Wait Until Dark is a play by Frederick Knott, first performed on Broadway in 1966 and often revived since then. A film adaptation was released in 1967, and the play was published in the same year. Susy Hendrix is a blind Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three con-men searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband Sam unwittingly transported from Canada as a favor to a woman who has since been murdered. "Roat" leads his companions into thinking that they are going to be rich and will get the heroin soon enough, but in the end he murders all of his partners after they outlive their usefulness.
Adaptations (1)
Wait Until Dark was adapted into a 1967 film.
Wait Until Dark1967 · film · 108 min · dir. Terence Young · IMDb ↗After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
