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Sep 28, 1970 · 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. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Caribbean cruise to bring the killer to justice.
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- Action, Drama, Mystery
- Robert Clouse
- 1970-09-28
The film starred Rod Taylor as Travis McGee, the protagonist of a series of successful novels by MacDonald. Darker than Amber and The Empty Copper Sea (adapted as the 1983 film Travis McGee starring Sam Elliott ) remain the only McGee novels adapted to the big screen to date.
- Jack Reeves (executive producer), Walter Seltzer (producer)
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.
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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.
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.
is some of the clunky dialogue in Robert Clouse's cinematic venture for pulp author John D. McDonald's beach bum/salvage seller Travis McGee, here played by an aged-to-granite Rod Taylor, more befitting a suit during the cruise ship second half than bulky shirtless on his own boat... a balmy Florida Keys Neo Noir during an intriguing set-up when...
The hit-and-run murder of Vangie, sets McGee off on a revenge mission that culminates in a legendary graphically violent, savage, fight scene, between Rod Taylor's Travis McGee and the film's villain, Terry.
