An excellent picture! Fox was chilling as the Jackal. Lonsdale as Claude Lebel perfectly portrayed the Jackal's nemesis. The cast is uniformly superb. Fred Zinnemann and his company were allowed unprecedented access behind police lines during the finale. The entire film is a tour de force!
I hadn’t watched this for years so last Sunday I sat down on the sofa, plugged in my iPad and for the next 2 and half hours I was thoroughly entertained. What a great movie. I cant believe its 50 years old. It’s so much better than today’s “action” movies. The tension was sustained throughout the movie.
Weak story.. There is no way the female agent would ever have used the phone in the minister's apartment.. She would know it was tapped.. Why after he was told that " the jackal is blown". .. Did he go and stay in a hotel..
@@alancassell566 How would she know it was tapped? The Ministers didnt know, and were surprised by the news. This is 60+ years ago- tapping phones then was NOT normal or easy, and there are (theoretically even today) serious legal issues with tapping a government officials' phone. As to the hotel, he had to sleep somewhere, and he used a different ID iirc. The person who exposed his existance had no information whatsoever on the identities he was using.
I saw this when ,it came out, at a Drive-in theater. I was 12 years old and loved the details of both; the Jackal's planning and the investigation closing in on his heels.
A wonderful film from an excellent book. These are great scenes, but a terrible agony for the car geek: Fiat 850 (several shots), Renault 6, Peugeot 504, late-model DS, R12 break.... Too many to list. But.... It is shot in Paris and that is life.... For all the cars from a later era, it is a splendid film. Well acted. Well written. Beautifully shot.
I also spotted the white 850. My father bought a red one in the 70s. We kids sat in the back, the little four-inline engine behind us. Curb weight was only 650 kg!
@@trespire Yes, they managed to get a "ministerial line-up" of early DS with round headlights - but as the camera follows the one through Paris, you can see it has far more dings and dents than a newish government car would have had
Yes they are. Back then I wasn't big into foreign cars but I've changed my tastes since then. I really like the Jackal's Alfa Romeo. A good number of them were imported to the USA back in the '60s.
I worked with a guy in the 60's who had owned a Renault dealership in Algeria and lost everything when de Gaulle gave Algeria its independence. He hated him with a passion as did a lot of French from Algeria. Ironically 30 years later I was living in Paris and was invited to an award ceremony for resistance fighters and was shocked when I saw de Gaulle in the group, even though he died in 1970. Turns out it was his son who was an admiral in the French navy and was a spitting image of his father.
French tea plantations in Algeria got the "tule" fog for moisture much like the San J. valley in Calif. BUT when Algeria got it's "independence" the "pied noir" French who owned the farms were marched down to barges at gun point with little but the clothes on their backs. One family I knew in Canada: she now works for the UN, but her parents never had nice things again. Her sister visited the plantation and there were Muslim families living the the shade of the walls left, but GONE was the running water, electricity, all the infrastructure. It 's a lot easier to destroy than to BUILD. No wonder Algerian Frenchmen were so pissed. Most kept some money in France, Spain, or Italy so most didn't lose everything, but.......
@@thedwightguy A story repeated all over the world when people who had been brought out of tribalism by Europeans decided they knew better how to run things. Happening as we speak in S. Africa which was a beautiful country rich in farms, Capetown was called the Paris of Africa.
There is silver lining in this though.. Europe better stay out from other countries. Let them deal with their own problems until they no longer blame Europeans for their own mistakes again.
Yeah Condor is great. It's unfortunate that everything that Cliff Robertson tells Turner at the end is true. We'll get there eventually. Von Sydow is chilling in that! His dialogue is memorable when he tells Turner, "You have not much future there." He knows how useful Turner could be but can't convince him to take his advice. I love how he gives him his gun back too. "For that day." Great movie!
@@fredsmith3456 Never really got that picture. A government program is liquidated and as part of it they send in people to assassinate (murder) all of their own operatives? So, we're to believe that, in certain circumstances, when the CIA decides to cancel an operation, it can be both standard procedure and even legal to kill agents...even if they're American citizens? Our government's done some goofy things... but even that's a bit of a stretch, no?
We’ll put it down to either greed or the need to finish the job. He was so (emotionally) invested in the job. Not professionalism. A true professional would have called it off.
