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A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.
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  • Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 nominations.
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Susy Hendrix
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Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.
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Mike Talman
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Sam Hendrix
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Carlino
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Lisa
Julie Herrod ...
Gloria
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Boy Tossing Ball (uncredited)
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The Old Man (uncredited)
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French-Canadian Radio Speaker (uncredited) (voice)
Packy McFarland ...
Passerbye (uncredited)
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Teenage Boy on Street (uncredited)
Frank O'Brien ...
Shatner (uncredited)
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BG with Dog (uncredited)

Directed by

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Terence Young

Written by

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Frederick Knott ... (based on the play by)
 
Robert Carrington ... (screenplay) &
Jane-Howard Hammerstein ... (screenplay) (as Jane-Howard Carrington)

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Mel Ferrer ... producer

Music by

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Henry Mancini

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Charles Lang ... director of photography

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Gene Milford

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George Jenkins

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George James Hopkins

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Gordon Bau ... makeup supervisor
Jean Burt Reilly ... supervising hair stylist

Production Management

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Russell Llewellyn ... unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Jack Aldworth ... assistant director

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John Barton ... assistant property master (uncredited)
Craig Binkley ... set dresser (uncredited)
Frank L. Brown ... set dresser (uncredited)
Bill Gold ... poster designer (uncredited)
Don Miller ... assistant property master (uncredited)
Ward Preston ... set designer (uncredited)
Tyrus Wong ... art department (uncredited)

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Everett A. Hughes ... sound (as Everett Hughes)

Stunts

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Carey Loftin ... stunts (uncredited)
Glenn R. Wilder ... stunt double (uncredited)

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George Gordon Nogle ... camera operator (uncredited)

Music Department

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Laurindo Almeida ... musician: guitar (uncredited)
Robert Bain ... musician: guitar (uncredited)
Ray Brown ... musician: bass (uncredited)
Caesar Giovannini ... musician: piano (uncredited)
Jack Hayes ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Artie Kane ... musician: piano and organ (uncredited)
Pearl Kaufman ... musician: piano (uncredited)
George Korngold ... music editor (uncredited)
Virginia Majewski ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Henry Mancini ... conductor (uncredited)
Shelly Manne ... musician: drums (uncredited)
Muzzy Marcellino ... musician: whistling (uncredited)
Richard Nash ... musician: trombone (uncredited)
Ted Nash ... musician: woodwinds (uncredited)
Jimmy Rowles ... musician: piano (uncredited)
Bud Shank ... musician: woodwinds (uncredited)
Jack Sheldon ... musician: trumpet (uncredited)
Leo Shuken ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Raymond Turner ... musician: piano (uncredited)
Dan Wallin ... music scoring mixer (uncredited)

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Doris DeHerdt ... script supervisor (uncredited)
Crayton Smith ... script supervisor trainee (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Fred Coe ... produced on the New York stage by
Wayne Fitzgerald ... title designer (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Susy was recently blinded and recently married. Susy's husband, Sam, is asked to hold a doll for a woman he doesn't know as they get off an airplane. The woman disappears. Later, she's found dead by her former associates, Mike and Carlino, small-time hoods, in Susy's basement apartment. (Both occupants of the apartment are then absent.) The doll woman's newer partner in crime, Harry Rote, who murdered her for self-dealing, presses Mike and Carlino into a scheme to recover the doll, which contains a fortune in smuggled heroin. After disposing of the body, the thugs return while Susy is present to continue their search. They assume Susy's blindness will enable them to search her apartment under her very nose for the doll. In Sam's absence, Mike pretends to be an old friend of Sam's, while the three together spin for Susy a story of a murder investigation of her husband from which only the finding of the missing doll can save him. Rote is a predator, and his stalking of Susy becomes ever more obvious as the blind woman's predicament becomes ever more desperate. Written by Morganalee

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Taglines A blind woman plays a deadly game of survival See more »
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Also Known As
  • Seule dans la nuit (France)
  • Warte, bis es dunkel ist (Germany)
  • Sola en la oscuridad (Spain)
  • Perimene mehri na nyhtosei (Greece)
  • Várj, míg sötét lesz (Hungary)
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  • 108 min
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Budget $3,000,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia In an interview, Alan Arkin talked about the Oscar nominations he received for his early major film roles (The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966) and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)). When asked if he was surprised that he was overlooked for Wait Until Dark, his second movie, he replied: "You don't get nominated for being mean to Audrey Hepburn!" See more »
Goofs Susy demonstrates excellent hearing and observation skills: she can tell when people are in her apartment, notices Carlino dusting for prints, people fiddling with the blinds, Roat's squeaky shoes, etc. However, she does not appear to notice the rotary-dial mismatch between the telephone number Mike Tallman says he's calling and the number he actually dials. It's easy to tell what number is being dialed if you listen and count the number of clicks. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Terror in the Aisles (1984). See more »
Soundtracks Wait Until Dark See more »
Crazy Credits The end credits show each character with the performer's credit; Alan Arkin is shown three times, including once in each disguise. See more »
Quotes Susy Hendrix: Gloria?
Gloria: Yeah?
Susy Hendrix: How would you like to do something difficult and terribly dangerous?
Gloria: I'd love it!
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