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The Mackintosh Man is a 1973 Cold War spy film directed by John Huston from a screenplay by Walter Hill, based on the novel The Freedom Trap by English author Desmond Bagley.
Nov 8, 1973 · The MacKintosh Man: Directed by John Huston. With Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews. 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.
John Huston’s “The Mackintosh Man” is perhaps the first anti-spy movie, in the sense that there have already been anti-Westerns and anti-gangster movies. But it isn’t anti in the same spirit.
British secret agent Joseph Reardon (Paul Newman) poses as a convicted jewel thief to infiltrate a secret organization and gather information on the group's...
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British Agent Joseph Rearden (Paul Newman) is recruited by spymaster Angus Mackintosh (Harry Andrews) to impersonate an Australian criminal and infiltrate a mysterious spy ring in an operation so covert that no one but Mackintosh and his secretary, Mrs. Smith (Dominique Sanda), know the truth.
Nov 9, 2017 · Mackintosh Man, The - (Original Trailer) A British agent goes undercover as a jewel thief to nab a Communist spy in John Huston's The Mackintosh Man (1973) starring Paul Newman.
Jul 25, 2018 · The Mackintosh Man, produced by John Foreman and directed by John Huston, is a good genre film in the ice cold vein of The Maltese Falcon. It isn’t nearly as rich nor fine as that early Huston ...