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...MACKINTOSH MAN is a triumph of the packager's craft. It brings together a trio of international stars (Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda and James Mason), an array of first-class English supporting players (Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Nigel Patrick), and a renowned director (John Huston) whose work is not what it once was-or seemed to be -but who remains a solidly professional moviemaker. However, a close inspection of the script could have saved everyone a lot of trouble. It seems to have been prematurely disinterred from a time capsule devoted to the cultural artifacts of the 1960s, when...
...London suburb, the police are engaged in an all-out man hunt for a sex pervert who molests children. Connery is a detective who brings a peculiar passion to the pursuit. When a prime suspect (Ian Bannen) is captured, Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit...
...starts dropping broad hints on this matter too. Flash cuts and dialogue indicate Connery cannot purge his mind of the dirty pictures left there by previous investigations of violent crimes. They are pulling him toward a psychopathy as profound as any he has ever investigated, and the beating of Bannen is a demonstration that mental illness can be infectious. It is also a working out anew of the cliche that the difference between the police mentality and the criminal mind is small and easily blurred...
...commander. A reluctant Japanese-language specialist seconded from the American Navy (Cliff Robertson) is straight out of The Bridge on the River Kwai; he becomes the company pragmatist who is determined only to save his own neck. The rest of the motley crew consists of bellyaching foot soldiers (Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Lance Percival, Percy Herbert) whose only function is to keep the humor flying by calling each other "nits" and "fairies," and to get killed...
JOHNNY BELINDA (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Mia Farrow stars as the victimized deaf-mute in a TV production of Johnny Belinda. With Barry Sullivan, Ian Bannen and David Carradine...