The MacKintosh Man (1973)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.2/10   

Director:

John Huston

Escritores:

Walter Hill (screenplay)
Desmond Bagley (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 julio 1973 (USA)

Género:

Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Only Mackintosh can save them now - And Mackintosh is dead!

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Traitor | Spy | Ireland | Malta | Safe House

Comentarios de los usuarios:

John Huston, Walter Hill, and Paul Newman go to Great Britain

Reparto

Paul Newman	...	Rearden
Dominique Sanda	...	Mrs. Smith
James Mason	...	Sir George Wheeler
Harry Andrews	...	Mackintosh
Ian Bannen	...	Slade
Michael Hordern	...	Brown
Nigel Patrick	...	Soames-Trevelyan
Peter Vaughan	...	Brunskill
Roland Culver	...	Judge
Percy Herbert	...	Taafe
Robert Lang	...	Jack Summers
Jenny Runacre	...	Gerda
John Bindon	...	Buster
Hugh Manning	...	Prosecutor
Wolfe Morris	...	Malta Police Commissioner

También conocida como:

El hombre de Mackintosh (Spain) [es]

Duración:

98 min

País:

UK | USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Iceland:16 | UK:15 (video rating) (1988) | UK:AA (cut) (theatrical rating) (1973) | Canada:14A (video rating) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | West Germany:16 | Canada:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

County Galway, Ireland

Compañía:

Newman-Foreman Company

Trivialidades:

The last cinema feature of Niall MacGinnis.

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: Reflected in the side window of the truck when Rearden drives off to meet the airplane at the airfield.

Citas:

Slade: [musing poetically] I'm going home.
[quoting poetry]
Slade: 'Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.'
Joseph Rearden: [laconically] I don't know about you, Slade; I'm not ready for death. The rest I'll drink to.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Poliziotto senza paura (1977)

John Huston, Walter Hill, and Paul Newman go to Great Britain

British society is under assault according to the opening scene which has James Mason as a Conservative MP addressing Parliament about social decay. Of course when it comes down to it, he's about as corrupt as they come, a fact suspected by the British police, who orchestrate a plan to infiltrate a criminal gang by getting one of their own (Paul Newman) sent to prison. Hollywood talent of writer Walter Hill (great 70's and 80's director), John Huston and Paul Newman mingles with British sensibilities and a really nice soundtrack to create a whole that exceeds the parts. The story starts take off at about the middle of the film, out somewhere on the Irish moors with Newman having infiltrated the criminal gang who had sprung him out of prison. The viewer is lulled into thinking this is a lighter film than it actually turns out to be, which has some surprisingly tough parts, especially the ending.