The MacKintosh Man (1973)
Only MacKintosh can save them now - and MacKintosh is dead!
Director: John Huston · Writers: Walter Hill, William Fairchild, Gerald Hanley, Gladys Hill
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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Director
John Huston
Cast
Paul Newman
Joseph Rearden 
Dominique Sanda
Mrs. Smith 
James Mason
Sir George Wheeler 
Harry Andrews
Mackintosh 
Ian Bannen
Ronald Slade 
Michael Hordern
Brown 
Nigel Patrick
Soames-Trevelyan 
Peter Vaughan
Inspector Brunskill 
Roland Culver
The Judge 
Percy Herbert
Taafe 
Robert Lang
Jack Summers 
Jenny Runacre
Gerda User Reviews (1)
Spy Vs Spy. The Mackintosh Man is directed by John Huston and adapted to screenplay by Walter Hill and William Fairchild from The Freedom Trap written by Desmond Bagley. It stars Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, Ian Bannen, James Mason, Michael Horden and Harry Andrews. Music is by Maurice Jarre and cinematography by Oswald Morris. Spy shenanigans unbound as Newman plays Joseph Rearden, a hired agent for the British Intelligence who pulls a job on the orders of The Mackintosh Man (Andrews), and finds himself sent to prison for 20 years. But this is all part of a greater plan… A well performed and serviceable drama, if a bit of a let down come the final third. The most fun and intrigue comes about once Rearden enters prison and the initial part of plotting once he is broken out, then it sort of loses its way, trying to make a simple story more intricate than it is. There’s goo…
