31 Days of Halloween: Day Five

Wait Until Dark (1967 – NR in the US, but the suspense is fantastic and Audrey Hepburn makes me tingle, but that might be TMI)

Summary (from IMDB):

Susy’s husband is asked to hold a doll for a woman as they get off an airplane. She disappears. Mike and Carlino are small time hoods who find the woman’s body in Susie’s apartment, placed there by her partner, Harry Rote. Susie’s blindness is the key to them searching the apartment for the doll that contains smuggled drugs. Mike pretends to be an old friend of Susie’s husband while her husband is away and together the crooks invent a story of a police investigation of her husband that only the discovery of the now missing doll can save him from. Rote is a killer, and his stalking of Susie becomes more and more obvious as the story unfolds, leaving us with the question, how does a blind woman defend herself?

RB Wood’s Rating (Out of 5) 4 stunning brunettes

A bit of a departure tonight.  Away from the normal horror genre, this is pure thriller and pure suspense.  Susy (played by Hepburn) is recently blind young woman living in her basement apartment with her husband Sam (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.). When Sam returns with a doll packed with Herion (unbeknown to the young couple), the unfriendlies show up.

Audrey Hepburn is a not-so-secret crush of mine, and she is brilliant as Susy.  But Alan Arkin is be far the show stealer as the morally bankrupt Character of Roat.  He his calculating and ruthless.  And is absolutely perfect.  I’ve included this gem of a film here because it will terrorize you even more than many of the flicks I’ll be reviewing this month. Based on the play by the late Frederick Knott (who also penned Dial ‘M’ for Murder), the script will keep you on the edge of your seat until the credits roll. A perfect thriller for the season!

Tomorrow: “Three years ago, three of my colleagues were investigating what happened in that house. Two died mysteriously. The third was never found.”

Peace