Wait Until Dark

Wait Until Dark (1967)

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Continuity mistake: There's a scene where Audrey Hepburn's husband Sam is leaving their apartment. Standing on the pavement outside he hails a cab, which pulls up through a (quite sizeable) puddle, splashing him with water. Opposite him on the other side of the road are parked two cars and the villains' Volkswagen van. There's a quick cut-away exchange of "pleasantries" between Sam and the cabby before it drives off. The next shot has the villain (Richard Crenna) emerging from the van, crossing the street, and making for the door to their apartment, only all of a sudden the puddle has disappeared, as have the two cars which were parked behind the Volkswagen van.

Audio problem: When Mike and Carlino enter Susy's apartment for the first time, Carlino descends the stairs after Mike and says, "What are you calling for? She's not here," but his mouth does not move. Slightly harder to tell due to the lighting, but when Mike calls out "Lisa?" a few seconds before, his mouth also appears to not move. (00:07:20)

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Continuity mistake: Audrey Hepburn's hair changes in the last scene. For the whole movie it is straight with side-swept bangs, except for the last scene when she emerges from behind the refrigerator and embraces her husband she has straight bangs and curls on top of her head.

Plot hole: The neighbor girl, using a pre-arranged code, rings Audrey Hepburn's apartment twice when Richard Crenna leaves the phone booth across the street. Hepburn thinks she now knows that Crenna is mixed up with Alan Arkin's strange mix of strange friends who have come to get back the long missing heroin-filled doll. However, anybody could have been coming out of the phone booth. It strains logic that Suzy would make that deduction. (01:25:00 - 01:31:00)

Factual error: When Susy reads the phone number in Braille, what is written on the paper is gibberish. Not only is it not a number, it says "shchsting."

Roat: I cannot negotiate in an atmosphere of mistrust.

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