/The Day Of The Jackal (1973).jpg)
/The Day Of The Jackal (1973)2.jpg)
/The Day Of The Jackal (1973)3.jpg)
/The Day Of The Jackal (1973)4.jpg)
/The Day Of The Jackal (1973)5.jpg)
/The Day Of The Jackal (1973)6.jpg)
Day of the Jackal (The)
- Director: Fred Zinnemann
- Writer: Frederick Forsyth; Kenneth Ross
- Producer: Julien Derode; David Deutsch
CGiii Comment
In his illustrious career, Zinnemann won 4 Oscars. He certainly knows how to tell a story...and, in this case, he tells it very slowly indeed.
20 minutes could have been easily cut without making a dent. As a film with an ending that everyone knows before they have even pressed play...it had better be a gripping tale...and, sadly, it's not.
The gay bit comes near the end in a Turkish bath, no less..you can guess the rest.
Dated and dull.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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 & Characters
Edward Fox as The Jackal;
Terence Alexander as Lloyd;
Michel Auclair as Colonel Rolland;
Alan Badel as The Minister;
Tony Britton as Inspector Thomas;
Denis Carey as Casson;
Adrien Cayla-Legrand as The President;
Cyril Cusack as The Gunsmith;
Maurice Denham as General Colbert;
Vernon Dobtcheff as The Interrogator;
Jacques Francois as Pascal;
Olga Georges-Picot as Denise;
Raymond Gerome as Flavigny;
Barrie Ingham as St. Clair;
Derek Jacobi as Caron