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* FreakOut: Susy has a brief one after [[spoiler: she discovers that her phone line got cut.]] She breaks a lamp in frustration, [[spoiler: which gives her the idea to do the same to all the lights]].
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* AnkleDrag: Happens when psychotic Roat leaps and grabs Susy's ankle as she tries to get out of her home.
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* DisabilitySuperpower [[spoiler: Lampshaded, really. Roat wears two elaborate disguises to pretend he is two different people, for no apparent reason, other than that's what he does when he pulls the con on other people, or maybe just for the benefit of the girl who also lives in the building. Since Susy can't see the disguises, there's really no point in wearing them, and in fact, she recognizes that he is the same person, because she isn't distracted by them.]]
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* DisabilitySuperpower DisabilitySuperpower: [[spoiler: Lampshaded, really. Roat wears two elaborate disguises to pretend he is two different people, for no apparent reason, other than that's what he does when he pulls the con on other people, or maybe just for the benefit of the girl who also lives in the building. Since Susy can't see the disguises, there's really no point in wearing them, and in fact, she recognizes that he is the same person, because she isn't distracted by them.]]
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* ILied: Roat promises not to hurt Susy if she gives up the doll. After she does, he marches her into the bedroom for murder [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil or worse]]. She says he promised not to hurt her, and he parries with "Did I?? I must have had my fingers crossed."
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* TheGhost: Lisa in the play. The closest we ever get is an offstage but frequently discussed dead body, hidden in Susy and Sam's closet. Averted in the film, where she appears onscreen.
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* JumpScare: [[spoiler: [[http://youtu.be/8JARcRxJzsQ Roat comes out of nowhere]] to [[AnkleDrg [[AnkleDrag grab Susy by the ankle]].]]
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* PlotTailoredToTheParty: the climax of the film involves [[spoiler:Susy breaking all the lamps in the apartment so that the thugs can't find her. Her plan is thwarted when Roat finds the refrigerator]].
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* PlotTailoredToTheParty: the The climax of the film involves [[spoiler:Susy breaking all the lamps in the apartment so that the thugs can't find her. Her plan is thwarted when Roat finds the refrigerator]].
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* ASimplePlan: The con men try to scam Susy into revealing where the doll went, by posing as cops and trying to hint that Suzy's husband was having an affair with a murdered woman. For a blind woman, Susy quickly senses things are amiss - she can tell one "cop" is wiping away evidence - and it drives the sociopathic Roat into an [[KillEmAll even simpler plan]]...
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* ASimplePlan: The con men try to scam Susy into revealing where the doll went, by posing as cops and trying to hint that Suzy's Susy's husband was having an affair with a murdered woman. For a blind woman, Susy quickly senses things are amiss - she can tell one "cop" is wiping away evidence - and it drives the sociopathic Roat into an [[KillEmAll even simpler plan]]...
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: when Roat figures the other two con men are no longer needed, and convinced (rightly) that his "partners" are turning on him...
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: when When Roat figures the other two con men are no longer needed, and convinced (rightly) that his "partners" are turning on him...
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* InLoveWithTheMark: Subtle. When Susy touched Mike's face to "read" him there was something in the way that he was looking at her that seemed like he had fallen for her. Leads to a HeelFaceDoorSlam for Mike.
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* NotQuiteDead: Roat comes jumping at Susy after being stabbed down by her in the previous scene.
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* AntiVillain: Talman. He's just trying to pay off his debt to a loan shark, and does everything he can to avoid actually hurting Susy. He ends up [[spoiler:leaving of his own accord after he decides Susy is a WorthyOpponent, and promises he and Carlino will never bother her again, assuring her that Roat is dead, having previously agreed that Carlino would kill him. Unfortunately, he's wrong -- Roat killed Carlino before Carlino got the chance, and promptly kills Mike, too.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: It's hard to call Talman and Carlino "evil", but they're still criminals -- and they're both disgusted by Mr. Roat.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Talman. He stops the con on Susy, promising to leave her and Sam alone and that she's safe... and is promptly killed.]]
* LittleMissSnarker: Gloria, who's quite sarcastic.
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* NoNameGiven: Roat, Mike, and Carlino are all made-up aliases assigned by Roat. The script simply calls them by those names because they have to call them ''something''.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Heavily implied. The script makes a note of Gloria and Roat staring at each other at one point -- Gloria, because she's seen Roat before in a different disguise and is realizing it, while Roat looks at her like a bug he wants to crush. It's almost certain that he would've killed her, had he gotten the chance.
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* PeekABooCorpse: When they are first searching the apartment, Roat tells Talman to check the closet. He opens it and is startled to find the corpse of the sexy woman who was carrying the doll, in a plastic bag hanging from a hook.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: The climax, in which Susy is left alone in her apartment with the murderous Roat.
* AnkleDrag: Happens when psychotic Roat leaps and grabs Susy's ankle as she tries to get out of her home.
* AnkleDrag: Happens when psychotic Roat leaps and grabs Susy's ankle as she tries to get out of her home.
* DarknessEqualsDeath: Beautifully subverted. Susy knocks out all the lights to give herself the advantage over her attacker.
