I mean, he couldn't. He had to line up everything perfectly to get through with one weapon, two would be almost impossible. And he wasn't supposed to miss...
Trump was lucky, like what was portrayed in this movie. Also, two motorcycle cops died while in the convoy carry Degaulle early in the movie in real life.
@@guyfawkesuThe1 Yep, when I heard about the attempt on July 13th, I automatically thought about this scene with Charles De Gaulle. Sometimes, luck is on your side.
Enjoyed the book and the film greatly as a young man. It is possibly the only magnificent work of fiction that has caused U.K. laws to be changed in that it showed in great detail how easy it was to obtain official documentation for what we would now call identity theft. The masterful ending, of course, being that we don't ever find out the Jackal's true identity! Writing at it's finest.
IN the Bruce Willis/Richard Gere remake, it has the same ending in that we never find out the Jackal's real Identity. Richard Gere just says he was Evil and he is dead now. In actuallity, at least for the Richard Gere remake- they could have used Fingerprints to try to find out what the Jackal actually was. They might have even used DNA analysis as well. But I guess the Richard Gere ending wanted to have a similiar ending to the Original.
The whole film builds up to this short but brutal climax, where The Jackal is gunned down. There are no car chases, massive shoot outs, pointless sex scenes or tedious f words, just the story of an enigmatic assasin with a job to do and how he plans to assasinate De Gaulle. My favourite scenes are the ones with The Jackal and the unnamed forger, a complete sleazeball who lives in a squalid apartment, sells pornography and is killed off when he becomes too greedy.
It’s curious, but in the novel, it’s implied the two men had developed a respect for each other. Had the Jackal succeeded in killing De Gaulle, and then Lebel, it’s not out of the question that he may have paid a visit under yet another false identity.
@@fawziekefli2273, I understood the Street Fighter (1994), but it doesn't work here. The Jackal tried to murder President Charles De Gaulle on August 25, 1963, which was a Sunday.
Interesting bit of info: the man who did the part of Charles de Gaulle was an incredible likeness to the real Charles de Gaulle, who had died a few years prior. The French people acting as the crowd were shocked when on the first take, the actor stepped out of the car, and one of the actors playing a old soldier being presented with a medal fainted.
The man who did the part of Charles de Gaulle was Adrien Cayla-Legrand (1919-2007), and yes, there was some likeness between him and de Gaulle, but don't exaggerate. It was not that much. That's why in the movie he is always shown from a distance and there is never a close-up on his face. And his participation in the movie was kept to a mimimum. Also remember that de Gaulle was 6'5" (1,96m), and I think Cayla-Legrand was not even close to that.
So agree although The Odessa File was ok and stayed pretty faithful to the book . The Dogs of War was really dreadful whilst The Fourth Protocol was rather dull and never did the novel justice.
We can assume he is British, probably ex special forces, a highly regarded contract killer and changes his identity regularly to trick the police. Otherwise The Jackal is an enigmatic individual who lives in the shadows and lives off the earnings from his dubious career
If he had many identities and the authorities couldn't track him, it means one of two things: either a legitimate government was ultimately behind him or the Jackal left no trail and likely killed everyone who could finger him or assisted him in building his shadow life even though they may not have known what they were doing at the time.
Even in The Jackal with Bruce Willis at the end when after the Jackals death Sidney Poitiers character remarks I wonder if ever know who the hell he really was.
@@Glenn1967fulIt's interesting to speculate about his background. In one scene in the book he thinks about the mundane job he had before he became an assassin. So I think he was either military or possibly MI5 or MI6. SF is obvious but given his skills I also though he could be army engineers or EME (electrical/mechanical engineers). How did he go from being an office worker to being a highly regarded assassin?
@@petermortimer6303 He obviously has military training as he is a crack shot and lethal with his bare hands, as the forger found out. It's possible The Jackal could have left the army, gone into a tedious civilian job, before being drawn into the world of contract killing. It's likely some old friends would have recommended him.
I like the part at the end when the British police inspector is at Charles Caltrops' flat and Caltrop walks in demanding why he's in there, and when he tells the inspector his name Forsyth wrote "The inspector wished he carried a gun."
I hope Lebel got a raise after this and a good annual review. Annual review: Exceed standard - stopped assassination of French President Below Standard - Didn't ask for more help to save DeGaulle Below Standard - Didn't check if French policeman was alive after being shot by the Jackal. Overall Annual Review - just satisfactory 2% raise.
Like the look of utter disbelief in the Jackals eyes after he narrowly misses, as if wondering why on earth did that idiot have to bow down to hug ?!? What is this a wedding party or something.. 🍷😆
@@minnowpd The bullets make no sound as they pass. Unless there is a firesuppseor fitted to the barrel of the rifle (which means the bullet is fired at less than the speed of noise and has less effectiveness as to range and accuracy) you will not hear a bullet passing by.
Edward Fox : a man of petite frame but Huge scene presence! & Fred Zimmerman’s direction of Forsythe’s novel was excellent. Loved watching this film again. Jane Russell
I felt badly for the innocent police officer who got shot when he entered the door. The detective never even turned around to see if he was dead or alive or wounded and could be saved. The book added more flavor because the movie didn’t quite capture all the scenes as they were written. But I liked it anyway and I use this audio book to fall asleep with. Good night 🌙💤
Same. Poor cop was just doing his job, I don't think he had much of a chance considering it was an explosive tipped round with no exit wound on the officer its safe to say his insides would probably resemble strawberry jelly.
