Wait Until Dark

1967 108 min Thriller, Horror

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.

budget $4,000,000 earnings $11,000,000 return 2.8x

director Terence Young

writers Jane-Howard Hammerstein, Robert Carrington, Frederick Knott