The MacKintosh Man

"Only MacKintosh can save them now - and MacKintosh is dead!"

Nov 8 1973 PG 1h 38m
Thriller

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; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...

Plot

Joseph Rearden (Paul Newman) takes the fall for a robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. From there, he escapes in the company of a convicted spy and is taken to a remote manor at an unknown location where he is kept isolated. He overpowers his guard and flees, but nothing is quite what it seems in this drama of intrigue as Rearden pursues his quarry from Ireland to Malta.

Written by

Walter Hill, Desmond Bagley, William Fairchild

Directed by

John Huston

Production Countries

United States of America, United Kingdom

Production Companies

Newman-Foreman Company

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
5,643
Average Rating
6.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA