Movie
The Day of the Jackal
1973PG2h 23m7.5 / 10
Nameless, faceless... relentlessly moving towards the date with death that would rock the world.
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Synopsis
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
More about The Day of the Jackal
Cast
Edward FoxThe Jackal
Terence AlexanderLloyd
Michel AuclairColonel Rolland
Alan Badelthe Minister
Tony BrittonInspector ThomasDenis CareyCasson
Cyril CusackGunsmith
Maurice DenhamGeneral ColbertCredits
- Directed by
- Fred Zinnemann
- Written by
- Kenneth Ross, Frederick Forsyth
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Box office
- $16.1M
Production
- Universal Productions FranceFrance
- Warwick Film ProductionsUnited Kingdom
- John Woolf ProductionsUnited Kingdom
Themes
assassinassassinationassassination attemptassassination of presidentbased on novel or bookcastledenunciationdisguise
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