Wait Until Dark (film)
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| Directed by | Terence Young |
| Produced by | Mel Ferrer |
| Screenplay by | Robert Carrington Jane-Howard Carrington |
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Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott |
| Starring |
Audrey Hepburn Alan Arkin Richard Crenna |
| Music by | Henry Mancini |
| Cinematography | Charles Lang |
| Edited by | Gene Milford |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
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108 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3 million |
| Box office | $17,550,741 |
Wait Until Dark is a 1967 psychological horror thriller film directed by Terence Young and produced by Mel Ferrer. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a young blind woman, Alan Arkin as a violent criminal searching for some drugs, and Richard Crenna as another criminal, supported by Jack Weston, Julie Herrod, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.. The screenplay by Robert Carrington and Jane-Howard Carrington is based on the 1966 play by Frederick Knott.
Audrey Hepburn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1967. Zimbalist was nominated for a Golden Globe in the supporting category. The film is ranked #55 on AFI's 2001 100 Years…100 Thrills list, and its climax is ranked tenth on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
A woman named Lisa (Samantha Jones) takes a flight from Montreal to New York City, smuggling bags of heroin sewn inside an old-fashioned doll. When she disembarks, Lisa becomes worried upon seeing a man watching her and gives the doll to a fellow passenger, professional photographer Sam Hendrix (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), for safekeeping. Lisa is roughly escorted away by the man. Later, when Lisa calls Sam about the doll, he and his wife Susy (Audrey Hepburn), who is blind from an auto accident, are unable to find it.
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