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- R1970 · Mystery · 1h 37m
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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% 50+ Ratings Audience Score 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...
17 ★★★★★ ratings (3%) ★★★★★. Popular reviews. laird ★★★★ 4. 38 likes. Johnny81 3. A film that would have surely been even more obscure than it already is had it not gained notoriety for the real fight between Rod Taylor's Travis McGee and William Smith's Terry that closes the film.
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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.
Though it did not gross well in the box office, Darker than Amber earned many positive reviews. Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of a possible 4. He wrote that Taylor, somewhat playing against type by showing more warmth than his usual taciturn performances, was well-cast as McGee and that the plot managed to transcend standard detective ...
