The Day of the Jackal

15 - BBFC
143mins
1973

Film details

Film Title	The Day of the Jackal
Suitability
Genre	Action Thriller
Length	143mins
Year	1973
Country	France, United Kingdom
Director	Fred Zinnemann
Actors	Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Denis Carey, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham, Michael Lonsdale, Vernon Dobtcheff, Jacques François, Olga Georges-Picot, Raymond Gérôme, Barrie Ingham, Delphine Seyrig
Language	French, Italian, English
Showings

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKg63W0fZkk

In short, as so often happens, a second-rate fiction has been transformed into a first-rate screen entertainment.

★★★★

TIME

The major asset of the film is that it succeeds in maintaining interest and suspense despite obvious viewer foreknowledge of the outcome.

★★★★

Variety