The MacKintosh Man

1973

Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 43% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 43% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 5732 5.7K

spy

Plot summary

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...

Director

John Huston Photo
John Huston

Top cast

Aileen Lewis Photo
Aileen Lewis as Member of Parliament
Ian Bannen Photo
Ian Bannen as Slade
Roland Culver Photo
Roland Culver as Judge
Paul Newman Photo
Paul Newman as Rearden
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913.09 MB
1280*726
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 1
1.66 GB
1906*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 6 / 10

stale construction

British agent Joseph Rearden (Paul Newman) meets his superior MacKintosh and Mrs Smith who direct him to steal diamonds from mysterious mail deliveries. He gets arrested after an anonymous tip and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He joins Slade, a KGB mole in British intelligence, in a prison escape. They are drugged and brought to a vast secret organization. Meanwhile, politician Sir George Wheeler (James Mason) rails against the government and MacKintosh informs him of infiltrating the escape organization.The first act is rather stale. John Huston directs the material in a standard manner. The trial is boring. It would have worked much better to start with Newman arriving in prison. His intelligence background should be revealed much later as a shocking twist. The pacing and plotting is rather slow and methodical. It is competently made and it has the great Paul Newman. It's well into the second half when they finally have a car chase. Otherwise, the drama is rather limited.
Reviewed by Wizard-8 5 / 10

Somewhat disappointing

While never actively bad, this thriller just isn't exceptional. The first half isn't bad (we keep wondering why Newman is doing these things, and we wonder where he's going and what's going to happen), though it somehow lacks "oomph" to everything. In the second half, it starts to get dull. You won't be clear on everything in the end, and the climax came off more as a whimper than a bang. Nowhere near the worst movie in the world, but you can give it a miss despite Huston directing and Newman starring. This didn't do very well at the box office when it first came out, and it's easy to see why.
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