. . . WAIT UNTIL DARK. You know, the suspense/thriller with Audrey Hepburn, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jack Weston, Richard Crenna (remember Dr. Kildaire? What do you get when you combine Kildaire and Ben Casey? A Pair-a-docs! [Alan Sherman]) and the great Alan Arkin.
Wonderful film. Very suspenseful. Efrem Zimbalist's and Audrey Hepburn's characters are a couple, she who has recently become blind and he, a photographer who is going to great pains to help her adjust to her new, much darker (visually) world. In his efforts (which resemble those of parents attempting to lure their youngsters from moaning, pointing and shaking heads to speaking as a form of communication) to teach her to be independent by not jumping to assist, fetch or otherwise cater to her newly acquired handicap, he sounds as if he is training a dog. "You can do it. Over there. To your left. You can find it."
It's all well and good during the expositional sequences of the film. But after poor Audrey's character suffers the deceitful antics of the 'bad guys' pouring on the the insinuations of infidelity and dishonesty on the part of her dear (dog-trainer) Zimbalist, Arkin has a final, intense scene where he is out-done by the heroine. She ends up, upon the arrival of her heretofore, otherwise engaged-in-business husband, crouched, sniveling behind the open refrigerator door while her antagonist lay bleeding on the floor after her stabbing him after his final, desperate attempt to kill her. And when her 'dearest' arrives and at first thinks she has either fled the scene or is lying dead somewhere, unseen within the apartment, she emerges, ex-refrigerator, and he in his blessed relief and undying gratitude for her unexpected and miraculous safety, says something to the effect of, ". . . over here. You can do it. I'm over here. C'mon over here. I know you can." [paraphrasing, of course]
Somehow, the conclusion of this edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller was rendered comic to me as a result of Efrem Zimbalist's character being so narrowly dogged-cum-insensitive to what must have transpired during his absence, in his single-minded insistence to 'train' Audrey to cope with the world in her still-uncomfortable blindness instead of simply running to her IMMEDIATELY to comfort her and express his happiness for her deliverance from this horrible situation.
I laughed for half an hour! [My wife said, "I'm going to bed."]
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