The Day of the Jackal
Nameless, faceless... relentlessly moving towards the date with death that would rock the world.
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- Action
- Thriller
Overview
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.
Keywords
- paris
- france
- based on novel or book
- castle
- traitor
- police
- hitman
- assassin
- disguise
- assassination
- fake identity
- assassination attempt
- denunciation
- assassination of president
- paris, france
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 16, 1973
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- French, Italian, English
- Countries
- France, United Kingdom
- Production
- Universal Pictures,Universal Productions France S.A.,Warwick Productions,Warwick Film Productions,John Woolf Productions,Universal Productions France
- Cast
- Edward Fox,Terence Alexander,Michel Auclair,Alan Badel,Tony Britton,Denis Carey,Cyril Cusack,Maurice Denham,Michael Lonsdale,Vernon Dobtcheffand 55 more
- Director
- Fred Zinnemann
- Producer
- John Woolf
- Cinematography
- Jean Tournier
- Music
- Georges Delerue
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- $16,056,255
- IMDb
- tt0069947