| The Day of the Jackal | 
| Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (137 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3938
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 143 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD20261D
ISBN: 0783226853
UPC: 025192026126
EAN: 9780783226859
ASIN: 0783226853
Release Date: April 29, 1998
Theatrical Release Date: July 30, 1973
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Product Description
An assassin targets the president of france in this tense frederick forsyth thriller. Features production notes talent bios film highlights and trailers. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Edward Fox Alan Badel Run time: 143 minutes Rating: Pg
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With its high-intensity plot about an attempt to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle, the bestselling novel by Frederick Forsyth was a prime candidate for screen adaptation. Director Fred Zinnemann brought his veteran skills to bear on what has become a timeless classic of screen suspense. Not to be confused with the later remake The Jackal starring Bruce Willis (which shamelessly embraced all the bombast that Zinnemann so wisely avoided), this 1973 thriller opts for lethal elegance and low-key tenacity in the form of the Jackal, the suave assassin played with consummate British coolness by Edward Fox. He's a killer of the highest order, a master of disguise and international elusiveness, and this riveting film follows his path to de Gaulle with an intense, straightforward documentary style. Perhaps one of the last great films from a bygone age of pure, down-to-basics suspense (and a kind of debonair European alternative to the American grittiness of The French Connection), The Day of the Jackal is a cat-and-mouse thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat until its brilliantly executed final scene (pardon the pun), by which time Fox has achieved cinematic immortality as one of the screen's most memorable killers. --Jeff Shannon
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 Original and still the best November 4, 2008
This is an absolutely superior work of cinema that was foolishly judged to be eligible for a remake, horribly done, with Bruce Willis (no joke). Accept nothing but the original!
One of the very few "mysteries" that can be watched again and again, without feeling disappointed at knowing the ending. Edward Fox is chillingly original as a killer with charm and ice water in the veins, the detective tracking him is the classic plodder with an almost sixth sense about the killer, and all of the surrounding characters are interesting, intriguing and imperative to the unfolding story.
Not fully appreciated in its initial theatrical release, it's become a classic -- virtually impossible to find on DVD shelves in even the most well-stocked stores.
EDWARD FOX - THE ULTIMATE JACKAL November 3, 2008
The Day of the Jackal
The Jackal is the code name of a hired killer, Edward Fox, who's asked by rival French General's to assassinate, General Charles de Gaulle. British and French Police, combine to thwart the attempt, about which they no nothing, except that it's imminent. The script by Kenneth Ross is even better than the novel. Edward Fox performs, excellently, much better than Bruce Willis in the latest version, maintining a difficult role, well over a long film. Others in the cast are as cold and calculating as the killer, whose preparations for the crime are intercut with the massive man-hunt, launched to get him, before he gets, de Gaulle. The final race against time, is expertly filmed and edited.
New Edition Needed September 27, 2008
One of the rare films that surpasses the book it is based on. This classic thriller desperately needs to be issued in a special edition. There are brief sequences in the movie that are missing in the DVD. Notably the scene when the Jackal goes up the stairs in the Austrian hotel, and back down to the lobby when he notices the bodyguard hiding in the landing. In addition we need some special features: the making of the film, historical background to the story and a biography of Fred Zinneman.
when so many inferior movies have DVDs repackaged and reissued in every way possible, it is unbelievable that this ultimate political thriller should be neglected.
"Way Foxy" September 20, 2008
I read the book and I watched the movie. Both are phenomonal. We get to try to get inside the head of a professional assassin. We are amazed at his precision planning and deft skill. His coldness--like he is working in a factory or something, and not about to murder someone. We wonder--who all HAS he professionally executed? What does his resume look like? The tension and excitement is kept at fever pitch throughout the movie. Most entertaining in every aspect.
Good movie good price ! June 25, 2008
It might start out slow ,but it turns into a great thriller at the end. Characters were enjoyable, of course the Jackal and his disguises are really cool..if you read the other reviews you know the story. If you have never seen it I would say but it as it is only 7.00 new....and give it a shot..
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