15 Most Underrated Spy Movies Of All Time

A late career effort from Maltese Falcon director/Chinatown villain John Huston, The MacKintosh Man was a 1973 spy thriller which saw acting/sauce legend Paul Newman star as a British agent sent to infiltrate a criminal organisation by posing as an infamous Australian lawbreaker.

Scripted by 48 Hours scribe Walter Hill, who complained that he wasn't happy with said screenplay, this is an icy thriller which some critics found predictable.

However there's no beating Huston's direction and Newman's charming screen presence for a throwback to golden age of Hollywood spy movies, with this one coming out just before Watergate mired the genre in self-serious paranoia for decades afterwards.

It's not the worst part of Watergate, but viewers really could have done with more fun spy thrillers if it weren't for Tricky Dick.