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Wait Until Dark (1967) Rank 3 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Wait Until Dark (1967) a score of 3.2436 out of 4

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Doug Pratt's Laserdisc Review

Audrey Hepburn is a blind woman terrorized by inventive drug dealers in the finely honed 1967 adaptation of a stage thriller. Shot on basically a single set, the villians go through an elaborate confidence scam to retrieve a doll filled with contraband ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Doug Pratt's Laserdisc Review

Quick Reviews (J.D. Funari)

Movie adaptation of well known play feels, well, just like a play. Hepburn is decent as recently injured blind woman who inadvertently becomes center of elaborate deception by low level thugs to retrieve a missing doll full of drugs. Catâ��nâ��mouse game ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Quick Reviews (J.D. Funari)

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)

One of the safest bets you can make is that a fair percentage of the audience will yell or gasp as they bolt upright at the climax of Frederick Knott's stage and screen thriller "Wait Until ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

It's been six months since I last explained the theory of the idiot plot, so maybe you won't mind if I have another go. Briefly, an idiot plot depends upon one or more characters being idiots. They get trapped in a situation that they could easily get ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Crazy for Cinema

SYNOPSIS: A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment. ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Crazy for Cinema

Chicago Reader (Dave Kehr)

This 1967 thriller draws its effectiveness less from the intelligence of the direction (by Terence Young) than from the unbridled sadism of the concept: Audrey Hepburn is a blind woman in unknowing possession of a doll stuffed with pure heroin. Alone in ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Chicago Reader (Dave Kehr)

New York Times (Bosley Crowther)

PATIENCE is strongly recommended for those who see "Wait Until Dark," the suspense thriller with Audrey Hepburn that arrived yesterday at the Music Hall-patience with the slow and tortuous build-up to the chilling dÃ©nouement and patience with some of ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at New York Times (Bosley Crowther)

Monsters At Play

Audrey Hepburn will always be remembered best for her career as film's foremost ingenue; the young girl who becomes a woman (see "Sabrina", "Breakfast at Tiffanys", et al.). But later in her career, her then husband, producer Mel Ferrer, found a ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Monsters At Play

411Mania.com (Dunn)

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That Cow (Andrew Bradford)

I wonder how many people pick up on the fact that this was originally a play. There are some of the usual telltale signs - most of the action takes place in a single location, there's a small number of characters (only 7 are credited), and those ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at That Cow (Andrew Bradford)

Nashville Scene (Noel Murray)

Audrey Hepburn plays a blind woman at the center of a cruel con game, as Alan Arkin and his criminal buddies sneak into her apartment under false pretenses to locate a doll stuffed with heroin. This classy suspense film is best remembered for its climax, ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Nashville Scene (Noel Murray)

Time Out (--)

An effective shocker which has the blind Hepburn alone in the house when psychotic villain Arkin and his hoodlum pals (Crenna and Weston) arrive to retrieve a doll containing heroin which her husband (Zimbalist) unwittingly brought through customs for ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Time Out (--)

Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Beth Gilligan)

Years before women-in-jeopardy movies became a staple of the Lifetime channel, Audrey Hepburn scored a critical and box office success playing a blind woman menaced by a group of thugs in Wait Until Dark. While the source material (a Broadway play by ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Beth Gilligan)

Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)

a perfect example of how mood, atmosphere, music, and direction can overcome plot weaknesses ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)

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