The Day Of The Jackal

The day of the jackal makes such comparable books such as the manchurian candidate and the spy who came in from the cold seem like hardy boy mysteries the new york times the jackal.

The day of the jackal. A professional assassin codenamed jackal plots to kill charles de gaulle the president of france. The day of the jackal is two and a half hours long and seems over in about fifteen minutes. It is a real duel of masterminds one staying on the side of crime and the other serving on the side of justice. 1 video 87 images.

A tall blond englishman with opaque gray eyes. The day of the jackal is a very remarkable and memorable thriller while the other novels of this sort are usually forgotten too soon this book has stuck in my head for good. The day of the jackal 1971 is a thriller novel by english author frederick forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the oas a french dissident paramilitary organisation to kill charles de gaulle the president of france. The day of the jackal is a solidly paced thriller.

Nameless and faceless the killer known by the code name of jackal edward fox relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. There are some words you hesitate to use in a review because they sound so much like advertising copy but in this case i can truthfully say that the movie is spellbinding. A killer at the top of his profession. The day of the jackal.

Not many films have succeeded in offering something this thrilling and this film remains in a league of it s own as one of the greatest thriller. The day of the jackal is a 1973 british french political thriller film directed by fred zinnemann and starring edward fox and michael lonsdale. The day of the jackal tells of a cold suave british assassin hired by the french oas to kill general charles de gaulle. 861 imdb 7 8 2h 23min 1973 x ray pg.

Based on the 1971 novel of the same name by frederick forsyth the film is about a professional assassin known only as the jackal who is hired to assassinate french president charles de gaulle in the summer of 1963.