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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.
26 November 1910, Durban, Natal, South Africa
2 February 1935, Paris, France
20 October 1934, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
29 June 1901, Paris, France
December 11, 1939 in Saint Maclou, Eure, France
13 September 1944, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
January 30, 1933 in Paris, France
14 August 1934, Nîmes, Gard, France
October 17, 1920 in Paris, France
10 April 1932, Beirut, French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon [now Lebanon]
9 June 1924, Birmingham, England, UK
28 May 1926, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
March 9, 1914 in Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, France
10 January 1933, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
6 January 1940, Shanghai, China
6 March 1922, Paris, France
7 August 1932, London, England, UK
February 29, 1924 in Paris, France
20 August 1916, Fulham, London, England, UK
15 November 1929, Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France
January 05, 2005
Great assassination-based thriller
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.
May 20, 2003
The details are minutely observed and, to me, just a bit boring.
May 24, 2003
[A] taut, slow-burning thriller.
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.
June 29, 2003
Delightfully intelligent and often irreverant, it's a good yarn and a good thriller to boot.
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.
November 01, 2007
A taut, suspenseful, and fascinating political thriller.
January 26, 2006
Low on documentary conviction and political context, but an intriguing exercise in concealing the obvious.
November 01, 2007
It's a polished and exciting thriller, mercifully unburdened with heavy political/philosophical digressions.
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.