It's a pretty good spy adventure, with Paul Newman, James Mason, and Dominique Sanda. Newman is Reardon, undercover, trying to flesh out the traitor in their intelligence leak. Sanda is "Smith", the daughter of the senior intelligence, helping Reardon along the way. We hear some of the setup details at the beginning, but things are pretty cloudy and confusing until about two thirds through; when Reardon meets up with Smith, things start to be answered and laid out. It's pretty ok. no big surprises or twists. and the ending is a little off, but don't want to say more, to avoid spoilers. Newman would make another film with Mason about ten years later "The Verdict", also shown on Turner Classics. Directed by John Houston... one of the lighter films he made. had made a bunch with Bogart.
Review of The MacKintosh Man