@@gregbowden1552 You were able (and permitted) to read, understand and write a report on a novel about espionage and the overthrow of the French government? LMFAO! In the fifth grade you read a book which included, among other things, the Jackal's affair and then murder of French socialite, robbery, forgery, money laundering, oral sex (where the the OAS female mole goes down on the member of the counter espionage team) and orgasm (where the mole's soldier boyfriend orders her to "vient! vient!")? 🤣 Man, you must have been a grade school kid wwwwwwaaaaayyy ahead of his time! 🤣🤣🤣 The Jackal also spends his last night in Paris posing as a homosexual, allowing himself to get picked up in a gay bar and then murdering his unknowing host! Don't get me wrong. I've nothing against this sort of content... But if memory serves, a fifth grader is 10 years old. You must've been one sophisticated little tyke! 🤣🤣🤣
The first scene of the book and movie really did take place in history: the attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle by the OAS, 22 August 1962. It was from there that the rest of the book was built on.
So did the final attempt. He was reviewing a parade, stood to attention, and a shot was fired, the round hit the ground. Later analysis indicated that he moved his head a millimetre or two, throwing the assasins aim off at that crucial moment when you have squeezed the trigger but the firing pin has not hit the percussion cap on the round. It was well documented at the time!
Frederick Forsyth was a correspdent in Paris when this happened. He befriended de Gaulle's bodyguards in the following car. He names them in the novel. Part of research for factual detail and realism that made the novel such a game changer.
I was about 13 when this movie made it to TV in about 76' I was a new Rocker when David Bowie's "Station to Station" came out along with the movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth." I mistakenly thought Edward Fox WAS David Bowie... So I really liked it. Found out latter Fox played the "Jackal" is a great actor as he was in this film. ( The remake was a toilet flusher)
La bastide de Tourtour.... Il quitte la frontière italienne et il se retrouve dans le Haut-Var en quelques secondes... Mon Dieu comment fait-il ? La magie du cinéma.... J'aimerais moi aussi avoir des raccourcis comme ça....
One of THE greatest thrillers of ALL-TIME. I don't know how this classic failed to get a nod from the AFI during it's 100 years compilation series. It was a worthy entry for: 100 years, 100 thrills 100 years, 100 heroes and villains- The Jackal(villain) 100 years, 100 movie quotes-"He wasn't Charles Harold Calthrop, he wasn't Paul Olivier Duggan, he wasn't even Kleist. Then who the hell was he ?" AFI Top 10- Mystery Film
The assassination attempt was an excellent scene and well done. The guys on the bikes did it perfectly going around the roadblock as it could have easily gone wrong. I remember in the '60s when those Citroens were imported into the States (ceased in 1974) There were a lot of them around. I love the Jackal's Alfa Romeo.
Ironically in the movie Scarface Sosa had one of his assassins plant a "device" under the journalist's car who bringing a lot of heat on him and his associates with his public accusations of major drug dealing. What was the journalist driving? A Citroën like the one in this film. That assassination attempt also failed. 🤣
@@muffs55mercury61 Very "France"-ish car. It looks weird, but can't be said as ugly too. Whenever I see one, I always think of "comfort". Really iconic that not only historically important (responsible for saving De Gaulle's life - great man and great car).. but also iconic, appear in many films. If I was a billionnaire, this car is a "must have" for my collection.
I have got this movie DVD of Edward Fox Michael Lonsdale Derek Jacobi Tony Britton and Donald Sinden in Day Of The Jackal I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters and I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxx
The 12 OAS men fired a total ( apparently) of 140 rounds. Two motorcycle police escorts were killed and all four tyres of the deese were blown out. Degaul and his lady wife managed to get down on the back seat low. Driver controlled the car out of a skid thanks to the suspension systems Citroen had developed. The car was doing 70 mph when the ambush occurred with the majority of rounds fired from behind.
@@gavincook4684 . You couldn’t be more wrong. There were four OAS men who fired 187 rounds of which 12 hit the car. They hit 2 tyres and no one was wounded or killed.
@Frank Fisher That is correct. It is a well known event amongst classic Citroen enthusiasts. Both tires on the same side were shot out. Any other "normal" car would have lost directional control, but not the DS. The DS has a unique suspention and steering geometry, with zero camber and zero castor. Unlike any other car ever built, it is completely unefected by pot holes or road surface condition. The car will not swerve to one side, nor will the driver loose control even if the front tire is flat. th-cam.com/video/O7AijogHtRc/w-d-xo.html When De'Gaulle's car was hit, the driver never lost control and actually accelarated to get away. Since that event, De'Gaulle refused to ride in any other car but a Citroen DS.
Charles de Gaulle was said "that he owed his life to the Citroën DS." He believed in the Citroën Corp. so much he intervened in the merger of Citroën and Fiat.... Citroën was then later bought up by French car maker, Peugeot.
They were called the DS (pronounced like Déesse, the French word for goddess). Its pioneering suspension, disc brakes and other features made it the most modern car of the 50s and 60s.
