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The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Inherently suspenseless (history would give us several more years of assassination-target De Gaulle), this adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's bestseller yet provides an occasionally satisfying core of tension that owes less to Zinnemann's penchant for High Noon-ish clock-watching than to his schematic opposition of a cold, chameleonic lone killer (Fox, the OAS's hired pro) with a messy, though equally ruthless, bureaucracy of 'democratic' defence. Low on documentary conviction and political context, but an intriguing exercise in concealing the obvious.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Producer: John Woolf
Cast: Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Eric Porter, Jean Martin, Cyril Cusack, Delphine Seyrig, Donald Sinden full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 142 mins
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