** Too bad she forgot one. [[spoiler: You probably would, too. In the refrigerator. She thankfully does manage to unplug it at the last second, and darkness equals her attacker's death instead of her own.]]
** Too bad she forgot one. [[spoiler: You probably would, too. In the refrigerator. She thankfully does manage to unplug it at the last second, and darkness equals her attacker's death instead of her own.]]
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* ProtectThisHouseProtectThisHouse: A group of burglars resort to increasingly desperate means to get a poor blind housewife to give up a heroin-laden doll that was mistakenly delivered to her house.
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** In the film, Gloria makes sure to mention that a knife is among the objects that she flung to the floor during a temper tantrum. That's the knife that Susy eventually uses on Roat.
*TheConTheCon: Talman makes himself out to be a friend of Susy's husband. Carlino pretends that he's a cop investigating the murder of the lady who gave Mr. Hendrix the doll. Then Roat pretends to be two different people in order to trick Susy into thinking that her husband has been implicated in the murder, and that she has to find the doll to clear him.
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** Susy's ears are also sharp enough for her to pick up that Carlino is "dusting" her apartment for no particular reason (he's really wiping prints), and to notice that her visitors keep fidding with the blinds even though it's nighttime (they're signaling to each other).
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TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: This happens around the time that Susy manages to splash Roat with the gasoline and then grabs matches.
* ILied: Roat promises not to hurt Susy if she gives up the doll. After she does, he marches her into the bedroom for murder. She says he promised not to hurt her, and he parries with "Did I?? I must have had my fingers crossed."
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'''''Wait Until Dark''''' is a mystery/thriller play by Frederick Knott. The heroine is recently blind Susy Hendrix, a Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three thugs searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband transported from Canada as a favor to a woman who since has been murdered. The trio tries to convince Susy her spouse has been implicated in the crime and the only way to protect him is to surrender the doll. More murder and mayhem ensue when she refuses. It was originally produced on Broadway in 1966, and made into [[TheMovie a film]] the next year starring Creator/AudreyHepburn and Creator/AlanArkin.
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* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The safe. For all it's brought up, it has very little importance later.]]
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* ParentalSubstitute: Sam for Gloria. Eventually, Susy is, too.
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** "Hey... no see, no tell." ([[spoiler:Mike Talman]])
** "I'll help you, Susy!" ([[spoiler:Mr. Roat]])
** "Hey... no see, no tell." ([[spoiler:Mike Talman]])
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* {{Meganekko}}: Gloria, much to her displeasure.
* NoNameGiven: Roat, Mike, and Carlino are all made-up aliases assigned by Roat. The script simply calls them by those names because they have to call them ''something''.
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* ActionSurvivor: Susy at the end. She's a nice, unassuming lady who gets dragged into a situation with her life at risk by three conmen against her will. [[spoiler:She manages to beat her opponent, killing him before he can kill her, but it's a close, close thing.]]
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* HandicappedBadass: Susy, a blind woman who [[spoiler:managed to take advantage of the fact that she is ''used'' to not being able to see, while Roat is not, and smash out all the lights and cover the floor in gasoline, guaranteeing he can't see a thing. The only thing she didn't think of was the light in the refrigerator, and while it comes close, she still manages to kill Roat in the end.]]
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It was revived on Broadway in 1998 with a cast that included Marisa Tomei as Susy, Creator/QuentinTarantino as Roat, and Stephen Lang of {{Avatar}} fame as Mike Talman.
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It was revived on Broadway in 1998 with a cast that included Marisa Tomei as Susy, Creator/QuentinTarantino as Roat, and Stephen Lang of {{Avatar}} fame as Mike Talman.
Another revival in October of 2013 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles moved the setting back to 1944, giving it a distinctly FilmNoir flavor among other changes.
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'''''Wait Until Dark''''' is a mystery/thriller play by Frederick Knott. The heroine is recently blind Susy Hendrix, a Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three thugs searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband transported from Canada as a favor to a woman who since has been murdered. The trio tries to convince Susy her spouse has been implicated in the crime and the only way to protect him is to surrender the doll. More murder and mayhem ensue when she refuses. It was originally produced on Broadway in 1966, and made into [[TheMovie a film]] the next year starring Creator/AudreyHepburn and Creator/AlanArkin.
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!!''Wait Until Dark'' provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Talman and Carlino.
* AntiVillain: Talman.
* AxCrazy: Roat.
* TheCon
* ConMan: Roat, Talman, and Carlino
* DisabilitySuperpower [[spoiler: lampshaded, really. Roat wears two elaborate disguises to pretend he is two different people, for no apparent reason, other than that's what he does when he pulls the con on other people, or maybe just for the benefit of the girl who also lives in the building. Since Susy can't see the disguises, there's really no point in wearing them, and in fact, she recognizes that he is the same person, because she isn't distracted by them.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Roat.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are many: the icebox, which plays an unusually important role for an icebox, and is mentioned in several different contexts, early in the movie, and Susy's lines "I don't want Gloria today, I don't need her"; "What if I get [killed] as a poor, defenseless blind lady whose husband is off in Asbury Park?" "Do I have to be the world's champion blind lady? [her husband says "Yes!"] then I will"; and "I wish I could do...important things," followed by a list of things she wishes she could do, that are not very important compared to [[spoiler: saving her own life, and ridding the world of an evil criminal at the same time]].
