Macon is an involving, enjoyable picture [based on a story by James McLendon]. Most of the credit into that, however, goes to Kirk Douglas who brings interesting nuances to his renounce as the policeman in activity of John Schneider, and Lee Purcell as a bored but significant rich girl who gets more mixed up with than she wants to in helping Schneider shake off Douglas.
Schneider himself is okay and certainly brings more to his role than anything required of him on television. Without reaching towering dramatic heights, he nonetheless ably portrays the anguish of a young husband/father wrongly sent to prison and determined to escape to rejoin his family in Mexico.
With Schneider fleeing on foot for most of the picture, Macon has a tendency to drag in spots, especially in the beginning, but writer-director Jeff Kanew wisely keeps cutting back to Douglas in plotting his chase and figuring out the angles.