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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.
15 July 1914, Baden, Switzerland
23 June 1938, London, England, UK
6 January 1940, Shanghai, China
22 October 1938, Leytonstone, London, England, UK
February 29, 1924 in Paris, France
August 2, 1902 in Quang Yen, French Indochina [now Vietnam]
October 20, 1914 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France
3 August 1909, London, England, UK
7 August 1932, London, England, UK
2 February 1935, Paris, France
11 September 1923, Rusholme, Manchester, England, UK
10 January 1933, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
May 24, 2003
[A] taut, slow-burning thriller.
November 01, 2007
A taut, suspenseful, and fascinating political 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.
June 29, 2003
Delightfully intelligent and often irreverant, it's a good yarn and a good thriller to boot.
June 13, 2004
An engrossing film about a terrorist.
January 05, 2005
Great assassination-based thriller
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.
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.
January 26, 2006
Low on documentary conviction and political context, but an intriguing exercise in concealing the obvious.
May 20, 2003
The details are minutely observed and, to me, just a bit boring.
November 01, 2007
It's a polished and exciting thriller, mercifully unburdened with heavy political/philosophical digressions.
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.