Long story short - France colonized Algeria...then The Algerian War 1954-62 ....Bitter Fighting... De Gaulle recognizes Algeria as a state in 59.' Ex-Military and F.F. Legion pulled from Algeria REALLY PISSED!!! The Jean Bastien-Thiry Group/French ex-military group plot to kill De Gaulle and fail... Algerian independence ratified 1962.
Large number of French ministers leave a building, then the boss leaves the building with his bodyguards in the second car. Spotter on a scooter spots, then phones the shooters about what route they are using, Gunmen and road blockers fail to stop or kill DeGaulle (Boss), then unconnected man in sports car is the killer hired to kill DeGaulle. Police pursue him as he changes identities, up until he stands by in a rooftop apartment over looking where DeGaulle will present medals to members of the resistance of WWII. The film was shot around 1973 and includes a lot of real footage of the preparation for and real parade and presentations of that year. A style that the director used earlier in his film 'Grand Prix', which used real races as the backdrop to a fictional story about Grand Prix racers and teams. It's like actors standing in front of a real rocket launch at Cape Canaveral.
I absolutely love this movie, but the part I do not understand is why Frederick Forsythe did not show The Jackal do any planning for his escape after the assassination. Ditto for The Fourth Protocol; nor does the Russian spy played by Pierce Brosnan engages in any planning for his escape after the bombing.
This movie is my all time top 10. Great movie with no real A-listers in it so to speak. This is imo a timeless classic broadly based on true events and demonstrates perfectly how far the French Republic were taking to protect deGaulle. Great performances from Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale.
Every single actor in this movie gave an excellent performance. They played well together with Edward Fox being the only ham, but his role demanded the level of arrogance he put forth. I dated a woman that looked so similar to the aristocratic French woman it startled me. Just a classic movie taken from a great novel that was based in fact. As were Forsyth's other books like The Odessa File and The Dogs of War.
EL DÍA DEL CHACAL; buen argumento, drama mucha energía, estupendo, locaciones, vestuario, coches, 1973 la subieran completa el filme, el buen espectador lo agradecería.
51 years, and still one the best ever of its genre… meanwhile, what does that suggest about the genre’s ’development’ .. that it’s NOT deepened in quality.
His real name was georges watin. A member of the oas. He died in south america in 1994. The only guy the police never could catch. He was tall and llmping so all the others, thought he would be caught first but he could escape. All the others got arrested. Some sentenced to death. Only the chief lieutenant colonel bastien thiry got executed by firing squad on 11 march 1963. A great man of honor.
Tension! That's what this movie has in spades. If you have never seen this movie, you owe it to yourself to watch it. The entire cast make this movie great. As you watch it the bits and pieces don't seem to add up. Then it all comes together and, well, you need to see it.
It goes fast through 3 hours and has real tension. I thought may be they could have cut some of the scenes at the end but the part when the jackal misses and they burst into the flat is brilliant. Zinneman was a master director
It was a brilliant film, the story was based around events involving assassination attempts on de Gaulle, including the scene where he moved his head at the crucial moment.
What is sad is that a movie like this couldn't be made now. The slow methodical pacing, thanks to studio execs who want a quick buck, is dead. It's all quick cut gun fights, with impossible odds, and a seemingly indestructible hero. One example is Roger Corman and his movie "The St. Valentines Day Massacre". It was Corman's first A-list big budget movie. And it's a great movie! But Corman later stated that studio execs interfered so much while the movie was being made, it almost drove Corman insane. As a result, he never made another big budget movie again.
Great movie, but aside from the main character in the white Alfa, this clip is just a bunch of random cars driving around. With a random shooting in the middle and random cops(?) jumping out of cars in different places. And a car crash. If we had seen the beginning of the movie, would we know what was going on?
The first clip is the beginning of the movie, hence the opening title and credits, but then there are clips from later in the film involving cars. But there are no car chases as such in the film. The first clip is a re-creation of a real event, the nearly successful assassination attempt on President de Gaulle. The film shows the assassins' lookout seeing de Gaulle leave the Élysée for the airport, notifying the assassins waiting in the suburb of Petit Clamart then getting on his motor scooter and following. This is intercut with shots of de Gaulle's car. But the clip doesn't show the whole scene from the film. Showing this real event at the beginning of the film sets up the fictional story that is the the main theme, a supposed plan by the OAS ("Secret Army Organisation"} to employ an unknown lone assassin to kill de Gaulle. De Gaulle had been brought out of retirement to avert a coup by members of the French armed forces who were opposed to giving Algeria independence. The military believed that de Gaulle would end the independence talks and crack down on the Algerian independence movement, and he let them believe this when in fact he had his own agenda, that of restoring France's greatness by introducing a new constitution, the one that is still in force today, that would give a stronger government while still being democratic. Although he was somewhat sympathetic to the French rule in Algeria, he realised that the issue would get in the way of restoring French influence in the modern world and he restored the independence talks. Members of the military were outraged by what they saw as his duplicity and began a campaign of terrorism and attempts to assassinate the president.
