Film
The Day of the Jackal
- Director
- Fred Zinneman
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 143 mins
The first and best screen adaptation of a Frederick Forsyth novel casts Edward Fox as a cold, fastidious and suave lone assassin who’s hired by the OAS to whack French President Charles de Gaulle. It’s taut and suspenseful, which is rather more than could be said for the 1997 remake with, er, Bruce Willis.
The Day of the Jackal is back on screen in the shed’s November States of Danger and Deceit: European Political Thrillers in the 1970s Sunday brunch season.
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