The MacKintosh Man

Spy thriller in which British agent Joseph Reardon (Paul Newman) who is tasked by the mysterious espionage mastermind Mackintosh to impersonate an Australian agent and deliberately take the fall for a diamond robbery, landing him in prison so that he can form an alliance with a notorious criminal. Not all is as it seems, though, in this taught adaptation of Desmond Bagley's novel THE FREEDOM TRAP. (official distributor synopsis)