Title: Day of the Jackal, The (1973)

URL: http://www.imdb.com/Title?Day%20of%20the%20Jackal%2C%20The%20%281973%29

Aka Titles:
  Giorno dello sciacallo, Il (1973) (Italy)
  Schakal, Der (1973) (West Germany)

Production Company:
  Warwick Film Productions
  Universal Pictures [aka MCA/Universal Pictures] [us]

Distributor:
  Universal Pictures [aka MCA/Universal Pictures] [us]

Country of Production:
  France / UK

Certificates:
  USA:PG
  UK:15
  Finland:K-16
  Germany:16
  Norway:15
  Sweden:15

Running Time:
  UK:142
  Germany:145

Filmed In:
  Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:
  Westrex

Release Date:
  Sweden:5 September 1973
  Finland:19 October 1973
  Netherlands:25 October 1973

Language:
  English

Summary:
  It is the early 60s  in  France.  The  remaining  survivors  of  the
  aborted  French  Foreign  Legion have made repeated attempts to kill
  DeGaulle. The result is that he is the most closely guarded  man  in
  the  world.  As a desperate act, they hire The Jackal, the code name
  for a hired killer who agrees to kill  French  President  De  Gaulle
  for  half  a million dollars. We watch his preparations which are so
  thorough we wonder how he could possibly fail even as we  watch  the
  French  police  attempt  to  pick  up  his  trail.  The situation is
  historically accurate. There were many such attempts  and  the  film
  closely follows the plot of the book.

Summary by:
  John Vogel 

Summary:
  A British assassin is employed by  disgruntled  French  generals  to
  kill  Charles  de  Gaulle  while  a  dedicated  gendarme follows the
  assassin's trail in this  political  thriller.  The  film  uses  the
  perspectives  of  the ultra-professional assassin as he prepares his
  work and that of the harried  but  humble  French  detective  as  he
  undercovers the plot.

Summary by:
  Keith Loh 

Genres:
  Thriller

Keywords:
  assassination  based-on-novel  detective  france  historical  political
  spy

Producers:
  Julien Derode (co-producer)
  David Deutsch (co-producer)
  John Woolf

Director:
  Fred Zinnemann

Writers: (alphabetical order)
  Frederick Forsyth (novel)
  Kenneth Ross

Composer:
  Georges Delerue

Cinematographer:
  Jean Tournier

Editor:
  Ralph Kemplen

Costume Designers:
  Joan Bridge
  Rosine Delamare
  Elizabeth Haffenden

Casting:
  Margot Capelier
  Jenia Reissar

Assistant Directors:
  Andrew Marton (second Unit Director)
  Louis Pitzele (assistant director)
  Peter Price (III) (assistant director)

Production Managers:
  Henri Jaquillard (production manager)
  John Palmer (I) (production manager)

Sound:
  Bob Allen (I) (sound recordist) (as Robert Allen)
  Gordon K. McCallum (dubbing mixer)
  Nicholas Stevenson (sound editor)

Special Effects:
  Georges Iaconelli (special effects)
  Cliff Richardson (special effects)
  John Richardson (II) (special effects)
  Wally Veevers (visual effects)

Make-Up:
  Pierre Berroyer (makeup artist)
  Marc Ludovic Paris (hair stylist) (as Marc Paris)
  Barbara Ritchie (hair stylist)

Complete Cast: (credits order)
  Edward Fox ........................ The Jackal
  Terence Alexander (I) ............. Lloyd
  Michel Auclair .................... Colonel Rolland
  Alan Badel ........................ The Minister
  Tony Britton ...................... Inspector Thomas
  Denis Carey (I) ................... Casson
  Adrien Cayla-Legrand .............. The President (De Gaulle)
  Cyril Cusack ...................... The Gunsmith
  Maurice Denham .................... General Colbert
  Vernon Dobtcheff .................. The Interrogator
  Jacques François .................. Pascal
  Olga Georges-Picot ................ Denise
  Raymond Gérome .................... Flavigny
  Barrie Ingham ..................... St. Clair
  Derek Jacobi ...................... Caron
  Michel Lonsdale ................... Detective Lebel
  Jean Martin (I) ................... Wolenski
  Ronald Pickup ..................... The Forger
  Eric Porter (I) ................... Colonel Rodin
  Anton Rodgers ..................... Bernard
  Delphine Seyrig ................... Colette de Montpelier
  Donald Sinden ..................... Mallinson
  Jean Sorel ........................ Bastien-Thiry
  David Swift (I) ................... Montclair
  Timothy West ...................... Berthier
  Bernard Archard
  Jacques Alric
  Colette Bergé
  Edmond Bernard
  Gérard Buhr
  Philippe Léotard .................. Gendarme
  Maurice Teynac
  Van Doude
  Nicolas Vogel

Remainder of Cast: (alphabetical order)
  Edward Hardwicke (uncredited)

Miscellaneous:
  René Albouze (property master)
  Ernest Archer (set designer)
  Robert Cartwright (set dresser)
  Pierre Charron (set dresser)
  Guy Delattre (photographer: second unit)
  André Domage (camera operator)
  Marcel Durham (assistant editor)
  Gladys Goldsmith (continuity)
  David Harcourt (I) (camera operator)
  Wally Hill (property master)
  Willy Holt (set designer)
  Catherine Prévert (continuity)
  John Rosenberg (V) (script editor)
  Edmond Séchan (photographer: second unit)
  Jean Zay (costume supervisor)

Movie Links:
  (remade as Jackal, The (1997))
  (referenced in Blame It on the Bellboy (1992))
  (referenced in Slight Case of Murder, A (1999) (TV))
  (spoofed in Mirror Crack'd, The (1980))

Trivia:
 - 'Fox, Edward' (qv) was cast as the Jackal after director
  'Zinnemann, Fred' (qv) was inpressed with him in
  _Go-Between, The (1971)_ (qv).

Literature:
  Novel:
    Forsyth, Frederick. Day of the Jackal, The

  Critics:
    Pope, Thomas.  Good Scripts, Bad Scripts: Learning the Craft
     of Screenwriting Through 25 of the Best and Worst Films in
     History.  New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998.  ISBN 0609801198


Business Info:
  Box Office Gross:
    SEK 1,959,165 (Sweden)

  Admissions:
    146,392 (Sweden)

  Studio:
    Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey (UK)

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