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So much better than the American copy. This has almost a documentary feel . Great film !
the book is even better.
Oh yes and it did not require a remake, specially a "Full on Woke" remake.
Simply outstanding movie. No debate on this. Edward Fox as jackal is mind blowing
Paris before the migrants!
@@iamgermaneI noticed that as well. Now practically the entire Europe is gone forever.
@@juiced0202how we know you haven’t actually been. But how could you, as just a disinformation bot?
An excellent picture! Fox was chilling as the Jackal. Lonsdale as Claude Lebel perfectly portrayed the Jackal's nemesis. The cast is uniformly superb. Fred Zinnemann and his company were allowed unprecedented access behind police lines during the finale. The entire film is a tour de force!
I loved that he was in "Ronin"
Another incredible movie
Lonsdale was a Bond baddy too if I'm not mistaken.
I hadn’t watched this for years so last Sunday I sat down on the sofa, plugged in my iPad and for the next 2 and half hours I was thoroughly entertained. What a great movie. I cant believe its 50 years old. It’s so much better than today’s “action” movies. The tension was sustained throughout the movie.
How can I watch this film? Please help
An excelente movie
Weak story.. There is no way the female agent would ever have used the phone in the minister's apartment.. She would know it was tapped..
Why after he was told that " the jackal is blown". .. Did he go and stay in a hotel..
I could watch it after a long time on ytube by rental
@@alancassell566 How would she know it was tapped? The Ministers didnt know, and were surprised by the news. This is 60+ years ago- tapping phones then was NOT normal or easy, and there are (theoretically even today) serious legal issues with tapping a government officials' phone.
As to the hotel, he had to sleep somewhere, and he used a different ID iirc. The person who exposed his existance had no information whatsoever on the identities he was using.
Absolutely as fresh today as fifty years ago. The tension is gripping and everyone was at the top of their game. ❤❤❤
I saw this when ,it came out, at a Drive-in theater. I was 12 years old and loved the details of both; the Jackal's planning and the investigation closing in on his heels.
I saw it in 1973. I was 13. It was so good I have remembered it all my life.
A wonderful film from an excellent book.
These are great scenes, but a terrible agony for the car geek:
Fiat 850 (several shots), Renault 6, Peugeot 504, late-model DS, R12 break.... Too many to list.
But.... It is shot in Paris and that is life....
For all the cars from a later era, it is a splendid film. Well acted. Well written. Beautifully shot.
I also spotted the white 850. My father bought a red one in the 70s. We kids sat in the back, the little four-inline engine behind us. Curb weight was only 650 kg!
Most of the ministerial "Usine" DS in all black, were the older 1st series, before the front end facelift.
@@trespire
Yes, they managed to get a "ministerial line-up" of early DS with round headlights - but as the camera follows the one through Paris, you can see it has far more dings and dents than a newish government car would have had
Alfa Romeo, too.
One of my favorite all-time movies!!
Those are real cool vintage cars!
Yes they are. Back then I wasn't big into foreign cars but I've changed my tastes since then. I really like the Jackal's Alfa Romeo. A good number of them were imported to the USA back in the '60s.
Of course. It is not Hollywood.
@@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 Hollywood films had great cars in 1973.
A wonderful automobile and with useful extras. Very comfortable to ride and drive.
Yes, but did you notice some of the historical mistakes? Some cars weren't yet on sale during the period that this film portrays - they are "too new"!
one of the greatest movie ever made.
I worked with a guy in the 60's who had owned a Renault dealership in Algeria and lost everything when de Gaulle gave Algeria its independence. He hated him with a passion as did a lot of French from Algeria. Ironically 30 years later I was living in Paris and was invited to an award ceremony for resistance fighters and was shocked when I saw de Gaulle in the group, even though he died in 1970. Turns out it was his son who was an admiral in the French navy and was a spitting image of his father.
French tea plantations in Algeria got the "tule" fog for moisture much like the San J. valley in Calif. BUT when Algeria got it's "independence" the "pied noir" French who owned the farms were marched down to barges at gun point with little but the clothes on their backs. One family I knew in Canada: she now works for the UN, but her parents never had nice things again. Her sister visited the plantation and there were Muslim families living the the shade of the walls left, but GONE was the running water, electricity, all the infrastructure. It 's a lot easier to destroy than to BUILD. No wonder Algerian Frenchmen were so pissed. Most kept some money in France, Spain, or Italy so most didn't lose everything, but.......
