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Genres:
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Drama /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Fred Zinnemann
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Actors:
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Cyril Cusack,
Maurice Denham,
Alan Badel,
Michel Auclair,
Denis Carey,
Adrien Cayla-Legrand,
Edward Fox,
Terence Alexander,
Tony Britton,
Vernon Dobtcheff
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Duration:
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143 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)397
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Plot Summary:
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It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Unfamiliar Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. The result is that he is the most closely reluctant the human race in the . As a rash act, they hire The Jackal, the encypher name for a hired killer who agrees to kill French President De Gaulle for half a million dollars. We be careful of his preparations which are so proper we reason how he could possibly flag even as we wait for the French police venture to pick up his trail. The situation is historically accurate. There were many such attempts and t... he film closely follows the draw of the post.
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The Day of the Jackal
Inherently suspenseless (history would give us several more years of assassination-target De Gaulle), this adaptation...
The Day of the Jackal
Edward Fox plays the enigmatic assassin Charles Calthrop (aka the Jackal) in this tense, slow-burning thriller about an English hitman sent via French terrorists to assassinate Comprehensive de Gaulle. Adapted from Frederick Forsyth's fresh, and remade in 1997 with Bruce Willis and Richard Gere, the original version is the superb. Undeterred by the authoritative be of valid not knowing ?— de Gaulle was very much alive when it was released ?— the film plays cleverly on contemporary French politics: the President had myriad enemies who wanted him off of the way.
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