Review of Wait Until Dark

In this classic movie, the elegant Audrey Hepburn is a young blind woman, left alone by her husband in their apartment. That would be okay, except thugs have an idea that some heroin is hidden in a doll in the apartment. So naturally said thugs spend the day trying to get into the apartment and find the doll. Hepburn plays the scared damsel-in-distress well, and she doesn't play her like a completely helpless fool, either. There are plenty of scenes that are relatively quiet, as the bad guys try to move around the apartment without Hepburn hearing them. The script keeps things moving along (not always easy when almost the entire movie takes place in the apartment), as the crooks try all sorts of means to get inside and get to the doll. How well they succeed more or less dictates how good the movie is, too: As they go, so goes the film.