The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal

🎞️ Movie 143 min GB
โ˜… 7.8 /10 1973

Nameless, faceless... relentlessly moving towards the date with death that would rock the world.

It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. The result is that he is the most closely guarded man in the world. As a desperate act, they hire The Jackal, the code name for a hired killer who agrees to kill French President De Gaulle for half a million dollars. We watch his preparations which are so thorough we wonder how he could possibly fail even as we watch the French police attempt to pick up his trail. The situation is historically accurate. There were many such attempts and the film closely follows the plot of the book.

Cast

Edward Fox
Edward Fox
The Jackal
Terence Alexander
Terence Alexander
Lloyd
Michel Auclair
Michel Auclair
Colonel Rolland
Alan Badel
Alan Badel
The Minister
Tony Britton
Tony Britton
Inspector Thomas
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Denis Carey
Casson
Adrien Cayla-Legrand
Adrien Cayla-Legrand
The President
Cyril Cusack
Cyril Cusack
The Gunsmith
Maurice Denham
Maurice Denham
General Colbert
Vernon Dobtcheff
Vernon Dobtcheff
The Interrogator
Georges Delerue
Georges Delerue
Composer
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Jean Tournier
Cinematographer