What is The Day of the Jackal (movie)?
{{italictitle}} '''''The Day of the Jackal''''' is a 1973 British-French thriller movie directed by [[Fred Zinnemann]]. It starred [[Edward Fox]], [[Michael Lonsdale|Michel Lonsdale]], [[Jean Sorel]], [[Timothy West]], [[Derek Jacobi]], [[Tony Britton]], [[Barrie Ingham]] and [[Donald Sinden]]. It was based on the 1971 novel ''[[The Day of the Jackal]]'' by [[Frederick Forsyth]]. The movie is about a professional assassin who is hired to assassinate French president [[Charles de Gaulle]] in the summer of 1963. In the movie, the assassin is only known as ''the Jackal''. ''The Day of the Jackal'' won the [[BAFTA Award for Best Editing]] and earned five additional more BAFTA nominations, two [[Golden Globe]] Award nominations, and one [[Academy Award]] nomination. The movie made $16,056,255 at the box office. The [[British Film Institute]] ranked it the [[BFI Top 100 British films|74th greatest British movies of the 20th century]].<ref>[http://www.cinemarealm.com/best-of-cinema/top-100-british-films/ ''British Film Institute - Top 100 British Films''] (1999). Retrieved 27 October 2017</ref> In 1988, the same plot inspired the Malayalam movie ''[[August 1 (movie)|August 1]]''. ''The Day of the Jackal'' film was later loosely remade as ''The Jackal'', a 1997 movie featuring [[Richard Gere]], [[Bruce Willis]], [[Sidney Poitier]] and [[Jack Black]]. == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Day Of The Jackal}} [[Category:1973 thriller movies]] [[Category:British thriller movies]] [[Category:French thriller movies]] [[Category:Movies based on books]] [[Category:Movies based on real life events]] [[Category:Movies about assassinations]] [[Category:Movies directed by Fred Zinnemann]] [[Category:Political movies]] {{-}} {{movie-stub}}