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The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale.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.
Edward Charles Morice Fox OBE (born 13 April 1937) is an English actor and a member of the Fox family. Fox starred in the film The Day of the Jackal (1973), playing the part of a professional assassin , known only as the "Jackal" , who is hired to assassinate the French president, Charles de Gaulle , in the summer of 1963.
In the 1973 adaptation of the novel, the Jackal is portrayed by Edward Fox. Some of the Jackal's background details are clarified: the dossier the OAS read from states that the Jackal killed Trujillo and the "fellow in the Congo" (presumably Dag Hammarskjöld or Patrice Lumumba). Within the film, his alias names vary slightly from the ones he ...
In the 1973 film adaption, starring Edward Fox as the Jackal, he also dies at the end. But— spoiler alert !—in the season one finale of the 2024 television series, starring Eddie Redmayne as ...
$15.70 at amazon.com. Loosely based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel of the same name (which was adapted into a 1973 film starring Edward Fox), The Day of the Jackal is a modern remake. “Our ...
The story has previously been adapted twice for the screen, first in 1973 by director Fred Zinnemann with Edward Fox as the Jackal and Michel Lonsdale as his Parisian police detective foil in a ...
The film The Day of the Jackal was released in 1973, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox as The Jackal, Michael Lonsdale as Lebel, and Derek Jacobi as Caron. It follows the novel rather faithfully although it has several cosmetic changes. [30]
Warning: this post contains spoilers for The Day of the Jackal. Eddie Redmayne knew that there was a lot riding on The Day of the Jackal. ... in which Edward Fox plays the titular assassin.