The Mackintosh Man

A stately if simple opening from director John Huston, crossing the Thames to Parliament and finding James Mason as a Tory MP, Harry Andrews in the gallery, then star Paul Newman crossing Trafalgar Square, in The MacKintosh Man, 1973, also starring Dominique Sanda, from a novel by Desmond Bagley.

Paul Newman has just entered an office off Trafalgar Square where exposition begins, as we learn he’s Rearden, who might be some sort of agent, greeted by Dominique Sanda as in-the-know office help Mrs. Smith and Harry Andrews as the title character, with oblique chat about crime, early in John Huston’s The MacKintosh Man, 1973.

Set up by earlier conversation, though we don’t exactly know his status or motivation, Paul Newman as agent Rearden, posing as an Aussie, with support from Dominique Sanda as “Mrs. Smith,” mugs a London postman (Eric Mason) for a package of diamonds, early in John Huston’s spy thriller The MacKintosh Man, 1973.

A British agent goes undercover as a jewel thief to nab a Communist spy in John Huston's The Mackintosh Man (1973) starring Paul Newman.