Wait Until Dark - what a great thriller!

Thanks to my random movie-picking from the public library, I just had a chance to watch the 1967 thriller "Wait until Dark"!! Oh my god.. what a great movie that was!! Screenplay and Audrey Hepburn's acting was totally awesome... and it left me with that rare but good feeling of watching a nice movie...

And I was also greatly impressed by the villain, Alan Arkin, sporting those circular glasses like what tamil actor Sathyaraj used to wear as a villain. may be they got the idea from this movie :-) All through the movie I was thinking that I had seen him somewhere but could not recollect where... and Voila.. in imdb, I find that he is that Oscar winning 'Grandpa' from Little Miss Sunshine! hmmm, I was not sure if that was really why I felt like I had seen him before... really good acting by him - may be the Oscar for L.M.Sunshine was a compensation for missing out in some earlier good movie like this one! When Alan Arkin was asked if he were surprised that he was overlooked for "Wait Until Dark", his second movie, it seems he replied: "You don't get nominated for being mean to Audrey Hepburn!"

And from the then movie trailer, it seems that the theaters darkened all their lights "to the legal limit" during the last twelve minutes of the film, each light going out as Audrey Hepburn smashed each light bulb. The one remaining light in the theaters would be switched off as the last light source in the film went out!