Wait until dark [videorecording] / Warner Brothers-Seven Arts Pictures ; produced by Mel Ferrer ; directed by Terence Young.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 27527 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: [United States] : Warner Home Video, 2003.Edition: Widescreen edDescription: 1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0790779374
- 9780790779379
- Wait until dark (Motion picture : 1967)
- Executive producer, Walter MacEwen ; music by Henry Mancini ; produced on the New York stage by Fred Coe ; screenplay by Robert & Jane-Howard Carrington ; produced by Mel Ferrer ; directed by Terence Young.
- Academy Award for best actress, 1967.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | DRAMA Wait unt | Checked out | 05/15/2024 | 33111006044958 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Wait Until Dark is an innovative, highly entertaining and suspenseful thriller about a blind housewife, Susy Hendrix (Audrey Hepburn). Independent and resourceful, Susy is learning to cope with her blindness, which resulted from a recent accident. She is aided by her difficult, slightly unreliable young neighbor Gloria (Julie Herrod) with whom she has an exasperated but lovingly maternal relationship. Susy's life is changed as she is terrorized by a group of criminals who believe she has hidden a baby doll used by them to smuggle heroin into the country. Unknown to Susy, her photographer husband Sam (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) took the doll as a favor for a woman he met on an international plane flight and unwittingly brought the doll to the couple's New York apartment when the woman became afraid of the customs officials. Alone in her apartment and cut-off from the outside world, Susy must fight for her life against a gang of ruthless criminals, led by the violent, psychotic Roat (Alan Arkin). The tension builds as Roat, aided by his gang, impersonates police officers and friends of her husband in order to win Susy's confidence, gaining access to her apartment to look for the doll. The climax of the film, a violent physical confrontation between Susie and Roat in her dark kitchen, is one of the most memorable and frightening scenes in screen history. All performances are outstanding, particularly those of Audrey Hepburn who plays a vulnerable, but self-reliant woman, and Alan Arkin, in perhaps his best role, as the ruthless, manipulative Roat. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi
Based on a play by Frederick Knott.
Video disc release of the 1967 motion picture.
Executive producer, Walter MacEwen ; music by Henry Mancini ; produced on the New York stage by Fred Coe ; screenplay by Robert & Jane-Howard Carrington ; produced by Mel Ferrer ; directed by Terence Young.
Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Jack Weston, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
A photographer unwittingly smuggles a doll stuffed with heroin into New York City. His recently blinded wife, alone in their apartment, is first terrorized by hired crooks, and then by the psychopathic Roat, in search of the doll.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD, Dolby digital, Region 1 encoding, mono.
Closed-captioned ; English and French language tracks with subtitles in English, French, and Spanish.
Academy Award for best actress, 1967.