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The Day of the Jackal (1973)

★ 7.5 · 671 ratings on TMDB

Nameless, faceless... relentlessly moving towards the date with death that would rock the world.

The Day of the Jackal poster★ 7.5

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.

DirectorFred Zinnemann
CastAlan Badel, Cyril Cusack, Denis Carey, Edward Fox, Maurice Denham, Michael Lonsdale
GenresAction, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Day of the Jackal keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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