Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
- assassin
- assassination
- france
- paris
- france
- based on novel or book
- police
- hitman
- traitor
- castle
- fake identity
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Tony Britton — Inspector Thomas
- Denis Carey — Casson
- Cyril Cusack — Gunsmith
- Maurice Denham — General Colbert
- Michael Lonsdale — Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
- Vernon Dobtcheff — Interrogator
- Jacques François — Pascal
- Olga Georges-Picot — Denise
- Raymond Gérôme — Flavigny
- Barrie Ingham — St. Clair
- Delphine Seyrig — Colette de Montpellier
- Directed
- Fred Zinnemann
- Written
- Kenneth Ross
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 707 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Productions France, Warwick Film Productions, John Woolf Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