@@thedwightguy A story repeated all over the world when people who had been brought out of tribalism by Europeans decided they knew better how to run things. Happening as we speak in S. Africa which was a beautiful country rich in farms, Capetown was called the Paris of Africa.
There is silver lining in this though.. Europe better stay out from other countries. Let them deal with their own problems until they no longer blame Europeans for their own mistakes again.
@@Cyan_Nightingale Fact of life, without the west, most of these countries would slide back to where they were in the 18th century.
Maybe De Gaulle employed a double as Churchill is reputed to have done during WW II?That would have have foiled the Jackal, I guess?
Man do I love this movie. This and Three Days of the Condor are my favorites.
Yeah Condor is great. It's unfortunate that everything that Cliff Robertson tells Turner at the end is true. We'll get there eventually. Von Sydow is chilling in that! His dialogue is memorable when he tells Turner, "You have not much future there." He knows how useful Turner could be but can't convince him to take his advice. I love how he gives him his gun back too. "For that day." Great movie!
If you liked this film, you might want to try another one based on a Fredrick Forsyth novel, The Odessa File.
Yes with Jon Voight love that too.
Three days of the Condor was a first class film!
@@fredsmith3456 Never really got that picture. A government program is liquidated and as part of it they send in people to assassinate (murder) all of their own operatives? So, we're to believe that, in certain circumstances, when the CIA decides to cancel an operation, it can be both standard procedure and even legal to kill agents...even if they're American citizens? Our government's done some goofy things... but even that's a bit of a stretch, no?
Read the book in 1976 and saw the movie a few times - worth every minute!
Yes indeed absolutely lovely and so well designed
I always love that part where the Jackal knows he’s been blown and has to decide whether to continue at that crossroads. Decisions, decisions.
A moment of pride? professionalism? fatalism?
@@RideAcrossTheRiver500,000 dollars in the early 1960s was a lot of baguettes in those days
He had to finish it....@@RideAcrossTheRiver
@@stephennoble6348 He knew the OAS would come looking for him.
A memorable film, exciting to watch. The different car's used is fascinating.
it is probably the most authentic spy/assasin movie. loved the part when he still decides to proceed eventhough his cover is blown
We’ll put it down to either greed or the need to finish the job. He was so (emotionally) invested in the job. Not professionalism. A true professional would have called it off.
@me Me There are something called, “books”. And something called, “spy novels.” Perhaps you wanna Google them?
@me Me “Facts”? That’s such a strong word. I think I wrote a “response”. Or an opinion. There is no where I called those opinions, “facts”.
@me Me I gave my opinion.
It’s of course, not law 😂. If you don’t agree with it, great.
"Professionals have standards!"
my favorite movie of all time. i have seen it at least 20 times over 50 years, and it still gives me chills. absolute perfection in every way
Thank you for uploading this scenes! And thank you, Fred Zinnemann (RIP), for one of my favourite films!
Frederick Forsyth novels rock! Always compelling and always a brilliant, wholly unpredictable twist at the end.
I did a book report on Forsyths DOTJ in fith grade.
@@gregbowden1552 You were able (and permitted) to read, understand and write a report on a novel about espionage and the overthrow of the French government? LMFAO! In the fifth grade you read a book which included, among other things, the Jackal's affair and then murder of French socialite, robbery, forgery, money laundering, oral sex (where the the OAS female mole goes down on the member of the counter espionage team) and orgasm (where the mole's soldier boyfriend orders her to "vient! vient!")? 🤣 Man, you must have been a grade school kid wwwwwwaaaaayyy ahead of his time! 🤣🤣🤣
The Jackal also spends his last night in Paris posing as a homosexual, allowing himself to get picked up in a gay bar and then murdering his unknowing host! Don't get me wrong. I've nothing against this sort of content... But if memory serves, a fifth grader is 10 years old. You must've been one sophisticated little tyke! 🤣🤣🤣
A great book 😊
@@gregbowden1552 You read Day of the Jackal in the 5th grade? You must've been a genius.
@arkady714 Yes I did. Fell in love with the book then later I was surprised when I watched the first movie on a late late night TV airing.
Remember seeing it on TV way back in the late 70's early 80's.
Great story by Frederick Forsythe made into a great film
The first scene of the book and movie really did take place in history: the attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle by the OAS, 22 August 1962. It was from there that the rest of the book was built on.
DeGaulle credited the sturdy design of the Citroen for saving his life. Poor OAS. Couldn’t keep Algeria and couldn’t assassinate DeGaulle
One of the best movies 😍😍😍
So did the final attempt. He was reviewing a parade, stood to attention, and a shot was fired, the round hit the ground. Later analysis indicated that he moved his head a millimetre or two, throwing the assasins aim off at that crucial moment when you have squeezed the trigger but the firing pin has not hit the percussion cap on the round. It was well documented at the time!
