Joseph Rearden 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 flies, but nothing is quite what it seems in this drama of intrigue as Rearden pursues his quarry from Ireland to Malta.

The MacKintosh Man (1973)
  • Rating: (1,789 votes)
  • Tagline:Only Mackintosh can save them now - And Mackintosh is dead! »
  • Runtime:98 minutes
  • Director: John Huston
  • Countries:UK, USA
  • Actors:
    Rearden
    Paul Newman
    Mrs. Smith
    Dominique Sanda
    Sir George Wheeler
    James Mason
    Mackintosh
    Harry Andrews
    Slade
    Ian Bannen
    Brown
    Michael Hordern
    Soames-Trevelyan
    Nigel Patrick
    Brunskill
    Peter Vaughan
    Judge
    Roland Culver
    Taafe
    Percy Herbert
  • Genre:Thriller
  • Producers:
    John Foreman
    producer  
    William Hill
    associate producer  
  • Plots: Joseph Rearden 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 flies, but nothing is quite what it seems in this drama of intrigue as Rearden pursues his quarry from Ireland to Malta. Written by Martin H. Booda <booda@datasync.com>
The MacKintosh Man
  • User's comment:Somewhat disappointing by Wizard-8

    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.


  • Quotes: Jervis: How'd you scrape your knuckles? Joseph Rearden: Shadowboxing a lamppost. Joseph Rearden: I got a little pissed last night.
  • Also known as: Czlowiek MacKintosha (Poland), Der Mackintosh Mann (West Germany), El emisario de Mackintosh (Mexico - imdb display title), El hombre de Mackintosh (Spain), Fällan (Sweden), L'agente speciale Mackintosh (Italy), Le piège (France), Mackintosh embere (Hungary - imdb display title), Mackintoshin joukoissa (Finland), Med ryggen mod muren (Denmark), O Emissário de Mackintosh (Brazil), O Misterioso Mr. Mackintosh (Portugal), O anthropos me to adiavroho (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Rett i fellen (Norway - imdb display title), Tapa tai kuole (Finland),

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