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Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Wait Until Dark |
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A group of criminals are looking for a doll with heroin inside. The doll ends up at a blind woman's house. The criminals head to the blind woman's house to try to retrieve it, but they find this difficult because she is smart. She then tries to overcome her disability and outsmart her attackers.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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Susy Hendrix is a blind woman whose husbad accidentally get mixed up in drug trafficking by a now dead woman named Lisa. Lisa gives Sam Hendrix a heroine stuffed musical doll. Lisa's two ex loves and a man who calls himself Roat Jr. and Sr. plan to con Susy out of the doll. They do not expect a blind woman to ever be a smart as Susy is... Roat decives his co-conners and nearly kills Susy, too, but Susy is the "World's Champion Blind Woman".
--Jessica Kelley, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Wait Until Dark |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- catching/stopping killer
Criminal enemy is...
- drug dealers
If this is a criminal POV story...
- Armed robbery!
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/butch/lez (woman)
Body type
- skinny (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- run over
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- None
- Occasional swearing
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
Is this movie based on a
- play
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