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The Day of the Jackal

Duration: 2 hours, 21 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 12^th Nov 2006, 23:25 on BBC One SouthLatest broadcast: Tue 21^st Aug 2007, 23:20 on BBC One London

Fast-paced thriller based on Frederick Forsyth's best-selling novel about a professional hit man hired by the OAS to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle. When the plot is discovered, a Paris detective is faced with a desperate race to stop him. Show less

Contributors

Actor:: Edward Fox
Actor:: Michael Lonsdale
Actor:: Michel Auclair
Actor:: Alan Badel
Actor:: Tony Britton
Actor:: Cyril Cusack
Director:: Fred Zinnemann
Colonel Rodin:: Eric Porter
Actor:: Terence Alexander
Actor:: Delphine Seyrig
The Interrogator:: Vernon Dobtcheff
General Colbert:: Maurice Denham
The Forger:: Ronald Pickup
Caron:: Derek Jacobi
Berthier:: Timothy West
Montclair:: David Swift
Mallinson:: Donald Sinden

Genres

DramaThriller

Formats

Films

Source: BBC Online

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