@@B-26354 the actor playing the uniformed cop is Philippe Leotard who was very well known in France as a distinguished theatre actor, singer, writer and poet, he is playing a small role here but he worked with some distinguished French directors including Francois Truffaut....I'm telling you all this so you won't feel so bad about him getting shot by the Jackal in this movie because he went on to appear in other movies after this.👍
@@B-26354 Yes, mercury tipped explosive bullet, I believe. Like you said, the result would have looked like strawberry jelly. No one could survive that.
Superb film. One of the best ever made, according to me. Loved it when I was a kid watching it with my parents. love it even now. can never tire of the scenes where he roars around rural france in that gorgeous White Alfa Romeo Giulietta and the other scenes where he is practicing with that fantastic rifle.
As can be expected, Hollywood tried to remake this movie back in 1997. Trying to "update" the story "for modern audiences". Can you imagine a mumbling Bruce Willis replacing Edward Fox as the cool, deadly Jackal? Yeah--it was that bad. Siskel and Ebert called it "one of the worst movies of the year".
delavalmilker Never forget about that cringe Richard Gere's Irish accent in the remake too (even worse than Sean Connery's Russian accent in Hunt for Red October)
the remake, if you can call it that considering how vastly different it is, is honestly one of the shittiest most boring films ive seen in a while. Bruce willis cannot do method/character acting, AT ALL, I mean compare this to the way Edward Fox or even John Malkovich (In The Line of Fire) can slip into different personalities so effortlessly. Besides that the movie is just so cliched and boring with no original interesting suspenseful idea, and ditching most of what made the original so good, waste of good actors too like Poitier. Nighthawks is an example of how you do an assassin story right, Rutger Hauer is much more believable as a man who can effortlessly slip into different situations or identities. Ik ppl love Bruce willis cuz of a few action films but the guy can’t act and without a great director he’s hopeless
@@dioarya6275 at least Sean Connery was a great entertaining actor to watch, and a powerhouse on screen, i never really cared that he kept his scottish accent in most roles he was always a good screen presence. Bruce Willis can’t act worth a damn, he’s decent in action roles but he’s the exact fucking same in every movie, hell, people can criticise Connery’s accent but he’s a proper performer nonetheless
@ppuh6tfrz646 Doesn't matter. If he had just bowed a little, same result. It was a bad spot. Maybe they meant to suggest that he heard the policeman at the door and therefore took the shot? _
There is a parallel. With DeGalle there was a large organised conspiracy of well placed people who engaged 'The Jackel'. The question is do the similarities extend still further as regards Trump.
I love Michael Lonsdale 's performance here-his expression as he peers at the Jackal's dead body is spot on. A lesser actor would have played it cool and impassive.
The only difference is with DeGalle the only result of the near miss was a puff of dust from the street cobble. Alas with Trump there was a dear innocent bystander killed.
I must admit I was a bit gutted with the ending - I was hoping they'd go for an alternate-history type ending. It might have benefitted from having a fictional target, seeing as how nearly every single character in the story bar the General himself was fictional. Nothing would have fitted better than having the Jackal slip away into obscurity once pulling off the hit of the century...
The first OAS assassins (the ones who got imprisoned and executed) were real too. I agree though, I found myself impressed with the Jackal and how he had so many plans. It would have been interesting if it was alternate history and he really did slip away without being caught.
The bullets from the machine gun throwing him against the wall was daft but an excellent movie none the less. I've read two novels by Fredrick Forsythe, The Fist of God which is one best SAS soldier novel I've read, on par with early Terrence Strong. Have also read the follow up, The Afghan.
I have a first edition of the book in Danish. I remember seeing the movie with my dad. We have it in our DVD collection and on my birthday we always see it and the first day of June as tradition. The day of the Jackal is the only reason why i wanted to learn french.
Apart from the obvious mystery of who The Jackal actually was another thing left open was the fate of the gunsmith . The Jackal asked for an extra bullet at one point , was it to kill the gunsmith or not ? In fairness the gunsmith was very professional and discreet unlike the forger who overplayed his hand and paid the price .
You can see the Jackal unwrapping the bullet later in the forest to shoot at the melon. The Jackal knew the gunsmith was a professional and discreet unlike the forger.
@@christoph404 Thank you for that Chris , I didn't know that . On one level that us a Shame as the gunsmith treated the Jackal with respect from one professional to another , but I guess the Jackal had to eliminate anyone who gad the potential to betray him, as he did with the man who let him stay at his home in Paris and the lady he slept with at her big house .
Of course it's the people who didn't like Algeria being independent and bitter that their "mighty" country got drained of it's resources by de Gaulle 😂😂
I read Forsyth's book when I was about 12. Fascinating back then as it still is today. The film comes close to the book but of course it doesn't reveal what goes on in the mind of a professional killer, as does the book of course. As for Jackal's true identity, he was probably English, but then again, it's just a work of fiction. But it could have happened after all...
Great film. Only one thing always bugged me. Why did the Jackal not shoot deGaulle while the anthem was playing? He would stand absolutely still for a whole minute.
Thank you. I had always wondered how he was plastered to the wall by the machine gun. Also unclear how he intended to escape if he had successfully killed DeGaulle
And in a French house (Europeans use bricks, not plywood...) the wall wouldn't give in to his impact like that... Probably just a studio builder's goof - but once you've noticed, you can't "un-see" it ever again...
Why didn't the Jackal shoot while De Gaulle was standing to attention for the national anthem? He wasn't to know that the President would lean forward to kiss the cheek of the guy who was getting the medal but he is guaranteed a stationary target during the anthem.
@@adrianparker-e9f That's the best I can figure. I wonder if he's a French resident and can just disappear into the crowd as a local there for the celebration at that point.
Moral of story: just 2 inches over plz. Yes today is Saturday, Trump was in PA and just about didn’t walk away. No further comment. Who was the American jackal? And it wasn’t even 5th Ave.
