The Mackintosh Man
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11288
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The Mackintosh Man (1973)
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Only Mackintosh can save them now - And Mackintosh is dead!
John Huston directed this cold war spy thriller (from a script by Walter Hill) concerning a British agent trying infiltrate the organization of a nefarious communist spy. Paul Newman is Joseph Reardon, a British secret agent commissioned by Mackintosh (Harry Andrews) to impersonate a jewel thief. When the police are tipped off about his diamond robbery, Reardon is arrested and shipped off to a high-security prison. At the prison, he meets a convicted Russian spy and the two are involved in a prison break, arranged by a mysterious group called the Scarperers. After the successful breakout, Reardon finds himself drugged and sent to Ireland. It turns out that the escapade was organized by Mackintosh in the hopes Reardon could infiltrate the Scarperers and gather information on the group's leader, Sir George Wheeler (James Mason), and prove him to be a Russian spy.
The Mackintosh Man is a 1973 British cold war spy thriller film directed by John Huston. It was produced by John Foreman and William Hill as associate producer from a screenplay by Walter Hill and William Fairchild based on the novel The Freedom Trap by Desmond Bagley. The music score was by Maurice Jarre and the cinematography by Oswald Morris. It was made by the Newman-Foreman Company and Warner Bros.
The film stars Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda and James Mason with Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Michael Hordern, Nigel Patrick, Peter Vaughan, Roland Culver, Leo Genn, Percy Herbert and Robert Lang.
Release Date: July 25, 1982
Distrib: Warner Brothers
John Huston directed this cold war spy thriller (from a script by Walter Hill) concerning a British agent trying infiltrate the organization of a nefarious communist spy. Paul Newman is Joseph Reardon, a British secret agent commissioned by Mackintosh (Harry Andrews) to impersonate a jewel thief. When the police are tipped off about his diamond robbery, Reardon is arrested and shipped off to a high-security prison. At the prison, he meets a convicted Russian spy and the two are involved in a prison break, arranged by a mysterious group called the Scarperers. After the successful breakout, Reardon finds himself drugged and sent to Ireland. It turns out that the escapade was organized by Mackintosh in the hopes Reardon could infiltrate the Scarperers and gather information on the group's leader, Sir George Wheeler (James Mason), and prove him to be a Russian spy.
The Mackintosh Man is a 1973 British cold war spy thriller film directed by John Huston. It was produced by John Foreman and William Hill as associate producer from a screenplay by Walter Hill and William Fairchild based on the novel The Freedom Trap by Desmond Bagley. The music score was by Maurice Jarre and the cinematography by Oswald Morris. It was made by the Newman-Foreman Company and Warner Bros.
The film stars Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda and James Mason with Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Michael Hordern, Nigel Patrick, Peter Vaughan, Roland Culver, Leo Genn, Percy Herbert and Robert Lang.
Release Date: July 25, 1982
Distrib: Warner Brothers
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