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The Day of the Jackal
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.
1973 · Directed by Fred Zinnemann · 143 min · Action · Thriller · 9 frames
Tagline
Nameless, faceless... relentlessly moving towards the date with death that would rock the world.
Crew
- Screenplay: Kenneth Ross
- Cinematography: Jean Tournier
- Edited by: Ralph Kemplen
- Music: Georges Delerue
- Produced by: John Woolf
Cast
- 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
- Cyril Cusack as Gunsmith
- Maurice Denham as General Colbert
- Michael Lonsdale as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
- Vernon Dobtcheff as Interrogator
Production
- Country: France, United Kingdom
- Language: French, Italian, English
- Studios: Universal Productions France, Warwick Film Productions, John Woolf Productions
- Box office: $16,056,255
- Themes: assassin, assassination, france, paris, france, based on novel or book, police, hitman, traitor, castle, fake identity
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