Just finished watching the 1969 Movie “Wait Until Dark” again, and MAN! I’d forgotten how GOOD it was! Audrey Hepburn is one of my very favorite actresses, and this was the very FIRST movie I’d ever seen her in! I had no idea how much I would come to love her later when seeing her in movies like “Breakfast At Tiffany’s”, “Roman Holiday” or “Love In The Afternoon”, but it was her role as blind Susy Hendrix where I first discovered how awesome she was and prompted me to seek out all her other movies!
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| Audrey Hepburn as Susy Hendrix in Wait Until Dark |
I had been talking to a friend about Audrey (having just recently rewatched the aforementioned “Breakfast at Tiffany’s’) and he mentioned Wait Until Dark. “You Know”, I sheepishly admitted, “though I love Audrey and have quite a few of her movies, Wait Until Dark is one the that I didn’t own on DVD! I did own a VHS copy of the movie I dubbed off TV years ago, but my VHS player has seen some better days, and I’m not even sure the tape would have played at this point! I decided right then that I HAD to get a proper copy of this classic movie!
Good old Amazon- not only did I find a seller who was selling it for a very reasonable price, the shipping was free and arrived at my doorstep within the week! As SOON as I got that package in the mail, I immediately popped it in my DVD player and sat down to catch up on the movie! Like I said, I was blown away by how good it was even after all this time, Audrey as perfect as ever, and one other element I’d forgotten about was how freakin’ awesome ALAN ARKIN was in this movie, playing the role of the oily and VERY sinister Roat!
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| Alan Arkin as Roat |
I’m so used to seeing Arkin as this old curmudgeonish guy, I forgot how slick and deadly he could be! With only her sweet sensibilities to guide her, poor Audrey is put through the wringer with the ruthless killer, as he tries to track down a doll with a hidden cache of heroin in it!
Audrey didn’t make all that many movies after this one, but what a way to go out! Not only was this Terence Stamp (he of James Bond fame) directed movie as good as any Hitchcock flick, they even got Audrey’s music scorer Henry Mancini from Breakfast at Tiffany’s back to do the music for this chiller! VERY COOL!
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| Samantha Jones as Lisa |
PS, Who’s this Samantha Jones actress they got playing the role of doomed drug trafficker Lisa anyway? So VERY pretty in that groovy swinging sixties kind of way, but I don’t think she appeared in anything after that!
PPS: Happy Birthday, Audrey!!
