The Day of the Jackal is a 1973

Anglo-French political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann

and starring Edward Fox and Michel Lonsdale.

Based on the 1971 novel

The Day of the Jackal 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.

The Day of the Jackal received positive reviews and went on ... Read more »