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The Day of the Jackal
Directed by
Fred Zinnemann
PG
1973
2h 23m
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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.
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Cast of The Day of the Jackal
Edward Fox
The Jackal
Terence Alexander
Lloyd
Michel Auclair
Colonel Rolland
Alan Badel
the Minister
Tony Britton
Inspector Thomas
Denis Carey
Casson
Cyril Cusack
Gunsmith
Maurice Denham
General Colbert
Michael Lonsdale
Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
Vernon Dobtcheff
Interrogator
Jacques François
Pascal
Olga Georges-Picot
Denise
Raymond Gérôme
Flavigny
Barrie Ingham
St. Clair
Delphine Seyrig
Colette de Montpellier
Derek Jacobi
Inspector Caron
Jean Martin
Victor Wolenski
Ronald Pickup
The Forger
Eric Porter
Colonel Rodin
Anton Rodgers
Jules Bernard
Adrien Cayla-Legrand
Charles de Gaulle
Donald Sinden
Mallinson
Jean Sorel
Jean Bastien-Thiry
David Swift
Montclair
Timothy West
Commissioner Berthier
Bernard Archard
Detective Hughes
Jacques Alric
French Detective
Colette Bergé
Lebel's Wife
Edmond Bernard
Colonel Rolland's Assistant
Gérard Buhr
Gendarme on Telephone
Philippe Léotard
Gendarme
Maurice Teynac
Bastien-Thiery's Lawyer
Van Doude
Military Officer
Nicolas Vogel
OAS Agent
Féodor Atkine
Young OAS Gunfighter
Albert Augier
Policeman in Hotel
Madeleine Barbulée
Hotel Guest
Jacques Brunet
OAS Terrorist in Car
Raoul Curet
Hotel Waiter
Madeleine Damien
Ernestine
Yvonne Dany
Turkish Bath Desk Clerk
Nicole Desailly
Yvonne De Gaulle
Max Faulkner
Special Branch Detective
Robert Favart
Minister
Andréa Ferréol
Hotel Staff
Gilberte Géniat
Paris Apartment Concierge
Edward Hardwicke
Charles Harold Calthrop
Jacques Hilling
Hotel Desk Clerk
David Kernan
Per Lundquist
Robert Le Béal
Secretary at Elysée Palace
Roger Lumont
Passport Control Officer
Mike Marshall
Gendarme at Tulle
Max Melloy
Parliamentary Usher
Jean Michaud
Cabinet Member
Bernard Musson
Usher at Elysée Palace
André Penvern
Policeman at Tulle Station
Pierre Risch
Michel, Colette's Gardener
Liliane Rovère
Hotel Chambermaid
Bernard Spiegel
Groom
Jacqueline Stanbury
Hair Dye Clerk
Guy Standeven
Police Constable
Michel Subor
OAS Terrorist in Car
François Valorbe
Valmy, OAS Contract
Howard Vernon
Cabinet Member
Nicholas Young
Passport Officer
The Day of the Jackal Ratings & Reviews
Lawrence Journal-World
Jon Niccum
Great assassination-based thriller
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Like all Zinnemann's work, this meticulously crafted political thriller is involving but not exciting due to his detached perspective and the fact that we know the outcome, that De Gaulle wasn't assassinated, but it's cast with Europe's best actors.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I wasn't prepared for how good it really is: it's not just a suspense classic, but a beautifully executed example of filmmaking.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
An engrossing film about a terrorist.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Bob Bloom
A taut, suspenseful thriller that is as exciting as the first time you saw it. Fox is wonderful as the assassin; a great cat-and-mouse feature.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
A taut, suspenseful, and fascinating political thriller.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Director Fred Zinnemann, scripter Kenneth Ross, and editor Ralph Kemplen (earning this film's sole Oscar nomination) all deserve high marks.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
In short, as so often happens, a second-rate fiction has been transformed into a first-rate screen entertainment.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
It's a polished and exciting thriller, mercifully unburdened with heavy political/philosophical digressions.
Variety
Variety Staff
The major asset of the film is that it succeeds in maintaining interest and suspense despite obvious viewer foreknowledge of the outcome.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The details are minutely observed and, to me, just a bit boring.
Gannett News Service
Bernard Drew
This is not a bad movie, it races by and entertains, after a fashion. It simply is not as good as it should have been.
Philadelphia Inquirer
William B. Collins
As the tension rises, you feel terribly helpless. You just have to sit there and let it happen.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Pollack
Director Fred Zinnemann has provided a splendid film of thrilling, tense entertainment in The Day of the Jackal.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Delightfully intelligent and often irreverant, it's a good yarn and a good thriller to boot.
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Keith Uhlich
Possesses a tonal coldness that aligns viewers with the assassin's reptilian machinations. -Guest post by Michael Joshua Rowin
The New Yorker
Penelope Gilliatt
It is the sustained gentleness of Fred Zinnemann's professional temperament that makes the picture a clockwork amusement to watch.
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