The Day of the Jackal
Synopsis
Year 1963. President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of the men who died there. So they form a group and make attempts at De Gaulle and fail. When several of their key members are killed or caught and eventually executed, the three top members decide to hire a professional assassin to take out De Gaulle. The man that they chose agrees to do it on the condition that he be alllowed complete autonomy. He also advises them to go into hiding until the job is done. And they do. When the French Security force learns that they have shut themselves off from the rest of world are curious what they are doing. So they abduct their errand boy, and once interrogated all he says is the assassin's code name, "The Jackal", they hypothesize that they have hired an assassin to go after DE Gaulle. Once De Gaulle is informed he refuses to alter his plans and will not allow extra sec...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (53)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Universal Pictures International France
- Foreign production company : Warwick Film
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : John Woolf
- Screenwriter : Kenneth Ross
- Director of Photography : Jean Tournier
- Music Composer : Georges Delerue
- Assistant directors : Alain Bonnot, Louis Pitzelé
- Editor : Ralph Kemplen
- Costume designer : Rosine Delamare
- Author of original work : Frederick Forsyth
- Co-producer : Julien Derode
- Production Manager : Henri Jaquillard
- Casting : Margot Capelier
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Crime/thriller
- Themes : Politics, Murder
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Great Britain, France
