The choice of George Sewell is inspired. Mendel in the BBC's adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and his stint in Special Branch puts him firmly in the right place. Then there's all those appearances in The Sweeney and UFO.
Even at a slower reading speed, this ""seriously abridged"" version of a WONDERFULLY, WELL RESEARCHED novel, was way too fast for me to assimilate. Now to surf/search the streamed movie which I saw many a time... many a year ago.!!! Thanx anyway.❤
Read the book a long time ago and have seen the film several times. Sewell is a great choice for this and agree he does sound a bit like Forsyth. If this is the full book and not abridged then it appears to omit how they got from Calthrop to Duggan. In the film the police compare child deaths at Somerset House with recently issued passport records. All we have in this reading is Lebel taking a call from Scotland Yard and then saying they are looking for Duggan. Will have to re-read the book.
The Day of the Jackal (1971), a thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth, follows an unnamed English assassin hired by a French paramilitary terrorist organization called the OAS to kill France’s President, Charles de Gaulle.
I’m not too keen on remakes of movies just because they’ll put more $$$ in someone’s bank account. But I’ll admit that I have watched some remakes that do improve on the original and enjoyed them. The sequel to the original Bladerunner movie is typical of a movie that shouldn’t have been made, Bladerunner is a movie that could never be followed by a sequel. But this novel, DayOf The Jackal, screams out to be made into a movie again! The original movie of this novel is one of my all time favourites, but the remake that was released left me completely cold and unimpressed. I for one would be among those going to the cinema to see how good yet another movie version of Day Of The Jackal was handled by its producers. I can’t suggest a present day actor whom I would like to see take on the role of the jackal but I can definitely say please don’t cast Tom Cruise as the jackal - because that would guarantee that I wouldn’t be spending any of my hard earned money going to watch it! Thorvald (pronounced Tourval, 25, Norwegian and currently living & working in the U.K..)
The Jackal, 1997, with Bruce Willis and Richard Gere (the really nice type IRA terrorist that Americans seem to believe in). It was terrible. Even worse than the remakes of The Italian Job and Get Carter. Which is saying something because they were two real stinkers. Did you watch STONEHOUSE, 2023? The guy copied the Jackal's method to get himself a second passport, in the name of someone with a similar DOB who had died very young. He then faked his death. And this guy had been an MP and even a Cabinet Minister in the Harold Wilson Labour Government (where he spied for the Czechoslovaks).
Are you watching the news series with Eddie Redmayne? Although its a different plot there many sympathetic nods to the original and I’m enjoying so far 👍🏻
The original Edward Fox movie is my all time favorite movie I seen it 5 times probably could watch it right now and love it just as much I'm watching remake series and are enjoying it lots probally because I'm a fan of the original and I like the star skinny English gentle man I seen him in Tess of the durbavilles
thanks George, nice work
Great voice of George Sewell
Excellent reading, absolute clarity. Well done.
Thank you from Amsterdam.
Wonderful reading. Thx!
Love this movie ❤❤ listen to this book every night for bed ❤thank you❤
Same brilliant movie great fir late night listening
Thanks for the upload DAA.
interestingly George Sewell's reading voice here sounds a lot like Fedrick Forsyth.
Pleasure OBWG. Its very similar indeed. Hope all is well. :)
Enjoyed that thanks.
The choice of George Sewell is inspired. Mendel in the BBC's adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and his stint in Special Branch puts him firmly in the right place. Then there's all those appearances in The Sweeney and UFO.
I swear everyone involved in the Search for Karla series was pure class.
Even at a slower reading speed, this ""seriously abridged"" version of a WONDERFULLY, WELL RESEARCHED novel, was way too fast for me to assimilate.
Now to surf/search the streamed movie which I saw many a time... many a year ago.!!!
Thanx anyway.❤
Read the book a long time ago and have seen the film several times. Sewell is a great choice for this and agree he does sound a bit like Forsyth. If this is the full book and not abridged then it appears to omit how they got from Calthrop to Duggan. In the film the police compare child deaths at Somerset House with recently issued passport records. All we have in this reading is Lebel taking a call from Scotland Yard and then saying they are looking for Duggan. Will have to re-read the book.
This is the abridged version. The only place I have found the whole book for free is on Internet Archive.
@@historian8214can you please share the web link? Unable to find it on the internet archive now
Do an audio book on ice breaker
The Day of the Jackal (1971), a thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth, follows an unnamed English assassin hired by a French paramilitary terrorist organization called the OAS to kill France’s President, Charles de Gaulle.
I’m not too keen on remakes of movies just because they’ll put more $$$ in someone’s bank account. But I’ll admit that I have watched some remakes that do improve on the original and enjoyed them. The sequel to the original Bladerunner movie is typical of a movie that shouldn’t have been made, Bladerunner is a movie that could never be followed by a sequel. But this novel, DayOf The Jackal, screams out to be made into a movie again! The original movie of this novel is one of my all time favourites, but the remake that was released left me completely cold and unimpressed. I for one would be among those going to the cinema to see how good yet another movie version of Day Of The Jackal was handled by its producers. I can’t suggest a present day actor whom I would like to see take on the role of the jackal but I can definitely say please don’t cast Tom Cruise as the jackal - because that would guarantee that I wouldn’t be spending any of my hard earned money going to watch it! Thorvald (pronounced Tourval, 25, Norwegian and currently living & working in the U.K..)
The Jackal, 1997, with Bruce Willis and Richard Gere (the really nice type IRA terrorist that Americans seem to believe in). It was terrible.
Even worse than the remakes of The Italian Job and Get Carter. Which is saying something because they were two real stinkers.
Did you watch STONEHOUSE, 2023? The guy copied the Jackal's method to get himself a second passport, in the name of someone with a similar DOB who had died very young.
He then faked his death. And this guy had been an MP and even a Cabinet Minister in the Harold Wilson Labour Government (where he spied for the Czechoslovaks).
Are you watching the news series with Eddie Redmayne? Although its a different plot there many sympathetic nods to the original and I’m enjoying so far 👍🏻
Have you got M.H.I s nothing could be further from the truth 🤮🤡
The original Edward Fox movie is my all time favorite movie I seen it 5 times probably could watch it right now and love it just as much I'm watching remake series and are enjoying it lots probally because I'm a fan of the original and I like the star skinny English gentle man I seen him in Tess of the durbavilles
We got Eddie Redmayne in a tv series
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He had written a book on a coup in Nigeria.what is its name?
The Biafra Story
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Sir George.