The Day of the Jackal
(1973)
Director:
Fred Zinnemann
Writer:
Frederick Forsyth, Kenneth Ross, John Rosenberg
Cast:
Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair
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.