Frederick Forsyth was a correspdent in Paris when this happened. He befriended de Gaulle's bodyguards in the following car. He names them in the novel. Part of research for factual detail and realism that made the novel such a game changer.
@@johnned4848 I had forgotten that about Frederick Forsyth.
I was about 13 when this movie made it to TV in about 76' I was a new Rocker when David Bowie's "Station to Station" came out along with the movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth." I mistakenly thought Edward Fox WAS David Bowie... So I really liked it. Found out latter Fox played the "Jackal" is a great actor as he was in this film. ( The remake was a toilet flusher)
This film is a total masterpiece absolutely excellent unbelievablely unique
One the best movies of all time
Unquestionably
All time high
One of the best books too.
Agreed😊
I am fascinated by this snapshot of this period of time
The cars
The simple ID and identification booklets
Everything
Saw this 30 yrs ago. Can't imagine how the 1st (assassination) scene was made. Still enjoy this film after all these years.
La bastide de Tourtour.... Il quitte la frontière italienne et il se retrouve dans le Haut-Var en quelques secondes... Mon Dieu comment fait-il ? La magie du cinéma.... J'aimerais moi aussi avoir des raccourcis comme ça....
Brilliant book and film.
One of THE greatest thrillers of ALL-TIME. I don't know how this classic failed to get a nod from the AFI during it's 100 years compilation series. It was a worthy entry for:
100 years, 100 thrills
100 years, 100 heroes and villains- The Jackal(villain)
100 years, 100 movie quotes-"He wasn't Charles Harold Calthrop, he wasn't Paul Olivier Duggan, he wasn't even Kleist. Then who the hell was he ?"
AFI Top 10- Mystery Film
Could that it was UK/French production kept it off the AFI list? The A stands for American, so I would assume it was American films only.
@@Wailwulf is it so ? The greatest BRITISH films of all-time as per BFI, namely THE THIRD MAN, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO etc make it to the AFI compliation.
@@Timberwolf1992 My assumption could then be wrong.
I thought the Bruce Willis' version was superior
@@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1AvailableI can only assume you’re being a twat for fun
The assassination attempt was an excellent scene and well done. The guys on the bikes did it perfectly going around the roadblock as it could have easily gone wrong.
I remember in the '60s when those Citroens were imported into the States (ceased in 1974) There were a lot of them around.
I love the Jackal's Alfa Romeo.
Ironically in the movie Scarface Sosa had one of his assassins plant a "device" under the journalist's car who bringing a lot of heat on him and his associates with his public accusations of major drug dealing. What was the journalist driving? A Citroën like the one in this film. That assassination attempt also failed. 🤣
Citroen is so badass as presidential car. It literally saved De Gaulle's life.
@@Cyan_Nightingale There were quite a few around here in the US when I was a kid in the '60s. They were neat looking cars.
@@muffs55mercury61 Very "France"-ish car. It looks weird, but can't be said as ugly too. Whenever I see one, I always think of "comfort". Really iconic that not only historically important (responsible for saving De Gaulle's life - great man and great car).. but also iconic, appear in many films. If I was a billionnaire, this car is a "must have" for my collection.
@@Cyan_Nightingale The Citroen was larger than most European cars so that may be one reason they had some appeal here in the US.
I have got this movie DVD of
Edward Fox Michael Lonsdale
Derek Jacobi Tony Britton
and Donald Sinden in
Day Of The Jackal
I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters and I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxx
I think in the real attempt the DS was hit by 11 rounds of the hundreds fired, two tyres were shot out, it kept going. DeGaulle was impressed
The 12 OAS men fired a total ( apparently) of 140 rounds. Two motorcycle police escorts were killed and all four tyres of the deese were blown out. Degaul and his lady wife managed to get down on the back seat low. Driver controlled the car out of a skid thanks to the suspension systems Citroen had developed. The car was doing 70 mph when the ambush occurred with the majority of rounds fired from behind.
@@gavincook4684 . You couldn’t be more wrong. There were four OAS men who fired 187 rounds of which 12 hit the car. They hit 2 tyres and no one was wounded or killed.
@Frank Fisher That is correct. It is a well known event amongst classic Citroen enthusiasts.
Both tires on the same side were shot out. Any other "normal" car would have lost directional control, but not the DS.
The DS has a unique suspention and steering geometry, with zero camber and zero castor.
Unlike any other car ever built, it is completely unefected by pot holes or road surface condition. The car will not swerve to one side, nor will the driver loose control even if the front tire is flat.
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When De'Gaulle's car was hit, the driver never lost control and actually accelarated to get away.
