Nameless, faceless... relentlessly moving towards the date with death that would rock the world.
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and cool.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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Cast
- Edward FoxThe Jackal
- Terence AlexanderLloyd
- Michel AuclairColonel Rolland
- Alan Badelthe Minister
- Tony BrittonInspector Thomas
- Denis CareyCasson
- Cyril CusackGunsmith
- Maurice DenhamGeneral Colbert
- Michael LonsdaleDeputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
- Vernon DobtcheffInterrogator
Crew
- Fred ZinnemannDirector
- Kenneth RossScreenplay
- Frederick ForsythNovel
- Jean TournierDirector of Photography
- Georges DelerueOriginal Music Composer
- Ralph KemplenEditor
- John WoolfProducer
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