The Day of the Jackal Nameless, faceless... relentlessly moving towards the date with death that would rock the world.

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.

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Action
Thriller
Release Date

May 16, 1973

Duration: 2h 23 min

Popularity: 10.3437
611 votes
Directed by

Fred Zinnemann

Casting: Margot Capelier, Jenia Reissar

Screenplay by

Kenneth Ross

Productions

Universal Productions France (FR)Warwick Film Productions (GB)John Woolf Productions (GB)

Budget

16.1 M

Top Cast

Crew & Team

Fred Zinnemann

Director

Gladys Goldsmith

Script Supervisor

Catherine Prévert

Script Supervisor

Andrew Marton

Second Unit Director

Louis Pitzele

Assistant Director

Peter Price

Assistant Director

Alain Bonnot

Assistant Director

Gladys Goldsmith

Continuity

Catherine Prévert

Continuity

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