scottinnj
06-03-2008, 07:41 PM
LOS ANGELES (June 3) - A family spokesman says actor-director-producer Mel Ferrer, who starred in scores of movies and directed his late wife, Audrey Hepburn in numerous others, has died at age 90. (http://news.aol.com/entertainment/movies/movie-news-story/ar/_a/actor-director-mel-ferrer-dies-at-age-90/20080603174909990001)
In 1967, he produced the film classic "Wait Until Dark," a terrifying thriller in which Hepburn played a blind woman terrorized in her apartment by drug dealers
Wait Until Dark was my first "scary" movie I ever saw. And let me tell you, Alan Arkin as "Roat" has got to be the most horrifying bad guy I have ever seen. Creepy when he had to be, and ruthless when push came to shove. He carried a stilletto knife in the movie that looked like a small buddha or statue or something. But this giant blade would slide out from inside it when he hit the trigger, and when he wielded it, Roat would become more evil and sadistic then any slasher bad guy could ever hope to be.
Ferrer also starred in "War and Peace" another great movie I like to watch again from time to time.
http://www.geocities.com/worldcinema/gorguys/images/ferrer.jpg
In 1967, he produced the film classic "Wait Until Dark," a terrifying thriller in which Hepburn played a blind woman terrorized in her apartment by drug dealers
Wait Until Dark was my first "scary" movie I ever saw. And let me tell you, Alan Arkin as "Roat" has got to be the most horrifying bad guy I have ever seen. Creepy when he had to be, and ruthless when push came to shove. He carried a stilletto knife in the movie that looked like a small buddha or statue or something. But this giant blade would slide out from inside it when he hit the trigger, and when he wielded it, Roat would become more evil and sadistic then any slasher bad guy could ever hope to be.
Ferrer also starred in "War and Peace" another great movie I like to watch again from time to time.
http://www.geocities.com/worldcinema/gorguys/images/ferrer.jpg