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The Mackintosh Man is a 1973 British cold war spy thriller film directed by John Huston and starring Paul Newman, James Mason, Dominique Sanda and Ian Bannen. It was produced by John Foreman and William Hill as associate producer from a screenplay by Walter Hill and William Fairchild based on the novel The Freedom Trap by Desmond Bagley. The music score was by Maurice Jarre and the cinematography by Oswald Morris. It was made by the Newman-Foreman Company and Warner Bros. The film stars Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda and James Mason with Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Michael Hordern, Nigel... MORE

The Mackintosh Man is a 1973 British cold war spy thriller film directed by John Huston and starring Paul Newman, James Mason, Dominique Sanda and Ian Bannen. It was produced by John Foreman and William Hill as associate producer from a screenplay by Walter Hill and William Fairchild based on the novel The Freedom Trap by Desmond Bagley. The music score was by Maurice Jarre and the cinematography by Oswald Morris. It was made by the Newman-Foreman Company and Warner Bros. The film stars Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda and James Mason with Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Michael Hordern, Nigel Patrick, Peter Vaughan, Roland Culver, Leo Genn, Percy Herbert and Robert Lang. The film was shot in the UK, Republic of Ireland and Malta. It and the book it is adapted from, are loosely based on the exposure and defection of George Blake, a Soviet agent in British intelligence. The scene where Slade and Rearden escape from prison are inspired by Blake's escape from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966. The jail scenes were filmed at Liverpool Prison and Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin. Joseph Rearden (Newman), an agent of British Intelligence arrives in London and makes a rendezvous with Mackintosh (Andrews), the head LESS