Movie
The Day of the Jackal
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1973-05-16
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Genres
- Action, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Productions France, Warwick Film Productions, John Woolf Productions
- Country
- France, United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Edward Fox as The Jackal
- Terence Alexander as Lloyd
- Michel Auclair as Colonel Rolland
- Alan Badel as the Minister
- Tony Britton as Inspector Thomas
- Denis Carey as Casson
- Cyril Cusack as Gunsmith
- Maurice Denham as General Colbert
- Michael Lonsdale as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
- Vernon Dobtcheff as Interrogator
- Jacques François as Pascal
- Olga Georges-Picot as Denise
Crew
- Fred Zinnemann - Director
- Kenneth Ross - Screenplay
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