1967 · thriller · crime
Wait Until Dark
Directed by Terence Young1h 48m1967
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
Our read: Wait Until Dark (1967) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
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