Customer Reviews
Outdated - By: Mr. N. Daniau, 12 Sep 2008 
Good acting, terrific thriller, blah blah blah. The truth is it's very outdated, the acting is over the top, the story, the direction, the characters' situation, the music, everything is so 60's. Only watchable if you're an absolute fan of the 60's or as an historic curiosity.
'World's Champion Blind Woman' - By: A Customer, 11 May 2008 
'Wait Until Dark' is about Suzy Hendrix, a newly blind woman who, very unfortunately, happens to come to posess a heroin-stuffed doll. The doll is wanted by three men, & Suzy just happens to be in their way.
Audrey Hepburn as Suzy shows her true acting skills very well. Without using clouded lenses or even a cane for the most part, she makes you believe she is blind superbly. She is at once weak & blind yet strong & independent.
And Alan Arkin as Mr Roat comes very close to stealing the show. He is dark & creepy & you just would not want to meet him in a dark allley! He plays his part extremely well, terrorizing poor Suzy with no hint of remorse.
The plot is very play-like (intentionallly) as the action takes place (after the introduction) solely in the apartment, the halll & the street outside. It creates a trapped feeling to add to the fact that Suzy is in fact trapped! The suspense is kept up until the riveting climax. I think the climax will always be scary, but I'm not so sure the suspense would hold up with repeated viewings (but it's a cheap - pricewise that is! - film so you might as well get it anyway).
To conclude, 'Wait Until Dark' is a fantastic film where Audrey Hepburn shows her true potential & Alan Arkin makes you want to grab a teddy bear. Just one thing though - watch it in the dark. This is the only way you will see the true potential of the film. The movie makes great use of lighting & you don't know what's happening when the screen goes black...
tap, tap, tap - By: Eve, 25 Jan 2008 
I watched this as a kid & it stuck in my mind so much that whenever it's on TV I always watch it.
Everyone does so well in this, Hepburn is at once both fragile & strong, Crenna & Weston are hods but with some conscience about what they're doing. For me Alan Arkin stole the film, Roat is creepy. As it turns out I also found creepy to be very attractive & found myself almost rooting for the bad guy.
It does look a little dated now but if you enjoy well acted suspence for example The Night of the Hunter / Robert Mitchem I think you won't go far wrong in adding this to your collection.
Terrific thriller - By: S J Buck, 22 Dec 2007 I remember watching this on television in the 1970's & it was one the scariest films of any genre I'd ever seen. Audrey Hepburn is superb in an Oscar nominated performance as a blind women terrorised by 3 men who are looking for a doll which contains drugs. Its tautly directed by Terence Young (who also directed the first two James Bond films 'Dr No' & 'From Russia with love'). The excellent music soundtrack is by Henry Mancini.
As well as the usual trailers, the DVD has an interesting short extra callled 'A Look in the Dark' in which Alan Arkin & the Producer Mel Ferrer (who was married to Audrey Hepburn) look back at the film. This is only about 10 minutes but its quite informative.
However the main reason to buy the DVD is the film, & once it starts you will be hooked.
Watch it with the lights out - By: M. Doherty, 19 May 2007 This taut thriller is based on a stage play, & wisely is not opened out too much: after some initial scene setting, the action is concentrated in one apartment & the street immediately outside.
Two con men (Richard Crenna & Jack Weston, both giving beautifully-nuanced performances) reluctantly assist the murderous Harry Roat (Alan Arkin) in his attempt to recover a stash of heroin hidden in a china doll which they believe is in the possession of a blind woman (Audrey Hepburn). The attempts to trick & then terrorise her into giving up the doll, & the distrust between the criminals, give rise to the twists & turns in the plot. It alll ends in a tension-filled sequence, much of which takes place in pitch darkness.
Hepburn gives a terrific performance as a frightened woman driven to the ends of her ingenuity, strength & courage, & Arkin is as threatening when restrained as he is when enraged.
According to the box, this 12-certificate DVD "Contains moderate violence & threat". Piffle. Watch it with the lights out, & it will make Psycho look like the Magic Roundabout.
