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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. 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 ...
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.
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- Thriller
- John Huston
- 1973-11-08
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. Only the agent's ...
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.
The Mackintosh Man. 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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- John Huston
- PG
- Paul Newman
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.
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