Pocket Money
1972
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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.
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...
58% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 44% Audience Score 500+ Ratings British secret agent Joseph Reardon (Paul Newman) poses as a convicted jewel thief to infiltrate a secret organization and gather ...
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- John Huston
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- Paul Newman
The legendary John Huston directs this engaging thriller starring the iconic actor Paul Newman. Newman is aces as a more antiheroic character than one might expect. Rearden (Newman) is a man hired by Mr. MacKintosh (Harry Andrews) to steal diamonds being sent through the mail.
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 classic but tells an interesting story with a sure sense of atmosphere, location...
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.
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.
