Wait Until Dark (1967)
Directed by Terence
Young this film based on the play of the same name stars Audrey
Hepburn, Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna. Three con men try to trick a
woman struggling to come to terms with being blind into giving them a
doll stuffed with heroin.
At times it does seem
like the crooks in this film are going to slightly silly lengths to
get what they want while the heroine is a little too trusting but
largely the story is not too bad. Where the film works best is in how
the antagonists underestimate the protagonist just because she is
blind and how the protagonist over comes her disability to out wit
the bad guys. Largely the film is well made although I am not sure
that Hepburn is suited to being a scream queen as required in some
sequences.
3/5
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