Suspenseful thriller, dramatised from the novel by Frederick Forsyth , with a masterly central performance from Edward Fox. 1963: having failed in its attempt to murder General de Gaulle, the hard-line French Secret Army Organisation decides to hire a top professional killer to do the job property. Code-named the "Jackal", the seemingly unassuming
Englishman begins to lay his intricate plans to assassinate one of the world's most powerful men. Review page 48.
Director Fred Zinnemann (1973, 15)