Posted on 02/02/2025 9:08:42 AM PST by hardspunned
Based on Frederick Forsyth's best-selling novel of political intrigue, The Day of the Jackal, tells of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of Jackal (Edward Fox), relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. The tension mounts as the methodical preparations of the Jackal are paralleled with the efforts of the police to uncover the plot, which gives the story non-stop, edge-of-your-seat suspense.
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Mars Attacks (Tim Burton) is also free on YouTube.
Good movie. Hard to find on TV reruns.
Great movie. The French crack me up.
Despicable that they just re-did this with a Black female as the hero.
IIRC, doesn’t the assassin use a .22 LR cartridge to try the shot?
Unless at very close range, that choice for a shooter that would only get one shot seemed chancy.
Are you kidding me? Was de Gaulle trans in the remake?
That’s the cult of wokism for you.
It’s been almost fifty years since I saw the movie. I really can’t recall but the way the rifle was hidden seems as though a smaller caliber would be required.
I’ve wanted to rewatch this movie for years and will tonight.
The book was great. Neither of the movies really lived up to it.
Thanks for posting. Great movie…bought the book (and most of his books.)
Last summer’s “Jackal” was the still unidentified DEI Secret Service agent in charge that fateful day in Butler. “She” blew it somehow after a perfect set up.
I’ve been waiting to see this again for decades. I’m that cheap! Another that I can’t find for free is “Is Paris Burning?”.
FABULOUS BOOK!
You CANNOT be serious!! That FUGLY BLACK GIRL was going to be the next James Bond?? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA....what a bad joke.
They looked like .22 to me. But they were explosive rounds (involving mercury somehow I think). It disassembled into a walking stick. The scene where he sights it in with a watermelon is unforgettable.
The movie is highly fictionalized because Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (AKA Carlos the Jackal) was a terrorism coordinator and broker but never himself took place in the acts.
He still was nasty piece of work, born to be a Marxist because his father (a Marxist lawyer) named him after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. He also gave Carlos’ younger brothers the Christian names Vladimir and Lenin.
Another similar movie I liked was “Nighthawks”, with Sylvester Stallone and Rutger Hauer.
“The book was great.”
Amen.
It’s now de rigueur in H’wood. Cue Hispanics next.
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