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The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 Anglo-French film based on the novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth and directed by Fred Zinnemann.

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The "jackal" of the title is the code name for a man who may (or may not) be a British citizen specializing in professional assassinations. He allegedly killed Trujillo of the Dominican Republic in 1961 and, now, two years later, he has been hired by a group of Frenchmen who want de Gaulle assassinated. His price is $500,000; he says, "and considering that I'm handing you France, I wouldn't call that expensive." Zinnemann, working from Frederick Forsyth's bestseller, tells both sides of the story that unfolds during the summer of 1963. The jackal prepares two disguises and three identities, gets a legal passport by applying in the name of a child who died in 1931, and calls on European experts for his materials.An old gunsmith hand-makes a weird-looking lightweight rifle with silencer, sniper scope, and explosive bullets. A forger provides French identity papers and a driver's license (and comes to an unexpected end). And then the jackal enters France.Meanwhile, the government has received information that an attempt will be made on de Gaulle's life. The general absolutely insists that he will make no changes in his public schedule, and that any attempt to prevent an assassination must be made in secret. The French police cooperate "unofficially" with the top police forces of other nations in attempting an apprehension. But they don't even know who the jackal is.

How can they stop him? The movie provides a fascinating record of police investigative work, which combines exhaustive checking with intuition. But the jackal is clever, too, particularly when he's cornered. Some of the movie's finest moments come after the jackal's false identity is discovered and his license plates and description are distributed. He keeps running--and always convincingly; this isn't a movie about a killer with luck, but about one of uncommon intelligence and nerve.Playing the jackal, Edward Fox is excellent. The movie doesn't provide much chance for a deep characterization, but he projects a most convincing persona. He's boyishly charming, impeccably groomed, possessed of an easy laugh, and casually ruthless. He will kill if there's the slightest need to. Fox's performance is crucial to the film, of course, and the way he carries it off is impressive.The others on the case are uniformly excellent, especially Tony Britton as a harried police inspector and Cyril Cusack, in a nicely crafted little vignette, as the gunsmith. The movie's technical values (as is always the case with a Zinnemann film) are impeccable. The movie was filmed at great cost all over Europe, mostly on location, and it looks it. A production of this scope needs to appear absolutely convincing, and Zinnemann has mastered every detailÑincluding the casting of a perfect de Gaulle look-alike."The Day of the Jackal" is two and a half hours long and seems over in about fifteen minutes. There are some words you hesitate to use in a review, because they sound so much like advertising copy, but in this case I can truthfully say that the movie is spellbinding.

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The Jackal is buried in an unmarked grave in a Paris cemetery, officially recorded as "an unknown foreign tourist, killed in a car accident." Aside from the priest, the only person attending the burial is Police Inspector Claude Lebel, who then leaves the cemetery to return home to his family.Download Full movie in HD

The Day of the Jackal Movie Plot

The Day of the Jackal begins with the historical, failed attempt on de Gaulle's life planned by Col. Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart. After Bastien-Thiry's arrest, the French security
forces wage a short but extremely vicious "underground" war with the terrorists of the OAS, a militant right-wing group who have labeled de Gaulle a traitor to France after his grant of independence to Algeria. The French secret service, a.k.a. Action Service, is remarkably effective in infiltrating the terrorist organization with their own informants, allowing them to kidnap and neutralize the terrorists' chief of operations, Antoine Argoud. The failure of the Petit-Clamart assassination, and a subsequent attempt at the Ecole Militaire, coupled with Bastien-Thiry's eventual execution by firing squad, likewise cripples the morale of the terrorists.Argoud's deputy, Lt. Col. Marc Rodin, carefully examines their few remaining options and determines that the only way to succeed in killing de Gaulle is to hire a professional assassin from outside the organization, someone completely unknown to either the French authorities or the OAS itself.

After inquiries, he contacts an Englishman (whose name is never given), who meets with Rodin and his two principal deputies in Vienna, and agrees to assassinate de Gaulle for the sum of $500,000 (about $2.4 million in 2012). The four men agree on his code name, "The Jackal."The remainder of Part One describes the Jackal's exhaustive preparations for the assassination. First, he acquires a legitimate British passport under a false name, under which he plans to operate for the majority of his mission. He also steals the passports of two foreign tourists visiting London who superficially resemble the Jackal, for use in an emergency.Using his primary false passport, the Jackal travels to Belgium, where he commissions a specialized sniper rifle of great slimness and an appropriate silencer from a master gunsmith, and a set of forged French identity papers from a master forger. When picking up his fake identity papers, the master forger attempts to blackmail the Jackal but the Jackal kills him and locks the body in a large trunk inside the forger's house, where he correctly deduces it won't be found for a long time. After exhaustively researching a series of books and articles by, and about, de Gaulle, the Jackal travels to Paris to reconnoiter the most favorable spot and the most likely day for the assassination.

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The Day of the Jackal movie Cast and Crew

The Day of the Jackal  1973 movie directed by Fred Zinnemann.


Cast :      

Edward Fox ---  The Jackal
Terence Alexander---Lloyd
Michel Auclair---Colonel Rolland
Alan Badel---The Minister
Tony Britton----Inspector Thomas
Denis Carey---Casson
Adrien Cayla-Legrand----The President

Ronald Pickup----The Forger
Eric Porter----Colonel Rodin
Anton Rodgers------Bernard

Delphine Seyrig-----Colette

Donald Sinden----Mallinson
Jean Sorel----Bastien-Thiry
David Swift----Montclair

Timothy West----Berthier
Bernard Archard
Jacques Alric
Colette Berge (as Colette Berge)
Edmond Bernard

Gérard Buhr (as Gerard Buhr)
Philippe Léotard--Gendarme (as Philippe Leotard)
Maurice Teynac
Van Doude
Nicolas Vogel

Cyril Cusack--------The Gunsmith
Maurice Denham----General Colbert

Vernon Dobtcheff----The Interrogator
Jacques François----Pascal (as Jacques Francois)
Olga Georges-Picot----Denise
Raymond Gérôme----Flavigny (as Raymond Gerome)
Barrie Ingham----St. Clair

Derek Jacobi-----Caron

Michael Lonsdale----Lebel (as Michel Lonsdale)
Jean Martin-----Wolenski

Ronald Pickup----The Forger
Eric Porter----Colonel Rodin
Anton Rodgers------Bernard

Delphine Seyrig-----Colette

Donald Sinden----Mallinson
Jean Sorel----Bastien-Thiry
David Swift----Montclair

Timothy West----Berthier
Bernard Archard
Jacques Alric
Colette Berge (as Colette Berge)
Edmond Bernard

Gérard Buhr (as Gerard Buhr)
Philippe Léotard--Gendarme (as Philippe Leotard)
Maurice Teynac
Van Doude
Nicolas Vogel