#wait until dark

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Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark (1967)

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Audrey Hepburn photographed by Howell Conant for Wait Until Dark, 1967.

[genes-tierney]

Well, what if I get chopped up into little pieces and dumped into the river? Little tiny pieces that nobody could possibly ever recognize as being a poor, defenseless old blind lady whose husband was off in Asbury Park.

WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967) dir. Terence Young

[petercushings]

Roat's dead. He didn't like us, you know. Any of us. So we had to get rid of him.

WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967) dir. Terence Young

[helloliriels]

WAIT UNTIL DARK by helloliriels

Dr. John Watson returns from an overnight trip with something in his luggage he is not aware he is carrying, and immediately heads to work; While Sherlock Holmes, his recently blinded and petulant flatmate is stuck at 221B, itching for a case ... and may have just literally stumbled into one ... !

Drug smuggling; Murderous criminals; whump; hurt/comfort; and a dash of angst; not bored now, are you?

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Was gonna rename it 'Perfect Dark' or 'Games In The Dark' but undecided. So I left it. Consider my job here done.

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WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967) dir. Terence Young 

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Audrey Hepburn as Susy Hendrix in Wait Untill Dark ✧ 1967

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Alan Arkin as Roat | Wait Until Dark, 1967 dir. Terence Young

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Audrey Hepburn, Wait Until Dark

[audreyhepburninblackandwhite]

On the set of Wait Until Dark Producer Mel Ferrer, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., and Audrey Hepburn in 1967

[nitrateglow]

Is this like... for a double feature? If so, that's hilarious... mainly because these happen to be two films in my personal top five.

[genes-tierney]

Do I have to be the world's champion blind lady?

AUDREY HEPBURN as SUSY HENDRIX in WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967) dir. Terence Young

[m--bloop]

Alan Arkin as Roat

Wait Until Dark dir Terence Young (1967)

[thriller-horror-girls-tourney]

Propaganda:

Bridget: she's got Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome so she's motor-disabled and she has to fight a whole frontier town full of clones of her fiancé and herself in order to find her fiancé et leave the town. Which you can only leave with the people you can in with. And of course if either of them are killed before they leave... the other can't leave.

[mygreatadventurehasbegun]

A couple new observations from my annual viewing of Wait Until Dark...

~Near the end of the film, when Susy tries to bluff her way out of the apartment, she tells Mike that she would have remembered about the doll if "that awful Sgt. Carlino" hadn't been hounding her...and Carlino looks so offended. First of all, dude, how did you expect her to feel about you? Secondly, it's an interesting layer to his character...as he used to be a cop, and at some point, left the force in disgrace (one can assume)...and that reaction shows that, at some point, he really did want to be a good police officer and help people...but he ended up as a con artist instead.

~When Susy calls the "6th precinct" to speak to Roat, Jr., Mike taps on the van window to tell Roat about the call...and when Roat exits the van, he looks so annoyed. You can tell he's getting frustrated with Susy and this entire charade, and he just wants his damn heroin. But all he shows on the outside is a quick gritting of his teeth.

~When Roat shows up as Roat Jr. for the first time (in that terrible wig), I noticed that he wasn't wearing both of his gloves, which I found odd...especially since he's so careful about fingerprints. Granted, he's holding a hat the entire time, but you never know. Then I noticed that he's wearing a wedding ring. But for who? Susy can't see it, and Mike and Carlino know it's all a ruse. Yes, he uses the costumes to make sure that his true face isn't seen by anyone outside the apartment (or Gloria), but the wedding band is such a small detail. It really shows how Roat is so dedicated to playing these characters. A true theatre kid..."if I'm playing a married man, I need a wedding ring." And I double-checked, he's not wearing one at any other point in the movie (though you do see him wearing one in a couple promo shots).

~And probably the biggest thing I noticed...after Susy has doused Roat with gasoline and starts lighting those matches, I saw that Roat was still holding that scarf...and I thought "wow, he's committed to that being his murder weapon, he didn't let it go after all that." But then I re-watched the scene and realized that when she strikes that first match, he is holding it in both hands like he was reaching out to strangle her with it. I never noticed that before! I think I always saw the fire from the match first and then Roat falling backwards. But he was actually trying to find her in the pitch dark to just end it all then and there!

Also, I love Roat/Alan Arkin's accent. The way he says "photographer" always makes me smile. I almost think he leaned into his accent more than he normally would have in other roles.

[vallygirl285]

Seriously Wait Until Dark is a masterpiece!! That is mainly thanks to Alan Arkin’s performance in it.

So many great movies this man made.

RIP Mr. Arkin