The MacKintosh Man (1973)

Director:

John Huston

Writers:

Walter Hill (screenplay)
Desmond Bagley (novel)

Release Date:

25 July 1973 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

Only Mackintosh can save them now - And Mackintosh is dead!

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Traitor | Spy | Ireland | Malta | Spy Ring

Cast

Paul Newman	...	Rearden
Dominique Sanda	...	Mrs. Smith
James Mason	...	Sir George Wheeler
Harry Andrews	...	Mackintosh
Ian Bannen	...	Slade
Michael Hordern	...	Brown
Nigel Patrick	...	Soames-Trevelyan
Peter Vaughan	...	Brunskill
Roland Culver	...	Judge
Percy Herbert	...	Taafe
Robert Lang	...	Jack Summers
Jenny Runacre	...	Gerda
John Bindon	...	Buster
Hugh Manning	...	Prosecutor
Wolfe Morris	...	Malta Police Commissioner

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | UK:15 (video rating) (1988) | UK:AA (cut) (theatrical rating) (1973) | Canada:14A (video rating) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | West Germany:16 | Canada:PG

Filming Locations:

County Galway, Ireland

Company:

Newman-Foreman Company

Trivia:

The last film of Noel Purcell.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in the side window of the truck when Rearden drives off to meet the airplane at the airfield.

Quotes:

Buster: [offering Reardon a cigarette from his mouth in the prison yard] Here you are.
Buster: [Reardon hesitates] Take it. I've only got syph.
Joseph Rearden: What're you in for?
Buster: Mopery.
Buster: [Reardon turns around] Exposing yourself to a blind woman.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Poliziotto senza paura (1977)

The Mackintosh Man

A British secret agent is sent to prison to track down a dangerous spy through an escaping prisoner.

Elaborately plotted, often confusing, but also good-looking and entertaining Cold War mystifier with briskly running sequences and neat performances all round.