Brilliant film. My only real gripe is how the Jackal is thrown back and up against the wall by being shot. For a movie grounded in relatable realism, that part's a touch jarring.
One of the best last lines in any media: "But if Calthrop wasn't the Jackal, then who the hell was he?" above Leon S. Kennedy's last line of RE2: "It's up to us, to take down Umbrella."
I hope the present and future filmakers study this Ma sterpiece and learn that you don't need a bunch of car wrecks or a million bullets to make a great film and keep the viewers tense, just a Great story, and attention to detail with good actors. That said, in this brilliantly climactic scene, i could detect the Only minute mistake in the whole film. At 1:44 when the Jackal is thrown on the wall, it gives in a little.
@@LittleB2007 well since Dolfy checked out in 1945 and there are people still alive born in 1940, and are now only 81, it’s possible. Guess you learned common core math eh Millenial?
SPOILER ALERT. It's not clear how the detective in charge so quickly deduces the location of the Jackal simply from the brief exchange with the police officer. He speaks to him and shows him something. Is this the detective's ID or a picture of the Jackal? Earlier the detective had shown what appears to be an ID to another police officer so we can reasonably assume it is his ID this time as well. The officer, he's the one who stopped the Jackal disguised as a one-legged patriot, salutes. We couldn't hear the short exchange so we, the audience, have to deduce what's going on. Not the best way to go. Great movie but it stumbled at this point. A voiceover with some dialog would have fixed this.
If I am not mistaken, that policeman had let the "war veteran" (Jackal) get inside the perimeter and head towards that building. I deduce that Lebel asked the policeman whether he had seen something unusual, someone that might had caught his eye, and then the policeman commented on the "war veteran". Lebel deduced that the "veteran" might be the Jackal and, when approaching the building, saw the open window and rushed to get to the apartment.
I just wish that the director hadn't had that ridiculous rope pull on the Jackal when he got hit by the machine pistol rounds. Absurd. The rest of the film is fabulous.
Not really the day of the jackal, is it? Shame the ending hadn’t shown that he succeeded and we’re left with the assassination of Degaul and the Jackal having escaped and never heard from again
Great film, but the one thing that didn’t ring true was that the machine gun shots would’ve have been heard below, and so they wouldn’t have just carried on with the ceremony. But that’s the movies…
He hesitated. If you hesitate, always assume you will miss. Atleast thats how it works in video games😂. He knew this guy was shaking hands formal like. All he had to do was wait for the next person and the moment he stands straight up, fire. This movie has always disappointed me.
This movie was pretty good, although perhaps a sort of a feel-good movie to make people feel like the law won? After all, Carlos killed many, many people before he was finally apprehended. This is the basis for the Jason Bourne first book, (Not the movie version).
one goodpolice serviceman is killed hasty in place of the grand commise of the foreign department, and the grand commise doesn't care at all of the conditions of his subordinate good man? Not likely.
I doubt it would have saved the Jackal. 1) It would have been difficult to smuggle another weapon into the apartment. 2) A second weapon might have enabled him to kill Lebel and then assassinate De Gaulle with the original rifle but I don't think he would have been able to escape successfully after the machine gun bullets had been fired at 1:37. It would have attracted too much attention.
What I like about film versions of Frederick Forsyth novels are they stay broadly to the novels. The temptation would have been to have a big shootout and a car chase to make the film appeal more to American viewers, but Jackal only had the minimum of violence( the scene at the end, the forger being killed with two karate blows, and the Jackal's mistress being killed) and was more about the plot. The Odessa File did add some more action scenes, but was still mostly true to the novel.
This is why any good assassin should have a secondary weapon. Had the Jackal here had himself some type of suppressed pistol he could have easily dispatched the police who were after him. The pistol I think I would have wanted to use would be the classic M1911 fitted with a can the .45 ACP is already subsonic and its even quieter with the can. Plus you would only need one good shot to incapacitate anyone you need to. One shot to drop them, one to finish em off. The .22 magnum here was a good choice to kill and escape but it’s too slow and not a good option for rapid follow ups. We’re I trying this today I think the Jackal’s main weapon is a good option but I would opt for an AR-7 rechambered in .22 magnum. It’s small it’s light and it’s all in one package. For defensive purposes it would be an ex Soviet Makarov PB with its internal suppressor its very quiet. Plus at close range 9x18 should be sufficient to incapacitate someone. The AR-7 is a good option too because it’s magazine fed and you can get rapid follow up shots if need be
And what if he’d been searched first by the policeman who let him through the cordon? The pistol would have been found, the alarm raised and the Jackal would have been caught. He knew that he could potentially have been searched multiple times before he managed to infiltrate the cordon, which is why he carried nothing that might give him away
@@greva2904 a small .22 pistol is very easily concealable in many items. Like the rifle it could be set up to easily breakdown into different items. For example the welrod when disassembled resembled a bike pump . With as much ingenuity as the jackal showed when he had his rifle made, it shouldn’t take much more to obtain a sidearm and have the needed changes made to allow it to look like anything but a gun. In that era .22LR or magnum was easily obtainable with few questions asked and having several parts of a pistol configured in a way that they don’t look like a gun ain’t hard. Check out the lengths the OSS went to in WW2 to have an easily accessible gun that looked like anything but a gun.
@@matthewcaughey8898 You don’t understand - he just could not take the risk of carrying a secondary weapon as there was a very good chance he would be searched by security and the secondary weapon would be found. Why on earth would he take that risk? It’s a suicidal risk. If he’s searched and the weapon is found, then what does he do ? - shoot it out with the policeman and then run - assuming the policeman didn’t get the better of him, which he could have - knowing that dozens of other cops/security will be zeroing in on him and his chances of escape/surviving are almost nil? Either way his mission is blown. All because he tried to be a smart arse and carry a pistol. Maybe he should have carried a bazooka with him as well, in case an armoured car showed up!
