Episode 664: Day of the Jackal (1973)

The Projection Booth

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

We wrap up a month of requests… and the year 2023… with a look at Fred Zinnemann’s The Day of the Jackal. Based on the book by Frederick Forsyth, the film stars Edward Fox as the titular Jackal, an assassin as cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce. He’s hired by members of the OAS, a holdout group of paramilitary terrorist organization who were holdouts who tried to keep Algeria a French colony. They hire The Jackal to assassinate president Charles de Gaulle in August, 1962.

Ian Brownell and Rich Edwards join Mike to discuss Zinneman''s film and the 1997 remake with Bruce Willis and Richard Gere, The Jackal.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off. The This was the sixth attempt on the life of President de Gaulle.
1:04.0	In desperation, the OAS terrorists hired a professional killer.
1:08.0	His code name, the Jackal. This is a once in a lifetime job.
1:12.6	Whoever does it can never work again.
1:14.6	How much do you want? Half a million.
1:15.6	What?
1:16.6	In cash. I'd like to know how you expect us to find half a million dollars so quickly.
1:19.6	A desperate plan. Nothing left to chance.
1:26.6	Every chilling detail. Time to the second.
1:32.3	How do you stop the jackal? How do you stop the clock?
1:37.3	Commissioner Bertier, we're in trouble on this one, since not even the OAS know who he is.
1:41.3	Action service can't destroy him.
1:43.3	Territorial surveillance can't pick him up at the border
1:46.0	because they don't know what he looks like.
1:48.0	An unparalleled manhunt, a determined and relentless killer.
1:52.0	Impossible to know.
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