{"id":37021,"date":"2024-10-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37021"},"modified":"2024-10-08T05:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T09:34:09","slug":"darker-than-amber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37021","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Darker Than Amber&#8221; (1970) starring Rod Taylor and William Smith \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z100824zview_darkerthanamber.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>Darker Than Amber<\/b><\/i><\/em> (1970)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Robert Clouse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>John D. MacDonald, Ed Waters <\/strong>based on<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3XYbTJH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DARKER THAN AMBER<\/a> by John D. MacDonald<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel<\/strong><strong>, Suzy Kendall, William Smith, Janet MacLachlan, Robert Phillips, James Booth <\/strong>and <strong>Jane Russell.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Travis McGee is having a conference with one of his clients. Business as usual.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Late one night Travis McGee (Taylor) and his buddy are quietly fishing under a bridge.\u00a0 Suddenly a woman is thrown off the bridge and quickly sinks below the water.\u00a0 McGee jumps in.\u00a0 He is shocked to find the woman&#8217;s hands and feet are bound.\u00a0 A dumbell tied to her ankles is pulling her down.\u00a0 McGee frees her and gets her to the surface.\u00a0 She&#8217;s in bad shape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">McGee takes her home.\u00a0 Her name is Vangie.\u00a0 She refuses to go to the police.\u00a0 McGee learns that Vangie was almost killed by cold-blooded body builder named Terry (Smith).\u00a0 Terry uses women to drug lonely men.\u00a0 Terry then robs and sometimes kills them.\u00a0 Vangie became a target when she discovered Terry was a killer.\u00a0 As the days pass, McGee and Vangie fall in love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite McGee&#8217;s objections Vangie heads to her apartment to get some things.\u00a0 Terry has been watching and kills her.<\/p>\n<p>McGee is going to get revenge even if it kills him.\u00a0 It just might.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The final extended fight scene is considered a brutal classic.\u00a0 Reportedly it was the reason that Bruce Lee wanted Robert Clause to direct <em>Enter the Dragon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Darker Than Amber<\/em> is the last time Jane Russell appeared in a feature film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Darker Than Amber<\/em> was scheduled to kick off a franchise.\u00a0 The plan was for Taylor to star in a series of Travis McGee films based on John D. MacDonald&#8217;s novels.\u00a0 Poor box office for this film killed the idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Filmed in 1970, the film is a product of it&#8217;s time.\u00a0 It probably felt hip and cool when it was released.\u00a0 Now it feels dated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>Darker Than Amber<\/b><\/i> (1970)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z100824zview_darkerthanamber2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darker Than Amber (1970) Director: Robert Clouse Screenplay: John D. MacDonald, Ed Waters based on DARKER THAN AMBER by John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37206,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37021\/revisions\/37206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}