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The MacKintosh Man

1973 · 99 min

A cool, unhurried Cold War caper that trades glamour for procedural grit, with occasional jolts of brutality and a quietly bitter finish.

Tagline
Only MacKintosh can save them now - and MacKintosh is dead!
Overview
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...

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • conspiracy
  • betrayal
  • loyalty
  • revenge
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
  • sea
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror1
Humour3
Realism7
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight4

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Genres
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Directed by
John Huston
Written by
Gladys Hill, Walter Hill, William Fairchild, Gerald Hanley
Starring
Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Michael Hordern, Nigel Patrick, Peter Vaughan
Music
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Cinematography
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Languages
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