The Day of the Jackal | reviewed by: William O'Donnell | February 16, 2022
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A masterfully assembled thriller. I got frequent reminders of La Samourai.
| genre | Action | foreign | Thriller |
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| synopsis | 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. |
| lead actors | Edward Fox | Terence Alexander | Michel Auclair | Alan Badel | Tony Britton | Denis Carey | Adrien Cayla-Legrand | Cyril Cusack | Maurice Denham | Vernon Dobtcheff | Jacques François | Olga Georges-Picot | Raymond Gérôme | Barrie Ingham | Derek Jacobi | Michael Lonsdale | Jean Martin | Ronald Pickup | Eric Porter | Anton Rodgers | Delphine Seyrig | 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 |
| director | Fred Zinnemann |