The Jackal prefers not to fight. He prefers stealth and to hide in plain sight. Had his mission gone according to plan, he would have killed no one but De Gaulle which meant that another weapon was unnecessary. He was traveling openly in France under an assumed name, and had three fake identities planned in case he had to drop the first one. Plus, he's shown to have the ability to kill with his hands. Shootouts just aren't his style.
The Jackal could have lived and succeed if he rushed at Lebel to kill him after shooting the cop so Lebel would not be able to pick up the sub machine gun
By the same token, I'm surprised that the inspector didn't just rush at the Jackal while he was trying to reload. If it hadn't been a single-shot gun, and the submachine gun hadn't been there, the inspector would have been easily shot.
Edward fox acted brilliantly And excellent The mistake of the jackal is he should call it off and Take down the president Gaulle in another day Because on that Day a lot of policemen in every corner Wrong move but what can I say it's only a movie Superb film
The way he flew up in the air is hilarious
The cop shot him at close range with a Mat 49 sub-machine gun - no wonder the Jackal didn't need his golden wings to take to the air!
@@mikelewis1436 They just dont make 9mill like they used too... shame...
Sent his ass into orbit
Not meant to be.
This was before newton discovered gravity
Moral of the story:
Every sniper should carry a back up weapon
I mean, he couldn't. He had to line up everything perfectly to get through with one weapon, two would be almost impossible. And he wasn't supposed to miss...
The problem was not with the weapon.
Trump was lucky, like what was portrayed in this movie. Also, two motorcycle cops died while in the convoy carry Degaulle early in the movie in real life.
@@guyfawkesuThe1 Yep, when I heard about the attempt on July 13th, I automatically thought about this scene with Charles De Gaulle. Sometimes, luck is on your side.
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Enjoyed the book and the film greatly as a young man. It is possibly the only magnificent work of fiction that has caused U.K. laws to be changed in that it showed in great detail how easy it was to obtain official documentation for what we would now call identity theft. The masterful ending, of course, being that we don't ever find out the Jackal's true identity! Writing at it's finest.
IN the Bruce Willis/Richard Gere remake, it has the same ending in that we never find out the Jackal's real Identity. Richard Gere just says he was Evil and he is dead now. In actuallity, at least for the Richard Gere remake- they could have used Fingerprints to try to find out what the Jackal actually was. They might have even used DNA analysis as well. But I guess the Richard Gere ending wanted to have a similiar ending to the Original.
🎼🎶Will the real Jackal please Stan up?
It sucks that today writing is just a dead cows
The whole film builds up to this short but brutal climax, where The Jackal is gunned down. There are no car chases, massive shoot outs, pointless sex scenes or tedious f words, just the story of an enigmatic assasin with a job to do and how he plans to assasinate De Gaulle. My favourite scenes are the ones with The Jackal and the unnamed forger, a complete sleazeball who lives in a squalid apartment, sells pornography and is killed off when he becomes too greedy.
En la realidad ,el chacal no murio vive o vivia en Oenau Paraguay
Lebel was the only person who bothered to show up for the Jackal's funeral.
The several days of Lebels life were so intense that he connected to the Jackal
It’s curious, but in the novel, it’s implied the two men had developed a respect for each other.
Had the Jackal succeeded in killing De Gaulle, and then Lebel, it’s not out of the question that he may have paid a visit under yet another false identity.
For Lebel, the day the Jackal tried to assassinate de Gaulle was the most important day of his life. For the Jackal, it was Tuesday.
@@fawziekefli2273, I understood the Street Fighter (1994), but it doesn't work here. The Jackal tried to murder President Charles De Gaulle on August 25, 1963, which was a Sunday.
@@fawziekefli2273 Qué elegante e inteligente comentario.
One of the very best films of those heady days of the 1970s. If you lived through those years as I did ( I am 78) then you are indeed blessed.
Very true
One of the best movies indeed, along with "Three Days of the Condor" which came out two years later.
I was to young to enjoy this movie when it first came out but sneaked and watched it in the late seventies.
Interesting bit of info: the man who did the part of Charles de Gaulle was an incredible likeness to the real Charles de Gaulle, who had died a few years prior. The French people acting as the crowd were shocked when on the first take, the actor stepped out of the car, and one of the actors playing a old soldier being presented with a medal fainted.
The man who did the part of Charles de Gaulle was Adrien Cayla-Legrand (1919-2007), and yes, there was some likeness between him and de Gaulle, but don't exaggerate. It was not that much. That's why in the movie he is always shown from a distance and there is never a close-up on his face. And his participation in the movie was kept to a mimimum.
Also remember that de Gaulle was 6'5" (1,96m), and I think Cayla-Legrand was not even close to that.
@@3BK235Yyeah the General was a giant and was known to tower over people
Fredrick Forsythe 's brilliant novel , wonderfully filmed. None of his other novels ( all superb) met a similar cinematic acclaim!!
The film rendition of The Dogs of War was particularly disappointing.
@@RayHicks-gl7gm Odessa File and the Fourth Protocol were more disappointing than the 'Dogs of War'
So agree although The Odessa File was ok and stayed pretty faithful to the book . The Dogs of War was really dreadful whilst The Fourth Protocol was rather dull and never did the novel justice.