Since that event, De'Gaulle refused to ride in any other car but a Citroen DS.
Charles de Gaulle was said "that he owed his life to the Citroën DS." He believed in the Citroën Corp. so much he intervened in the merger of Citroën and Fiat.... Citroën was then later bought up by French car maker, Peugeot.
I couldn't figure out what was going on, but those old Citroens are so cool.
They were called the DS (pronounced like Déesse, the French word for goddess). Its pioneering suspension, disc brakes and other features made it the most modern car of the 50s and 60s.
Long story short - France colonized Algeria...then The Algerian War 1954-62 ....Bitter Fighting... De Gaulle recognizes Algeria as a state in 59.' Ex-Military and F.F. Legion pulled from Algeria REALLY PISSED!!! The Jean Bastien-Thiry Group/French ex-military group plot to kill De Gaulle and fail... Algerian independence ratified 1962.
Large number of French ministers leave a building, then the boss leaves the building with his bodyguards in the second car.
Spotter on a scooter spots, then phones the shooters about what route they are using, Gunmen and road blockers fail to stop or kill DeGaulle (Boss), then unconnected man in sports car is the killer hired to kill DeGaulle.
Police pursue him as he changes identities, up until he stands by in a rooftop apartment over looking where DeGaulle will present medals to members of the resistance of WWII.
The film was shot around 1973 and includes a lot of real footage of the preparation for and real parade and presentations of that year.
A style that the director used earlier in his film 'Grand Prix', which used real races as the backdrop to a fictional story about Grand Prix racers and teams.
It's like actors standing in front of a real rocket launch at Cape Canaveral.
@@stevetheduck1425 Great Info!... I think the documentary style was great... I also liked 'Grand Prix!" along with "Le Mans."
Still a superior thriller perfect in all aspects
Could have won Best Picture of 1973, it was every bit as good as The Sting.
Love the old cars!
I absolutely love this movie, but the part I do not understand is why Frederick Forsythe did not show The Jackal do any planning for his escape after the assassination. Ditto for The Fourth Protocol; nor does the Russian spy played by Pierce Brosnan engages in any planning for his escape after the bombing.
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L'histoire raconte que celui qui a agité le journal pour le signal s'appelait VGE!
This movie is my all time top 10. Great movie with no real A-listers in it so to speak.
This is imo a timeless classic broadly based on true events and demonstrates perfectly how far the French Republic were taking to protect deGaulle.
Great performances from Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale.
Extremely unique absolutely excellent
There are many reasons to watch this great film and the Citreon DS is only one of them.
An absolute classic fox is brill!
You can't make a movie better. This movie puts all so called modern movies with digital technologies to shame.
Every single actor in this movie gave an excellent performance. They played well together with Edward Fox being the only ham, but his role demanded the level of arrogance he put forth. I dated a woman that looked so similar to the aristocratic French woman it startled me. Just a classic movie taken from a great novel that was based in fact. As were Forsyth's other books like The Odessa File and The Dogs of War.
Thanks for this , I must get the dvd, always was interested but even more so these days as I'm in love with Paris xx
No remake can reach this level of perfection. It makes you believe De Gaulle could possibly die in the end.
EL DÍA DEL CHACAL; buen argumento, drama mucha energía, estupendo, locaciones, vestuario, coches, 1973 la subieran completa el filme, el buen espectador lo agradecería.
Great film... an added bonus: the HQ image and sound. 😎
I liked the part when the motor vehicles drove through Europe.
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oh man i saw that back in the day . great film
Watched this movie on VHS back in the day.
I watched it in the theater back in the day. Amazing movie.
51 years, and still one the best ever of its genre… meanwhile, what does that suggest about the genre’s ’development’ .. that it’s NOT deepened in quality.
Just love those Citroen sedans at the beginning. That Spider ain’t half bad either.
The Parisian scenes may be early 70s and not early 60s, but it's just as I remember it. Great film.
Great film to be rembered fo long time
Edward Fox - the best !
Edward Fox =James Bond .Better when George Lazenby and Timothy Dalton. I am German. Sorry for my English. I hope you know what i mean.
His real name was georges watin. A member of the oas. He died in south america in 1994. The only guy the police never could catch. He was tall and llmping so all the others, thought he would be caught first but he could escape.
All the others got arrested. Some sentenced to death. Only the chief lieutenant colonel bastien thiry got executed by firing squad on 11 march 1963. A great man of honor.
A truly classic great movie
Master detective
Chasing
Master assasin
Tension! That's what this movie has in spades. If you have never seen this movie, you owe it to yourself to watch it. The entire cast make this movie great. As you watch it the bits and pieces don't seem to add up. Then it all comes together and, well, you need to see it.
