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DARKER THAN AMBER to be screened at Anthology Film Archives, NYC

posted 15 years ago by alanbobet
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For those of you in the New York area who are fans of Robert Clouse's cult film DARKER THAN AMBER, a rare print of this 1970 detective thriller starring Rod Taylor, William Smith, Suzy Kendall and Jane Russell will be screened for only one time at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City on Friday, August 14, 2009 at 9:45 PM. Famous exploitation film director and owner of the DVD company Blue Underground. William Lustig(MANIAC, VIGILANTE, MANIAC COP) will present and introduce the film at the screening and I heard that the rare copy of the film obtained for this one time screening, was lent by the private film collection of Roy Frumpkes. director of STREET TRASH & DOCUMENT OF THE DEAD. For more information about this screening, go to their website, www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

[–] Bobby_Dupea 13 years ago

There is a sh!tty uncensored copy floating around with Dutch subtitles. It's intact but the picture is pretty bad.

Would really have liked Bill Lustig and Blue Underground to have released this. Unfortunately it just isn't gory and violent enough for them, yet at the same time there's just enough in there (in the fight scenes) that only censored copies have shown up occasionally on the internet. The result is that it falls into a sort of re-release limbo.

This film also gave Robert Clouse the opportunity to make ENTER THE DRAGON three years later.

[–] mikeos3 9 years ago

danish subs actually, but you're right about the (lack of) quality.

[–] TheHungryAndAngryShow 11 years ago

Roy Frumkes just showed this again on 16mm at Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn, from the same rare print he has. He sat behind me and my girlfriend and we chatted about various things, including this movie, Dawn Of The Dead, Street Trash, and possible youtube episodes of Swirlee, which, if you have no clue what that is, please go look at the page here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320555/reference

I was lucky enough to see this when he showed Street Trash at Nitehawk Theater last year, and it was amazing. All in all he's a great guy and it was fun to see a film like this on 16mm.

[–] liscarkat (16625) 2 years ago

Right now (2022) there's a poor-quality copy on YouTube, but it's better than nothing. "Darker Than Amber" should get a quality Blu-Ray release.