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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. [5] Paul Newman stars as Joseph Rearden, a jewel thief-turned-intelligence operative, sent to infiltrate a Soviet spy ring in England, by helping one of their agents break ...
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. Action. 98 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1973. Roger Ebert. August 15, 1973. 3 min read. 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 leader, Sir...
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Sep 8, 2018 · The Mackintosh Man, is the American republication title of Bagley’s 1971 novel The Freedom Trap. Perhaps better known under its American title it is Bagley’s tale of a clever scheme to expose a criminal and political railroad for smuggling men out of Britain.
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.
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...
The MacKintosh Man. Directed by John Huston. 1973 1h 39m PG. Thriller. 6.358%44%. Add to Watchlist. In "The MacKintosh Man," Paul Newman’s Joseph Rearden, a framed thief, seizes a daring escape from a secret prison. Joined by a mysterious spy, he navigates a web of deception and danger across Ireland and Malta, unraveling a high-stakes ...
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.
A British intelligence officer, posing as a diamond thief, is sent to jail for 20 years to catch a gang that has been arranging escapes from prison for wealthy criminals.