It goes fast through 3 hours and has real tension. I thought may be they could have cut some of the scenes at the end but the part when the jackal misses and they burst into the flat is brilliant.
Zinneman was a master director
He needs to change gears
In my top five movies, books great too!
It was a brilliant film, the story was based around events involving assassination attempts on de Gaulle, including the scene where he moved his head at the crucial moment.
Just a random choice of scenes involving cars - or were there other criteria of choice?
The movie is good, but what is this video for?
Black Citroen - classic
Wow, such exciting pacing!
If there was a car chase in there then I must have missed it.
El libro debe ser muy interesante, llevado a la pantalla es uno de los mejores filmes en su genero.
So nice to see the Paris & wider France of 1972/3.
Great...book....perfect....film
This was based on a real live incident, after which de gaulle would only use citroens.
Interesting movie, pity in a novel are some crucial, unlogical mistakes... Ignoring of fingerprints etc...
Always thought those cars were never sure what they wanted to be.
So much better than its bloated, lumbering American remake- it has true style just like the original Italian Job which had a duff remake too
Gostaria que disponibilizasse esse grande filme, integralmente
And its a special tribute to a special car - the Citroen "Goddess" DS
Zinnermann the director won 4 Academy Awards for his movies. Can you tell? lol
Well deserved. By the time this was made he'd been in the business for like 30 years.
What is sad is that a movie like this couldn't be made now. The slow methodical pacing, thanks to studio execs who want a quick buck, is dead. It's all quick cut gun fights, with impossible odds, and a seemingly indestructible hero. One example is Roger Corman and his movie "The St. Valentines Day Massacre". It was Corman's first A-list big budget movie. And it's a great movie! But Corman later stated that studio execs interfered so much while the movie was being made, it almost drove Corman insane. As a result, he never made another big budget movie again.
I always wince when that guy smacks the rear of the scooter on the gutter.
He pulls a wheelie too right after!
I remember watching this movie at age 11.. .. my impression ? Don't mess with underground assassin's ! * Bang!!
Oh those Citroën DS!
This particular assassination attempt was carefully studied and the job in '63 had none of the defects in this one.
The dialog is riveting. I just wish there were subtitles.
You don't need stupid dialogs when a Citroën Ds stars...
An FN 24/29 LMG, a Thompson SMG and an MP-40, and he still managed to get away….
I Can See that This Movie Spawned Several Movies a Scene Here and There .
_The Fugitive_ with Harrison Ford.
Just some cars running around here and there
Read the book.
Que buena peli de las mejores .de diez.
@Hugo Ibanez I saw whet you did there, " de diez " and " the DS ".
This is so heavily edited that it barely makes any sense. Just watch the movie.
It’s a montage of all the car scenes in the film.
Great picture
THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO GO ABOUT THESE SERIOUS ACTIVITIES. ONLY THE BEST OF THE BEST CAN DO THESE THINGS. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE SWEDEN.
On a trip to south of France a few years back we saw faded old OAS graffiti in a number of locations...
Great movie, but aside from the main character in the white Alfa, this clip is just a bunch of random cars driving around. With a random shooting in the middle and random cops(?) jumping out of cars in different places.
And a car crash.
If we had seen the beginning of the movie, would we know what was going on?
The first clip is the beginning of the movie, hence the opening title and credits, but then there are clips from later in the film involving cars. But there are no car chases as such in the film. The first clip is a re-creation of a real event, the nearly successful assassination attempt on President de Gaulle. The film shows the assassins' lookout seeing de Gaulle leave the Élysée for the airport, notifying the assassins waiting in the suburb of Petit Clamart then getting on his motor scooter and following. This is intercut with shots of de Gaulle's car. But the clip doesn't show the whole scene from the film. Showing this real event at the beginning of the film sets up the fictional story that is the the main theme, a supposed plan by the OAS ("Secret Army Organisation"} to employ an unknown lone assassin to kill de Gaulle.
De Gaulle had been brought out of retirement to avert a coup by members of the French armed forces who were opposed to giving Algeria independence. The military believed that de Gaulle would end the independence talks and crack down on the Algerian independence movement, and he let them believe this when in fact he had his own agenda, that of restoring France's greatness by introducing a new constitution, the one that is still in force today, that would give a stronger government while still being democratic. Although he was somewhat sympathetic to the French rule in Algeria, he realised that the issue would get in the way of restoring French influence in the modern world and he restored the independence talks. Members of the military were outraged by what they saw as his duplicity and began a campaign of terrorism and attempts to assassinate the president.
A wonderful movie.
Might have known there'd be another Brit coming in the opposite direction, one that's forgotten to drive on the right😧