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The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a political thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
- Frederick Forsyth
- 358 (first edition, UK), 380 (first edition, US)
- 1971
- 7 June 1971 (UK), 6 August 1971 (US)
Jul 30, 1973 · A professional assassin hired by a group of French veterans to kill President de Gaulle is pursued by the police in this adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's novel. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Oscar-nominated film.
- (44K)
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Fred Zinnemann
- 1973-07-30
The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale. Based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth , the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.
- $16,056,255
- John Woolf
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The Day of the Jackal is a meticulously constructed thriller with surprising irreverence and taut direction. An underground French paramilitary group is intent on eliminating President Charles de ...
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- Fred Zinnemann
- PG
- Edward Fox
The Day of the Jackal. French radicals hire British hitman to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. 2,847 IMDb 7.8 2 h 22 min 1973. X-Ray PG. Suspense · ...
A classic suspense thriller about a professional assassin hired to kill de Gaulle in 1963. Ebert praises the film's meticulous screenplay, Zinnemann's direction, and Edward Fox's performance as the jackal.
Summaries. In the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle. It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle.
