The Day of the Jackal (1973) - IMDb The Day of the Jackal: Directed by Fred Zinnemann With Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel In the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle
The Day of the Jackal (1973) - Plot - IMDb The remaining OAS leadership decides to make another attempt and hires a professional British assassin who chooses the code name The Jackal (Edward Fox) He demands half a million US dollars for his services, so to raise the Jackal's fee, OAS members rob several banks
The Day of the Jackal (TV Series 2024– ) - IMDb The Day of the Jackal: Created by Ronan Bennett With Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Eleanor Matsuura, Chukwudi Iwuji The Jackal is an elusive assassin who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee He soon meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who tracks him down in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe
The Jackal (1997) - IMDb The Jackal: Directed by Michael Caton-Jones With Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora An imprisoned I R A fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job
The Jackal (1997) - User reviews - IMDb Unrecognisable from THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, of course, and not a patch on it, but serviceable enough for a late 1990s suspense action thriller You can tell Willis is really enjoying something other than his jaded action star role and the Jack Black scene is worth the price of admission alone
The Day of the Jackal (1973) - Trivia - IMDb Director Fred Zinnemann wanted the Jackal to be played by someone anonymous and indistinct, so he cast the relatively unknown Edward Fox He later admitted that may have led to the film's lack success in theaters