Fear Is the Key (film)
1972
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But now comes "Darker Than Amber" with Rod Taylor playing Travis McGee, and it's a surprisingly good movie. For reasons that escape me, Taylor is usually cast as a taciturn, poker-faced strongman whose big acting task is to look calm behind a machine-gun.
I saw Darker Than Amber 34 years ago, and it made an indelible impression on me. Perhaps it was because the realistic fast paced action and suspense, which is commonplace today, was a breakthrough at the time. I would compare it with some of the action scenes in Steve McQueen's Bullitt.
Reviews 50% Audience Score 50+ Ratings A private eye (Rod Taylor) and his buddy (Theodore Bikel) bait killer crooks with a woman (Suzy Kendall) who looks like one of their victims.
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- Robert Clouse
- PG
- Rod Taylor, Suzy Kendall, Theodore Bikel
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Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Tony Mastroianni Cleveland Press. Darker Than Amber had some of the ingredients of a pretty fair movie going in. A bad job of mixing and a few...
Popular reviews. More. laird ★★★★ 4. Sometimes with sex and violence, less can be more. An extreme close-up of a zipper being slowly undone, the woman's hand joining the man's to pop it out of the last segment is far more erotic and suggestive of something abstractly filthy than most hairy bobbing man-ass sex scenes of the 70s.
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- Robert Clouse
by John D. MacDonald ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 9, 1970. Travis McGee is the single successor to Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and in some ten paperback appearances has acquired an open-end following. This is one of his earlier cases in which he retrieves a creamy Eurasian girl with amber eyes thrown off a bridge.
Sep 28, 1970 · 34 User reviews. 12 Critic reviews. Photos 25. Top cast. Edit. Rod Taylor. Travis McGee. Theodore Bikel.
