Day of the Jackal
A British professional assassin codenamed 'Jackal' employed by disgruntled French generals to kill Charles de Gaulle while a dedicated gendarme follows the assassin's trail.
2 February 1935, Paris,
14 August 1934, Nîmes, Gard,
22 February 1925, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise,
16 May 1920, Paris,
27 May 1925, Paris,
6 March 1922, Paris,
25 September 1934, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône,
3 April 1931, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
September 8, 1920 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône,
January 30, 1933 in Paris,
6 January 1940, Shanghai, China
26 November 1910, Durban, Natal, South Africa
15 November 1929, Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine,
August 2, 1902 in Quang Yen, French Indochina [now Vietnam]
20 October 1934, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
27 February 1948, Paris,
6 January 1947, Aix-en-Provence,
10 April 1932, Beirut, French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon [now Lebanon]
8 August 1915, Paris,
23 June 1938, London, England, UK
8 April 1928, London, England, UK
December 11, 1939 in Saint Maclou, Eure,
11 June 1949, London, England, UK
February 17, 1916 in Paris, Ile-de-,
July 13, 1921 in Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia [now Tunisia]
15 July 1914, Baden, Switzerland
11 September 1923, Rusholme, Manchester, England, UK
September 11, 2003
A taut, suspenseful thriller that is as exciting as the first time you saw it. Fox is wonderful as the assassin; a great cat-and-mouse feature.
June 29, 2003
Delightfully intelligent and often irreverant, it's a good yarn and a good thriller to boot.
May 24, 2003
[A] taut, slow-burning thriller.
January 05, 2005
Great assassination-based thriller
October 23, 2004
I wasn't prepared for how good it really is: it's not just a suspense classic, but a beautifully executed example of filmmaking.
April 23, 2007
Like all Zinnemann's work, this meticulously crafted political thriller is involving but not exciting due to his detached perspective and the fact that we know the outcome, that De Gaulle wasn't assassinated, but it's cast with Europe's best actors.
May 20, 2003
The details are minutely observed and, to me, just a bit boring.
November 01, 2007
The major asset of the film is that it succeeds in maintaining interest and suspense despite obvious viewer foreknowledge of the outcome.
June 13, 2004
An engrossing film about a terrorist.
January 26, 2006
Low on documentary conviction and political context, but an intriguing exercise in concealing the obvious.
November 01, 2007
A taut, suspenseful, and fascinating political thriller.
November 01, 2007
It's a polished and exciting thriller, mercifully unburdened with heavy political/philosophical digressions.
