Wait Until Dark
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Wait Until Dark is a 1966 film which tells the story of a blind woman terrorized by two criminals searching for drugs in her apartment. It stars Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Jack Weston.
The movie was adapted by Robert Howard-Carrington and Jane Howard-Carrington from the play by Frederick Knott. It was directed by Terence Young.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (Audrey Hepburn).
Audrey Hepburn plays Susy, whose husband has asked to hold a doll for a woman as they get off an airplane. She disappears. Mike and Carlino (Richard Crenna & Jack Weston) are small time hoods who find the woman's body in Susie's apartment, placed there by her partner, Harry Roat (Alan Arkin). Susie's blindness is the key to them searching the apartment for the doll that contains smuggled drugs. Mike pretends to be an old friend of Susie's husband while her husband is away and together the crooks invent a story of a police investigation of her husband that only the discovery of the now missing doll can save him from. Roat is a killer, and his stalking of Susie becomes more and more obvious as the story unfolds, leaving us with the question, how does a blind woman defend herself?
When the film was initially released, theaters dimmed their lights to as low as they could, then turned off one light as each light in the apartment on-screen was shattered, until all of the lights in the theaters were completely turned off.