing is, these three guys walk in and out of her apartment with complete freedom. The door is unlocked. First one guy comes in. Then he leaves and someone else turns up. Finally the girl realizes she's in danger. So far, so good. We can swallow the first hour of the movie, even though it's rather unlikely, simply because we like to be entertained and want to be convinced.
She's left alone. The guys are gone for a moment. There's a little girl living upstairs, and Audrey sends her to the bus terminal to wait for her husband's bus. Another idiot plot slip-up. Why not send the girl to the police? Then she's alone again. But she can lock it. She doesn't. The bad guys come in and out of the apartment like finalists in a revolving door sweepstakes. In the dark privacy of the 19th row, made all the more suspenseful because the lights in the theater are turned out for the last scenes, am I frightened?
On the edge of my chair? No, I'm asking myself why she doesn't lock the door. Otherwise, it's a good movie.
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