The Day of the Jackal [Blu-ray]

Director: Fred Zinnemann Fred Zinnemann

Overview

Based on Frederick Forsyth's suspenseful best-seller, this nail-biting thriller chronicles a wily hit man's attempts to assassinate General Charles de Gaulle.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/25/2018
UPC:	0760137149583
Original Release:	1973
Source:	Arrow Video
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	2:23:00
Sales rank:	4,741

Special Features

New interview with Neil Sinyard, author of Fred Zinnemann: Films of Character and Sonscience; Two rare archival clips from the film set, including an interview with Fred Zinnemann; Original screenplay by Kenneth Ros (BD-ROM content); Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Terence Alexander	Lloyd,Lloyd
Michel Auclair	Colonel Rolland
Alan Badel	the Minister
Tony Britton	Inspector Thomas
Denis Cary	Casson
Cyril Cusack	Gunsmith
Maurice Denham	General Colbert
Michaël Lonsdale	Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
Vernon Dobtchev	Interrogator
Jacques François	Pascal
Olga Georges-Picot	Denise
Raymond Gérôme	Flavigny
Barrie Ingham	St. Clair
Delphine Seyrig	Colette de Montpellier
Derek Jacob	Inspector Caron
Jean Martin	Victor Wolenski
Ronald Pickup	The Forger
Eric Porter	Colonel Rodin
Anton Rodgers	Jules Bernard
Adrien Cayla-Legrand	Charles de Gaulle
Donald Sinden	Mallinson
Jean Sorell	Jean Bastien-Thiry
David Swift	Montclair
Timothy West	Commissioner Berthier
Bernard Archard	Detective Hughes
Jacques Alric	French Detective
Colette Bergé	Lebel's Wife
Edmond Bernard	Colonel Rolland's Assistant
Gérard Buhr	Gendarme on Telephone
Philippe Léotard	Gendarme
Maurice Teynac	Bastien-Thiery's Lawyer
Van Doude	Military Officer
Nicolas Vogel	OAS Agent
Féodor Atkine	Young OAS Gunfighter
Albert Augier	Policeman in Hotel
Madeleine Barbulée	Hotel Guest
Jacques Brunet	OAS Terrorist in Car
Raoul Curet	Hotel Waiter
Madeleine Damien	Ernestine
Yvonne Dany	Turkish Bath Desk Clerk
Nicole Desailly	Yvonne De Gaulle
Max Faulkner	Special Branch Detective
Robert Favart	Minister
Andréa Ferréol	Hotel Staff
Edward Hardwicke	Actor
Jean Sorel	Actor
Jacques Hilling	Hotel Desk Clerk
David Kernan	Per Lundquist
Robert Le Béal	Secretary at Elysée Palace
Roger Lumont	Passport Control Officer
Mike Marshall	Gendarme at Tulle
Jean Michaud	Cabinet Member
Bernard Musson	Usher at Elysée Palace
André Penvern	Policeman at Tulle Station
Pierre Risch	Michel, Colette's Gardener
Liliane Rovère	Hotel Chambermaid
Bernard Spiegel	Groom
Guy Standeven	Police Constable
Michel Subor	OAS Terrorist in Car
François Valorbe	Valmy, OAS Contract
Howard Vernon	Cabinet Member
Nicholas Young	Passport Officer
Georges Delerue	Composer

Technical Credits

Kenneth Ross

Cliff John Richardson	Special Effects
Fred Zinnemann	Director
John Woolf	Producer
Robert Allen	Sound/Sound Designer
Gordon McCallum	Sound/Sound Designer
Julien Derode	Producer
David Deutsch	Producer
Kenneth Ross	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Considered one of the superior 1960s/1970s spy thrillers, Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's bestseller combined an eye for stylish European locales with a chillingly detailed account of an assassin's mission to kill French president Charles de Gaulle. Cross-cutting between the Jackal's preparations and Inspector Lebel's efforts to find the phantom killer before the crime occurs, Day of the Jackal gains power by focusing on the two opposite jobs at hand rather than indulging in either psychology or gratuitous violence. Devoid of politics and past, Edward Fox's blond killer embodies the phrase "hired gun"; he may be charming and keenly clever, but he is ominously professional about his work. Still, the question of whether he will succeed becomes as enthralling as whether Lebel will get him; the ending's sense of random yet pervasive menace was made all the more timely by the contemporary rash of assassinations. The location photography and the Jackal's lethal cool more than made up for complaints about plot holes. The film was loosely remade in 1997 as the more flashy and violent The Jackal.