The Day of the Jackal
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Time Out says
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
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UK release:
1973
Duration:
142 mins
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Cast:
Delphine Seyrig, Cyril Cusack, Jean Martin, Eric Porter, Alan Badel, Michel Lonsdale, Edward Fox, Donald Sinden
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