Its crazy that we never knew who the Jackal was as he has so many false identities. A perfect assassin
We can assume he is British, probably ex special forces, a highly regarded contract killer and changes his identity regularly to trick the police. Otherwise The Jackal is an enigmatic individual who lives in the shadows and lives off the earnings from his dubious career
If he had many identities and the authorities couldn't track him, it means one of two things: either a legitimate government was ultimately behind him or the Jackal left no trail and likely killed everyone who could finger him or assisted him in building his shadow life even though they may not have known what they were doing at the time.
Even in The Jackal with Bruce Willis at the end when after the Jackals death Sidney Poitiers character remarks I wonder if ever know who the hell he really was.
@@Glenn1967fulIt's interesting to speculate about his background. In one scene in the book he thinks about the mundane job he had before he became an assassin. So I think he was either military or possibly MI5 or MI6. SF is obvious but given his skills I also though he could be army engineers or EME (electrical/mechanical engineers). How did he go from being an office worker to being a highly regarded assassin?
@@petermortimer6303 He obviously has military training as he is a crack shot and lethal with his bare hands, as the forger found out. It's possible The Jackal could have left the army, gone into a tedious civilian job, before being drawn into the world of contract killing. It's likely some old friends would have recommended him.
1:44 the walls shake like it's some B-movie cardboard set :D That's amazing, never noticed that before.
He got shocked, shot by SMG.. that he is flying to the ceiling lol
Well noticed
I like the part at the end when the British police inspector is at Charles Caltrops' flat and Caltrop walks in demanding why he's in there, and when he tells the inspector his name Forsyth wrote "The inspector wished he carried a gun."
I hope Lebel got a raise after this and a good annual review.
Annual review: Exceed standard - stopped assassination of French President
Below Standard - Didn't ask for more help to save DeGaulle
Below Standard - Didn't check if French policeman was alive after being shot by the Jackal.
Overall Annual Review - just satisfactory
2% raise.
I imagine it was heavily covered up.
My top favourite film, brilliantly acted and a great cast
Saw this movie with my Dad. Movie making at its' best.
Same here, with my dad and older brother. One of our favourite movies in the 70`s.
Proud people the French. And in 1962, when this takes place, many of these officers were veterans of both World War I and World War II.
Like the look of utter disbelief in the Jackals eyes after he narrowly misses, as if wondering why on earth did that idiot have to bow down to hug ?!? What is this a wedding party or something.. 🍷😆
DeGaule was tall. As a graduate of st Cyr he is at attention even when bending over.
As a veteran of 2 wars he would have heard the bullet whistle past. No reaction
@@minnowpd
The bullets make no sound as they pass. Unless there is a firesuppseor fitted to the barrel of the rifle (which means the bullet is fired at less than the speed of noise and has less effectiveness as to range and accuracy) you will not hear a bullet passing by.
@@minnowpd maybe he had hearing problems
@@christopherhunt9078 not true.
Edward Fox : a man of petite frame but Huge scene presence!
& Fred Zimmerman’s direction of Forsythe’s novel was excellent.
Loved watching this film again.
Jane Russell
I felt badly for the innocent police officer who got shot when he entered the door. The detective never even turned around to see if he was dead or alive or wounded and could be saved. The book added more flavor because the movie didn’t quite capture all the scenes as they were written. But I liked it anyway and I use this audio book to fall asleep with. Good night 🌙💤
Same.
Poor cop was just doing his job, I don't think he had much of a chance considering it was an explosive tipped round with no exit wound on the officer its safe to say his insides would probably resemble strawberry jelly.
@@B-26354 the actor playing the uniformed cop is Philippe Leotard who was very well known in France as a distinguished theatre actor, singer, writer and poet, he is playing a small role here but he worked with some distinguished French directors including Francois Truffaut....I'm telling you all this so you won't feel so bad about him getting shot by the Jackal in this movie because he went on to appear in other movies after this.👍
But they were feeling sorry for the character, not the actor who played him. In this universe, his insides were turned to mush @@christoph404
@@B-26354 Yes, mercury tipped explosive bullet, I believe. Like you said, the result would have looked like strawberry jelly. No one could survive that.
1:44 - That's a heck of a machine gun!
50 cal
Superb film. One of the best ever made, according to me. Loved it when I was a kid watching it with my parents. love it even now. can never tire of the scenes where he roars around rural france in that gorgeous White Alfa Romeo Giulietta and the other scenes where he is practicing with that fantastic rifle.
As can be expected, Hollywood tried to remake this movie back in 1997. Trying to "update" the story "for modern audiences". Can you imagine a mumbling Bruce Willis replacing Edward Fox as the cool, deadly Jackal? Yeah--it was that bad. Siskel and Ebert called it "one of the worst movies of the year".
delavalmilker Never forget about that cringe Richard Gere's Irish accent in the remake too (even worse than Sean Connery's Russian accent in Hunt for Red October)
@@dioarya6275 technically Sean Connerys accent was Latvian
@@MrRaulstrnad Yeah I know, but Latvia was a part of Soviet Union at that time where the novel / film takes place
the remake, if you can call it that considering how vastly different it is, is honestly one of the shittiest most boring films ive seen in a while. Bruce willis cannot do method/character acting, AT ALL, I mean compare this to the way Edward Fox or even John Malkovich (In The Line of Fire) can slip into different personalities so effortlessly. Besides that the movie is just so cliched and boring with no original interesting suspenseful idea, and ditching most of what made the original so good, waste of good actors too like Poitier. Nighthawks is an example of how you do an assassin story right, Rutger Hauer is much more believable as a man who can effortlessly slip into different situations or identities. Ik ppl love Bruce willis cuz of a few action films but the guy can’t act and without a great director he’s hopeless
@@dioarya6275 at least Sean Connery was a great entertaining actor to watch, and a powerhouse on screen, i never really cared that he kept his scottish accent in most roles he was always a good screen presence. Bruce Willis can’t act worth a damn, he’s decent in action roles but he’s the exact fucking same in every movie, hell, people can criticise Connery’s accent but he’s a proper performer nonetheless
Met Edward Fox. Nice man. Told him about the remake. Wasn't happy.
