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    Day Of The Jackal, The (1973)

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    In early 1963, having failed in its effort to kill General de Gaulle, the hard-line French Secret Army Organization (OAS), under the leadership of Colonel Rodin (Eric Porter), decides to hire a top foreign professional assassin to do the job for them.

    The man – a British assassin reputed to have engineered the dispatch of both Trujillo and Lumumba – is hired at a price of $500,000. He suggests his own code name: The Jackal, commenting “Whoever takes this job can never work again”.

    The ultimate man on a mission, the film follows The Jackal (Edward Fox) in almost documentary style as he sets about laying plans with almost religious care and procuring false papers, disguises, and his ultra-cool precision-built, made-to-measure skeletal assassination snipers rifle.

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    In the meantime, French authorities, by chance, become alert that a plot is afoot and The Minister (Alan Badel) warns the President.

    He assigns Chief Inspector Lebel (Michel Lonsdale) to locate the killer before he can get to the General.

    Fox’s stiff acting style is perfect for the utterly ruthless terrorist – probably the most dangerous man ever to don a beige sports jacket and cravat – and which Briton worth their salt can honestly say they haven’t rooted for him over the snotty and ungrateful Anglophobe de Gaulle?

    Remember, no watermelons were killed or injured during the making of this movie!

    The film was later remade starring Bruce Willis and Richard Gere under the title of The Jackal, but it had none of the finesse of the original and only serves to make people want to see the original again.

    The Jackal
    Edward Fox
    Chief Inspector
     Lebel
    Michel Lonsdale
    Colonel Rolland

    Michel Auclair
    Lloyd

    Terence Alexander
    Inspector Thomas

    Tony Britton
    Gunsmith

    Cyril Cusack
    Colette de Montpelier

    Delphine Seyrig
    General Colbert

    Maurice Denham
    Caron

    Derek Jacobi
    Bernard

    Anton Rodgers
    Casson

    Denis Carey
    Colonel Rodin

    Eric Porter
    Pascal

    Jacques François
    The Minister

    Alan Badel
    President De Gaulle

    Adrien Cayla-Legrand

    Director
    Fred Zinnemann

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