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Sep 28, 1970 · Darker Than Amber: Directed by Robert Clouse. With Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall, Ahna Capri. Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell.
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- Action, Drama, Mystery
- Robert Clouse
- 1970-09-28
Darker Than Amber (1970) Rod Taylor plays Travis McGee in the only big-screen adaptation of one of John D. MacDonald's 21-book series about the boat-bum hero. Travis McGee is a Korean War veteran, a former college football player and a dropout from conventional society.
Travis McGee has twice been translated to cinema and television: Rod Taylor played McGee in Darker Than Amber (1970) and Sam Elliott played him in the television movie of The Empty Copper Sea, entitled Travis McGee (1983). The latter relocates McGee in California, eliminating the Florida locales central to the novels.
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Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Caribbean cruise to bring the killer to justice.
John McDonald's Travis McGee comes to life when one of his McGee novels Darker Than Amber comes to the big screen. Rod Taylor essays the role of the salvage beachcomber who does an occasional turn as a detective.
1 hr 36 min. 6.2 (568) Based on the 1966 novel of the same name by John D. MacDonald, Darker than Amber is a 1970 crime drama directed by Robert Clouse. The movie stars Rod Taylor as Travis McGee, a self-proclaimed "salvage consultant" who lives on a houseboat in Florida and takes on cases that usually involve retrieving lost or stolen items ...
Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Caribbean cruise to bring the killer to justice.
