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The Day of the Jackal

by Fred Zinnemann

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  • OAS plots against Charles de Gaulle

An assassin is hired by the OAS, the French paramilitary group that really tried to kill de Gaulle over Algerian independence.

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The Day of the Jackal

Based on the 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963. It stars Edward Fox as the title character, with Michael Lonsdale, Derek Jacobi, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Donald Sinden, Tony Britton, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham and Delphine Seyrig. The musical score was composed by Georges Delerue.

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