Can't beat a classic!
Hey who would be😮😂😮😮😮
Edward Fox tenía una clase extraordinaria. Está perfecto en el papel. Es uno de esos actores que “visten” impecablemente el personaje.
less a remake and more a de-make. Absolutely awful 😕
Read the book, enjoyed the film. It was possibly the only magnificent work of fiction
The final scene is The Last Day of the Jackal.
Very good 😂
all that effort and he missed the shot, gg Jackal
The target moved unexpectedly.
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That bullet took a covered wagon to travel across that courtyard.
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No, that wasn't unexpected. Jackal picked a bad moment.
@@ricksimon9867 The Jackal wasn't expecting De Gaulle to kiss the veteran.
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Doesn't matter. If he had just bowed a little, same result. It was a bad spot. Maybe they meant to suggest that he heard the policeman at the door and therefore took the shot?
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A brilliant action scene.
President DeGalle moved his head at the right moment - Trump did the same thing today.
There is a parallel. With DeGalle there was a large organised conspiracy of well placed people who engaged 'The Jackel'. The question is do the similarities extend still further as regards Trump.
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I love Michael Lonsdale 's performance here-his expression as he peers at the Jackal's dead body is spot on. A lesser actor would have played it cool and impassive.
He was great in Ronin
@@JamesHoran-i3d and Moonraker
I have always felt sad for the policeman being killed at the end.
I know it's a film, but...
Agreed, the book goes into more detail about the young policeman's death. Quite sad.
What happened with trump today reminded me so much of this scene. Crazy.
Yeah! He is lucky
Immediately thought of this when he survived because of a small head movement, Frederick Forsyth should write a novel about it!
The only difference is with DeGalle the only result of the near miss was a puff of dust from the street cobble. Alas with Trump there was a dear innocent bystander killed.
@@capuchinhelper Trump is not worth such book compared to hero Charles.
@@krzysztofkrowicki1312the he isn’t trump it’s is trying to save the western world
I must admit I was a bit gutted with the ending - I was hoping they'd go for an alternate-history type ending. It might have benefitted from having a fictional target, seeing as how nearly every single character in the story bar the General himself was fictional. Nothing would have fitted better than having the Jackal slip away into obscurity once pulling off the hit of the century...
The first OAS assassins (the ones who got imprisoned and executed) were real too. I agree though, I found myself impressed with the Jackal and how he had so many plans. It would have been interesting if it was alternate history and he really did slip away without being caught.
The bullets from the machine gun throwing him against the wall was daft but an excellent movie none the less. I've read two novels by Fredrick Forsythe, The Fist of God which is one best SAS soldier novel I've read, on par with early Terrence Strong. Have also read the follow up, The Afghan.
The "wall" also wasn't that well built - you can see it move when he hits it!
This is a GREAT movie !!!!!
Claude Lebel nailing it!!!
He was a breath of fresh air. Cool characters are hard to come by
Great movie , great casting , great Forsyt's book
Hugo Drax saves Trump from a headshot..... well played, sir.
No doubt Thomas Crooks' last thought was, Well at least I got closer than the Jackal did.
I have a first edition of the book in Danish. I remember seeing the movie with my dad. We have it in our DVD collection and on my birthday we always see it and the first day of June as tradition. The day of the Jackal is the only reason why i wanted to learn french.
Did you end up learning French ?
Just watched this on dvd brilliant movie
Apart from the obvious mystery of who The Jackal actually was another thing left open was the fate of the gunsmith . The Jackal asked for an extra bullet at one point , was it to kill the gunsmith or not ? In fairness the gunsmith was very professional and discreet unlike the forger who overplayed his hand and paid the price .
You can see the Jackal unwrapping the bullet later in the forest to shoot at the melon. The Jackal knew the gunsmith was a professional and discreet unlike the forger.
@@CB-fz3li Thanks for that . Good point .
The Jackal kills the gunsmith, a scene was filmed of him doing so but it was edited out from the final cut of the movie.
@@christoph404 Thank you for that Chris , I didn't know that . On one level that us a Shame as the gunsmith treated the Jackal with respect from one professional to another , but I guess the Jackal had to eliminate anyone who gad the potential to betray him, as he did with the man who let him stay at his home in Paris and the lady he slept with at her big house .
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In the book he does not kill the gunsmith, mr. Goossens.
Where does one find these clips that were edited out?
Who the hell gave a thumbs down on this clip?
Hillary Clinton 👹
The Jackal ofc
Of course it's the people who didn't like Algeria being independent and bitter that their "mighty" country got drained of it's resources by de Gaulle 😂😂
Wolenski thumbed this down before dying. 👎
@@dima.jiharev Lol, good one. 😄
That copper must really like that coat because it never left his side untill when he entered the room.
My Boi Michael Lonsdale delivering some lead salad with the mat49
I read Forsyth's book when I was about 12. Fascinating back then as it still is today. The film comes close to the book but of course it doesn't reveal what goes on in the mind of a professional killer, as does the book of course.
As for Jackal's true identity, he was probably English, but then again, it's just a work of fiction.
But it could have happened after all...
Honestly, for me this is the magic of the book. Even after you read it, you still have something to think about
Excellent movie 😊
1:32 thankfully Charles de Gaulle was fine
Great film.
Only one thing always bugged me. Why did the Jackal not shoot deGaulle while the anthem was playing?
