Expert: Mel - 1/31/2008

Question
i had seen this movie a year back. it was a black n white old thriller. i had borrowed the vcd from tulsa library.
i want to know the name of this movie.. all i remember is the plot.
 a young couple is show. the lady is blind. her husband always encourages her to behave like a normal person and also trains her to be that way.
he goes out of town for some work. then  some thieves enter the house of this blind lady pretending to be her husbands old friend.
they try to fetch some diamond or something precious which is stuffed in a old teddy bear.
the entire thrill is to watch how this blind lady  confronts the thugs,,with some help of a little girl[ show with big spectacles] .
it was an awesome movie.
please can you tell me the name?
thank you.

Answer
Hello Nita,

I'm having a little trouble with this one, in as much as the story you have outlined is identical to the 1967 Audrey Hepburn film "Wait Until Dark". However, you stipulate that the film you saw was in black and white, and this one was definitely in colour.

Storyline: "Susie's husband, Sam, is asked to hold a doll for a woman as they get off an airplane. She then disappears. Mike and Carlino are small time crooks who find the woman's body in Susie's apartment, placed there by her partner, Harry Rote. Susie's blindness is the key to them searching the apartment for the doll that contains smuggled drugs. Mike pretends to be an old friend of Susie's husband while her husband is away on business and together the crooks invent a story of a police investigation of her husband that only the discovery of the now missing doll can save him from. Rote is a killer, and his stalking of Susie becomes more and more obvious as the story unfolds. Susie eventually catches on and, with the help of her young neighbour, Gloria, shows everyone that she is indeed a very capable lady."

I really cannot recall another film with this storyline that was shot in black and white. Perhaps, somehow you saw a black & white video of this film. Although, that would be quite unusual.


Glad to be of help. Cheers........Mel.