The Mackintosh man [videorecording] / Warner Bros. a Warner Communication Company presents ; a Newman-Foreman Company, John Huston production ; produced by John Foreman ; screenplay by Walter Hill ; directed by John Huston.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 110401 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: [United States] : Warner Home Video, [2006]Description: 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 1419842757
- 9781419842757
- Photography, Oswald Morris ; music, Maurice Jarre.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Mackinto | Available | 33111006607200 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
John Huston directed this cold war spy thriller (from a script by Walter Hill) concerning a British agent trying infiltrate the organization of a nefarious communist spy. Paul Newman is Joseph Reardon, a British secret agent commissioned by Mackintosh (Harry Andrews) to impersonate a jewel thief. When the police are tipped off about his diamond robbery, Reardon is arrested and shipped off to a high-security prison. At the prison, he meets a convicted Russian spy and the two are involved in a prison break, arranged by a mysterious group called the Scarperers. After the successful breakout, Reardon finds himself drugged and sent to Ireland. It turns out that the escapade was organized by Mackintosh in the hopes Reardon could infiltrate the Scarperers and gather information on the group's leader, Sir George Wheeler (James Mason), and prove him to be a Russian spy. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
Based on the novel "The Freedom Trap" by Desmond Bagley.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1973.
Special features: vintage featurette, John Huston: the man, the myth, the moviemaker; theatrical trailer.
Photography, Oswald Morris ; music, Maurice Jarre.
Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Michael Hordern.
Joseph Rearden is British Intelligence's man on the inside. It's his job to become what he isn't-- even a thief and convict-- to convince the group he infiltrates that he's one of them. And it's his job to get through it all alive.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.; dual layer.
English and French dialogue, with subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned.