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...works seems largely a matter of pacing and acting. The script, taken from Frederick Knott's most recent Broadway thriller, wouldn't be worth a damn if badly played. Although it is relentlessly logical, it starts from an incredible premise--that a blind housewife, alone and confronted by a maniac and two criminal associates, would engage them in a battle of wits instead of just dissolving...
...Broadway a couple of seasons ago, Wait Until Dark seemed like a wrong number for Playwright Frederick Knott, who once dialed M for Murder. The thriller's screen incarnation gives him a chance to call again. This time he gets through-with a better scenario, set and cast...
Other members of his executive committee include Walter Knott and Walt Disney, who built amusement empires in Orange County and now dabble in politics. John Wayne and Ray Bolger, looking considerably down-at-the-mouth since "Hondo" and "The Wizard of Oz" respectively, have also taken to the stump...
Frederick Knott, who also wrote Dial M for Murder, has left this plot-boiler perforated with illogic. At one point Lee Remick has located the doll, hidden it beyond likelihood of discovery, and decoyed the thugs out of the apartment. Instead of staying to be tortured or killed, she ought to call the police or flee. Playwright Knott seems to have forgotten that to scare a playgoer out of his senses, one must first satisfy his good sense...
...John Knott, senior resident of Comstock, commented yesterday that this indicates "a trend toward the Harvard system at Radcliffe." She also said that within the next few years it is possible that the other dorms will remain open, at no additional fee, during the spring recess...