* GenreBlind: Ironically, not Susy.
* TheGhost: Lisa.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[Franchise/{{Rambo}} Richard Crenna's]] character seems to be doing this [[spoiler:Before Roat kills him, turning it into a HeelFaceDoorSlam.]]
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted
* ILied: "Did I?? I must have had my fingers crossed."
* JumpScare: [[spoiler: [[http://youtu.be/8JARcRxJzsQ Roat comes out of nowhere]] to grab Susy by the ankle.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: Susy [[spoiler:turning out the lights to turn the tables on Roat.]]
* TheMark: Susy.
* PlotTailoredToTheParty: the climax of the film involves [[spoiler:Susy breaking all the lamps in the apartment so that the thugs can't find her. Her plan is thwarted when Roat finds the refrigerator.]]
* ProtectThisHouse
* PunchClockVillain: Talman and Carlino.
* ScareChord: Oh boy!
** The film's music score, incidentally, was written by Music/HenryMancini.
* ASimplePlan: The con men try to scam Susy into revealing where the doll went, by posing as cops and trying to hint that Suzy's husband was having an affair with a murdered woman. For a blind woman, Susy quickly senses things are amiss - she can tell one "cop" is wiping away evidence - and it drives the sociopathic Roat into an [[KillEmAll even simpler plan]]...
* SinisterShades: Donned by Roat for much of the film.
* StepIntoTheBlindingFight: In the climax a blind woman battles against a killer in her apartment; she destroys all the lamps so he is disoriented but she can react just fine.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The three cons aren't entirely trusting each other. Roat has to trick them into helping him scam Susy to find out [[spoiler:where the doll filled with heroin got to]].
* TheSpook: Roat (which is not his real name).
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: when Roat figures the other two con men are no longer needed, and convinced (rightly) that his "partners" are turning on him...
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!!''Wait Until Dark'' provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Talman and Carlino.
* AntiVillain: Talman.
* AxCrazy: Roat.
* TheCon
* ConMan: Roat, Talman, and Carlino
* DisabilitySuperpower [[spoiler: lampshaded, really. Roat wears two elaborate disguises to pretend he is two different people, for no apparent reason, other than that's what he does when he pulls the con on other people, or maybe just for the benefit of the girl who also lives in the building. Since Susy can't see the disguises, there's really no point in wearing them, and in fact, she recognizes that he is the same person, because she isn't distracted by them.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Roat.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are many: the icebox, which plays an unusually important role for an icebox, and is mentioned in several different contexts, early in the movie, and Susy's lines "I don't want Gloria today, I don't need her"; "What if I get [killed] as a poor, defenseless blind lady whose husband is off in Asbury Park?" "Do I have to be the world's champion blind lady? [her husband says "Yes!"] then I will"; and "I wish I could do...important things," followed by a list of things she wishes she could do, that are not very important compared to [[spoiler: saving her own life, and ridding the world of an evil criminal at the same time]].
* GenreBlind: Ironically, not Susy.
* TheGhost: Lisa.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[Franchise/{{Rambo}} Richard Crenna's]] character seems to be doing this [[spoiler:Before Roat kills him, turning it into a HeelFaceDoorSlam.]]
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted
* ILied: "Did I?? I must have had my fingers crossed."
* JumpScare: [[spoiler: [[http://youtu.be/8JARcRxJzsQ Roat comes out of nowhere]] to grab Susy by the ankle.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: Susy [[spoiler:turning out the lights to turn the tables on Roat.]]
* TheMark: Susy.
* PlotTailoredToTheParty: the climax of the film involves [[spoiler:Susy breaking all the lamps in the apartment so that the thugs can't find her. Her plan is thwarted when Roat finds the refrigerator.]]
* ProtectThisHouse
* PunchClockVillain: Talman and Carlino.
* ScareChord: Oh boy!
** The film's music score, incidentally, was written by Music/HenryMancini.
* ASimplePlan: The con men try to scam Susy into revealing where the doll went, by posing as cops and trying to hint that Suzy's husband was having an affair with a murdered woman. For a blind woman, Susy quickly senses things are amiss - she can tell one "cop" is wiping away evidence - and it drives the sociopathic Roat into an [[KillEmAll even simpler plan]]...
* SinisterShades: Donned by Roat for much of the film.
* StepIntoTheBlindingFight: In the climax a blind woman battles against a killer in her apartment; she destroys all the lamps so he is disoriented but she can react just fine.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The three cons aren't entirely trusting each other. Roat has to trick them into helping him scam Susy to find out [[spoiler:where the doll filled with heroin got to]].
* TheSpook: Roat (which is not his real name).
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: when Roat figures the other two con men are no longer needed, and convinced (rightly) that his "partners" are turning on him...
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