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Oh, the lights were totally out.
Yay!
Wait Until Dark is one of my favorite films to show to a newbie. If you try and describe it to someone who isn't an Audrey Hepburn fan or (worse yet), someone who doesn't like to watch "old films," they'll shrug it off as a lame sounding film. But that ending sequence gets them every time.
According to IMDb trivia, that was one of the first movies to pull the villain-isn't-really-dead trick. But I didn't expect it!
That's the movie java and I saw at the Paramount with the (grown-up) little girl in the theater with us.
How cool!
Audrey Hepburn usually isn't my cup of tea. But Wait Until Dark is phenomenal. Maybe not High Art, but a movie that decides what it wants to do and more than succeeds.
I thought it was a little slow for a while, and sometimes the acting was a little campy and old-school, but otherwise, it was very well done. Alan Arkin was super creepy; although I found his performance a bit exaggerated (hoooooow sliiiiiimy can I beeeeee?), it was also understated enough that he was scary.
I tend to not liking old movies, esp. ones that so much resemble a filmed stage production, but between a pushy TiVo, recs here, and my DH's Audrey Hepburn crush, I watched it a few years ago, and yes, all sorts of praise for it.
Alan Arkin was super creepy; although I found his performance a bit exaggerated (hoooooow sliiiiiimy can I beeeeee?), it was also understated enough that he was scary.
Harry Roate, Jr. from Scarsdale. One of the greatest villains, evah. And such an amazing anomaly of a role for Arkin.
My first two experiences of Alan Arkin were in Wait Until Dark, and The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming!
Wholehearted and undying love for the man ever since, I don't care what kind of stinker he's in. The love kind of rubbed off on Adam, too.
I watched The Apartment last night (won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1960). Interesting movie, reminded me that I really need to watch Mad Men sometime.