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The Mackintosh Man

1973

John Huston

Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews ...

6.4

3,911

Thriller 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'The Macintosh Man' seems to have been made by a group of people with no sympathy or understanding for spy movies (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Alan R. Howard The Hollywood Reporter	"An interesting story with a sure sense of atmosphere, location and supporting characters"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[It] has very little to do with character and motivation and everything to do with the incidents and the mechanics of the spy trade. All of which seems to inhibit Huston's talents as a director, as well as those of most of his actors"	NEU
United States	Myron Meisel Chicago Reader	"The flexible dispassion of the direction achieves a dramatic passion unassociated with any of the usual psychological dividends of narrative cinema"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"Walter Hill has made a smooth enough job of adapting Desmond Bagley's novel (...) but John Huston handles the cleverly crafted frame-up, the ingenious escapes and the finale in Malta with little conviction (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Variety	"There’s a whole lot of nothing going on here."	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"If you can accept Newman as a totally unconvincing Australian (...) an appalling array of accents (...) and Dominique Sanda as an unlikely member of the British Secret Service, then it whiles away the time pleasantly enough"	NEU

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