The Day of the Jackal (1973)
When President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of the men who died there. So they form a group and make attempts at De Gaulle and fail. When several of their key members are killed or caught and eventually executed, the three top members decide to hire a professional assassin to take out De Gaulle. The man that they chose agrees to do it on the condition that he be alllowed complete autonomy. He also advises them to go into hiding until the job is done. And they do. When the French Security force learns that they have shut themselves off from the rest of world are curious what they are doing. So they abduct their errand boy, and once interrogated all he says is the assassin’s code name, “The Jackal”, they hypothesize that they have hired an assassin to go after DE Gaulle. Once De Gaulle is informed he refuses to alter his plans and will not allow extra security added. So his ministry decides that they should find the Jackal before he makes his move. They appoint the best detective in France, Claude Lebel to find him. Lebel plan is to contact every police department in the world and see if the Jackal comes from their country and if so to provide him with a description and/or a photo. Now Scotland Yard has a small lead but unfortunately they miss him but they have his passport so assuming that he is out of the country, they try and find the passport that he is using. Now when they think that they have him, he discards the identity that he is using and assumes another one. Can they find him before he gets De Gaulle?
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Genre: Thriller Director: Fred Zinnemann Writers: Frederick Forsyth (book) Kenneth Ross (screenplay) 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 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 Bergé … (as Colette Berge) Edmond Bernard … Gérard Buhr … (as Gerard Buhr) Philippe Léotard … Gendarme (as Philippe Leotard) Maurice Teynac … Van Doude … Nicolas Vogel … Féodor Atkine … (uncredited) Jacques Brunet … Bit Part (uncredited) Jean Champion … (uncredited) Nicole Desailly … Yvonne De Gaulle (uncredited) Max Faulkner … Special Branch Detective (uncredited) Robert Favart … Minister (uncredited) Andréa Ferréol … (uncredited) Gilberte Géniat … (uncredited) Edward Hardwicke … Charles Calthrop (uncredited) David Kernan … Per Lundquist (uncredited) Robert Le Béal … (uncredited) Roger Lumont … Hotel employee (uncredited) Bernard Musson … (uncredited) Michel Subor … Spy in the car (uncredited) Howard Vernon … State Secretary (uncredited) Nicholas Young … Passport Officer (uncredited) Also Known As (AKA) Chacal Belgium (French title) / Canada (French title) / France / Portugal (imdb display title) / Spain (imdb display title) El día del chacal Argentina / Peru Schakalen Finland (imdb display title) (Swedish title) / Sweden Sjakalen Denmark / Norway Çakalin Günü Turkey (DVD title) (Turkish title) A sakál napja Hungary Dani šakala Serbia De jakhals Belgium (Flemish title) Der Schakal West Germany Dzien szakala Poland Fred Zinnemann’s Film of The Day of the Jackal UK (complete title) I ora tou tsakaliou Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title) Il giorno dello sciacallo Italy O Dia do Chacal Brazil (imdb display title) Shakaali Finland |
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