He would stand absolutely still for a whole minute.
When the 'Jackal' adopts the Danish school teacher disguise, what does he do with his rifle ? How does he transport it ?
Always remember, using your Sidearm is Always faster than Reloading
History of the confusion and thank you for the book and 😮❤.
Excellent movie
And of course, it's not possible for the momentum of bullets to propel a body upwards like that. Dramatic, but not really physically possible.
Thank you. I had always wondered how he was plastered to the wall by the machine gun. Also unclear how he intended to escape if he had successfully killed DeGaulle
And in a French house (Europeans use bricks, not plywood...) the wall wouldn't give in to his impact like that...
Probably just a studio builder's goof - but once you've noticed, you can't "un-see" it ever again...
Just like trump Anyway someday they can get a DNA sample and 50 years later can figure out who the Jackal really was.
Why didn't the Jackal shoot while De Gaulle was standing to attention for the national anthem? He wasn't to know that the President would lean forward to kiss the cheek of the guy who was getting the medal but he is guaranteed a stationary target during the anthem.
Looks worse. These are French nationalists after all!
Maybe he couldn't shoot De Gaulle from that angle.
I wondered the same thing. The camera angle seemed to show a perfect line of sight. Better to have shown some impediment to taking the shot then.
Real life version today
Absolute masterpiece
What always bothered me was he had burned through all his fake IDs to get to this point. What was his exit strategy?
good point. Maybe he would use his real identity to leave France ? ( would that need a stamp in it in 1963 to show he had entered France legally ?)
@@adrianparker-e9f That's the best I can figure. I wonder if he's a French resident and can just disappear into the crowd as a local there for the celebration at that point.
After all that meticulous planning to assassinate Charles de Gaulle, the Jackal missed. _The Day of the Jackal_ is a true 70s classic by the way.
Read the book back in the 70's and naively thought it was non-fiction.
Thats not that unreasonable lol. The way its written its almost like its fact, as well its very closely aligned with history. Fantastic book
Moral of story: just 2 inches over plz. Yes today is Saturday, Trump was in PA and just about didn’t walk away. No further comment. Who was the American jackal? And it wasn’t even 5th Ave.
The moment (from the novel) where both pro- and anta-gonist pause to regard each other remains unmatched.
Enjoyed the jump at the wall XD
Yes, the wall tried to jump out of the way too 🙂
Great film
I’m surprised that they gave him a dignified burial. I would have expected that they would wrap him up in plastic and dump him in a landfill.
Brilliant film. My only real gripe is how the Jackal is thrown back and up against the wall by being shot. For a movie grounded in relatable realism, that part's a touch jarring.
Michael Lonsdale is really good. He plays an incredible role as a Russian Diplomat in Smiley's people. He's also in Ronin, with De Niro .
Brilliant film.
Who came here after shorts and reels
You did.
Remember, it's always faster to draw out your secondary weapon instead of reloading...
Masterpiece ❤💪🏻 😎
One of the best last lines in any media:
"But if Calthrop wasn't the Jackal, then who the hell was he?"
above Leon S. Kennedy's last line of RE2:
"It's up to us, to take down Umbrella."
What's the name of the music that plays at the end (from 2.54 onwards)?
Good classic movie
They show the inspector looking up and seeing an open window. But the camera than pulls back does not show any open windows.
Donald trump moment
100%.
I hope the present and future filmakers study this Ma sterpiece and learn that you don't need a bunch of car wrecks or a million bullets to make a great film and keep the viewers tense, just a Great story, and attention to detail with good actors.
That said, in this brilliantly climactic scene, i could detect the Only minute mistake in the whole film. At 1:44 when the Jackal is thrown on the wall, it gives in a little.
I’m 68, I remember De Gaulle. Now the French have Macaroon. Sad.
@@dmyt-fr I’m 69 and and remember EISENHOWER, now we have Alzheimer’s JoJo.
I'm waiting for someone to say "I'm 98 and remember Adolf"
@@LittleB2007 well since Dolfy checked out in 1945 and there are people still alive born in 1940, and are now only 81, it’s possible. Guess you learned common core math eh Millenial?
@@LittleB2007 that was wicked 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Kezia I dunno, if Dolfy hadn’t had that little quirk about Jews he wasn’t all that different from Der Führeress.
What a fine picture,i like best
Strange editing for the last few shots. (I'm sure there's a story to that) also take a bloody pulse of the French policeman.😀
SPOILER ALERT. It's not clear how the detective in charge so quickly deduces the location of the Jackal simply from the brief exchange with the police officer. He speaks to him and shows him something. Is this the detective's ID or a picture of the Jackal? Earlier the detective had shown what appears to be an ID to another police officer so we can reasonably assume it is his ID this time as well. The officer, he's the one who stopped the Jackal disguised as a one-legged patriot, salutes. We couldn't hear the short exchange so we, the audience, have to deduce what's going on. Not the best way to go. Great movie but it stumbled at this point. A voiceover with some dialog would have fixed this.
If I am not mistaken, that policeman had let the "war veteran" (Jackal) get inside the perimeter and head towards that building. I deduce that Lebel asked the policeman whether he had seen something unusual, someone that might had caught his eye, and then the policeman commented on the "war veteran". Lebel deduced that the "veteran" might be the Jackal and, when approaching the building, saw the open window and rushed to get to the apartment.
lebel probably asked the policeman if he had let anyone through the perimeter
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He did. It's in the novel.
hardly rocket science
The inspector carries his raincoat up the staircase, and enters the hotel room unarmed. He may be better suited for office duties.
In the given famous movie is available in amazon or in Netflix?
