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Wait Until Dark (1967) Rank 5 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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Channel 4 Film (--)

Housebound psychological thriller in which a blind Audrey Hepburn is terrorized by a leather-clad Alan Arkin, who wants a heroin-stuffed doll that has been secreted in her apartment. ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Channel 4 Film (--)

At-A-Glance Film Reviews

A chilling film, even by today's standards. This is a masterfully crafted thriller about three crooks who manipulate a blind woman to recover lost smuggled goods. Audrey Hepburn is fantastic in the lead role, while Alan Arkin makes a terrifying villain. ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at At-A-Glance Film Reviews

Movie Eye (David Litton)

Before it was re-envisioned as David Fincher's 2002 box office hit "Panic Room," the house arrest thriller got its most inventive and successful film treatment in 1967 with the release of Terence Young's "Wait Until Dark." The movie opens with a young ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Movie Eye (David Litton)

Austin Chronicle (--)

A genuine suspense movie, Wait Until Dark is a taut thriller that stars Audrey Hepburn as a blind woman tormented by gangsters who believe their heroin is hidden in her apartment. ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Austin Chronicle (--)

The Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)

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HorrorTalk

Wait Until Dark begins with a backbone to the story of which we are about to forge upon. As the film opens we see an old man splicing a doll with a knife in many ways resembling how you would butcher and than carve out the organs of an animal, the organs ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at HorrorTalk

Slant Magazine

Wait Until Dark, Frederick Knott's gimmicky stage play about a blind woman terrorized by crooks, was brought to the screen in 1967 and was accompanied by an even more outlandish gimmick. When the lights go out at the end of the film, so did the lights in ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Slant Magazine

Home Theater Info DVD Review

As a teenager I used to take the subway into Manhattan Saturday mornings and go to the movies. One of the most memorable of these films was without a doubt 'Wait Until Dark'. ...read the complete Wait Until Dark movie review at Home Theater Info DVD Review

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

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)

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)

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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