The Day of the Jackal (1973)

Name: The Day of the Jackal
Released: 1973
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton

• Movies, Action, Thriller

• 143 min

7.5

Nameless, faceless... relentlessly moving towards the date with death that would rock the world.

Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Casting: 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, Derek Jacobi, Jean Martin, Ronald Pickup, Eric Porter, Anton Rodgers, Adrien Cayla-Legrand, Donald Sinden, Jean Sorel, David Swift, Timothy West, Bernard Archard, Jacques Alric, Colette Bergé, Edmond Bernard, Gérard Buhr, Philippe Léotard, Maurice Teynac, Van Doude, Nicolas Vogel, Féodor Atkine, Albert Augier, Madeleine Barbulée, Jacques Brunet, Raoul Curet, Madeleine Damien, Yvonne Dany, Nicole Desailly, Max Faulkner, Robert Favart, Andréa Ferréol, Gilberte Géniat, Edward Hardwicke, Jacques Hilling, David Kernan, Robert Le Béal, Roger Lumont, Mike Marshall, Max Melloy, Jean Michaud, Bernard Musson, André Penvern, Pierre Risch, Liliane Rovère, Bernard Spiegel, Jacqueline Stanbury, Guy Standeven, Michel Subor, François Valorbe, Howard Vernon, Nicholas Young
Countries: France, United Kingdom
Premiere: 1973-05-16
Status: Released

Tags: assassin, assassination, france, paris, france, based on novel or book, police, hitman, traitor, castle, fake identity, disguise, denunciation

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.