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The Day of the Jackal. 1973. UK. Directed by Fred Zinneman. Image courtesy of Photofest

The Day of the Jackal. 1973. USA. Directed by Fred Zinneman. Screenplay by Kenneth Ross, based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth. With Edward Fox, Alan Bladel, Tony Britton. DCP. 142 min.

Fred Zinneman’s 1973 political thriller blends fact (the attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle in August 1962) and fiction (the creation of an unstoppable international assassin known only as The Jackal) to produce a compelling international procedural. Steven Spielberg was so taken with Michael Lonsdale’s performance as the police commissioner tasked with tracking down the Jackal that he cast him as Papa, the head of a family of mercenary informants, in Munich.

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