I just wish that the director hadn't had that ridiculous rope pull on the Jackal when he got hit by the machine pistol rounds. Absurd. The rest of the film is fabulous.
Best movie ever
Great little detail about the time of flight of that little 22 Winchester Magnum bullet. Probably would only be half a second at 300 yards.
Not really the day of the jackal, is it? Shame the ending hadn’t shown that he succeeded and we’re left with the assassination of Degaul and the Jackal having escaped and never heard from again
Is that what really happened?
They should make a version where he nails the 🐸 eater and escapes to a tropical island with a beautiful girlfriend to enjoy life.
@@TheDRODOR No
The red bull kicked in as he got shot
His first shot hits the ground, which would have sent everyone surrounding DeGaulle into a panic, yet no one noticed and the ceremony continues 🙄
Great film, but the one thing that didn’t ring true was that the machine gun shots would’ve have been heard below, and so they wouldn’t have just carried on with the ceremony. But that’s the movies…
What is the name of the march played as the Jackal is buried???
He hesitated. If you hesitate, always assume you will miss. Atleast thats how it works in video games😂. He knew this guy was shaking hands formal like. All he had to do was wait for the next person and the moment he stands straight up, fire. This movie has always disappointed me.
This movie was pretty good, although perhaps a sort of a feel-good movie to make people feel like the law won? After all, Carlos killed many, many people before he was finally apprehended. This is the basis for the Jason Bourne first book, (Not the movie version).
one goodpolice serviceman is killed hasty in place of the grand commise of the foreign department, and the grand commise doesn't care at all of the conditions of his subordinate good man? Not likely.
This movie is favourite of sadam Hussain ex president Iraq
Always carry a sidearm on those kind of missions...
I doubt it would have saved the Jackal.
1) It would have been difficult to smuggle another weapon into the apartment.
2) A second weapon might have enabled him to kill Lebel and then assassinate De Gaulle with the original rifle but I don't think he would have been able to escape successfully after the machine gun bullets had been fired at 1:37.
It would have attracted too much attention.
This movie follows the book pretty well.
That was quick 😅
What I like about film versions of Frederick Forsyth novels are they stay broadly to the novels. The temptation would have been to have a big shootout and a car chase to make the film appeal more to American viewers, but Jackal only had the minimum of violence( the scene at the end, the forger being killed with two karate blows, and the Jackal's mistress being killed) and was more about the plot. The Odessa File did add some more action scenes, but was still mostly true to the novel.
Does anyone know what the music at the very end is?
Yes.
This is why any good assassin should have a secondary weapon. Had the Jackal here had himself some type of suppressed pistol he could have easily dispatched the police who were after him. The pistol I think I would have wanted to use would be the classic M1911 fitted with a can the .45 ACP is already subsonic and its even quieter with the can. Plus you would only need one good shot to incapacitate anyone you need to. One shot to drop them, one to finish em off. The .22 magnum here was a good choice to kill and escape but it’s too slow and not a good option for rapid follow ups. We’re I trying this today I think the Jackal’s main weapon is a good option but I would opt for an AR-7 rechambered in .22 magnum. It’s small it’s light and it’s all in one package. For defensive purposes it would be an ex Soviet Makarov PB with its internal suppressor its very quiet. Plus at close range 9x18 should be sufficient to incapacitate someone. The AR-7 is a good option too because it’s magazine fed and you can get rapid follow up shots if need be
And what if he’d been searched first by the policeman who let him through the cordon? The pistol would have been found, the alarm raised and the Jackal would have been caught. He knew that he could potentially have been searched multiple times before he managed to infiltrate the cordon, which is why he carried nothing that might give him away
@@greva2904 a small .22 pistol is very easily concealable in many items. Like the rifle it could be set up to easily breakdown into different items. For example the welrod when disassembled resembled a bike pump . With as much ingenuity as the jackal showed when he had his rifle made, it shouldn’t take much more to obtain a sidearm and have the needed changes made to allow it to look like anything but a gun. In that era .22LR or magnum was easily obtainable with few questions asked and having several parts of a pistol configured in a way that they don’t look like a gun ain’t hard. Check out the lengths the OSS went to in WW2 to have an easily accessible gun that looked like anything but a gun.
@@matthewcaughey8898 You don’t understand - he just could not take the risk of carrying a secondary weapon as there was a very good chance he would be searched by security and the secondary weapon would be found. Why on earth would he take that risk? It’s a suicidal risk. If he’s searched and the weapon is found, then what does he do ? - shoot it out with the policeman and then run - assuming the policeman didn’t get the better of him, which he could have - knowing that dozens of other cops/security will be zeroing in on him and his chances of escape/surviving are almost nil? Either way his mission is blown. All because he tried to be a smart arse and carry a pistol.
Maybe he should have carried a bazooka with him as well, in case an armoured car showed up!
The Jackal prefers not to fight. He prefers stealth and to hide in plain sight. Had his mission gone according to plan, he would have killed no one but De Gaulle which meant that another weapon was unnecessary. He was traveling openly in France under an assumed name, and had three fake identities planned in case he had to drop the first one. Plus, he's shown to have the ability to kill with his hands. Shootouts just aren't his style.
The Jackal could have lived and succeed if he rushed at Lebel to kill him after shooting the cop so Lebel would not be able to pick up the sub machine gun
By the same token, I'm surprised that the inspector didn't just rush at the Jackal while he was trying to reload. If it hadn't been a single-shot gun, and the submachine gun hadn't been there, the inspector would have been easily shot.
Edward fox acted brilliantly And excellent The mistake of the jackal is he should call it off and Take down the president Gaulle in another day Because on that Day a lot of policemen in every corner Wrong move but what can I say it's only a movie Superb film