EIGER SANCTION is a solid version, too. I much prefer SILENCE OF LAMBS movie to the book, with the differences being the filmmakers eschewed the soft-porn chapters and adultery themes. JAWS, by the way, is a childishly-written book by apparently Peter "I'm a 3rd Grader!" Benchley - just HORRIBLE. And with his own porn insertions as if that'd be keen. But his follow-up THE DEEP was very well written and THAT film is excellent, too.
I was in the Air Force stationed in France in this period (totally oblivious to all of the Algerian events). One night four of us were in Paris driving around and we accidentally passed de Gaulle’s residence twice. We were stopped by some military guy who sticks his face along with his automatic weapon into our vehicle and tells us in broken English “do not drive past this house a third time”!
Glad that you were not arrested and taken for "inquisition". De Gaulle deployed not only French Intelligence but contractors to work at breaking the OAS. They included Vietnamese skilled in interrogation. You would have remembered their methods of interrogation.
Michel Lonsdale was superb as lebel, and I loved the way once he's done all the hard work it's taken out of his hands, so very true to like in so many cases.
This movie is a masterpiece! There was an attempt to recreate this story years later on the big screen and it SUCKED! The 1973 production had superior writing, brilliant directing, and a stellar cast. A+ production.
The only scene that I found interested in the Willis version was the poisoned rear-door latch while the van was being repainted. And even that, the dying actor hammed it up a bit too much - or did the director hold the camera on him too long (YES!). And Richard Gere's accent... good grief. It wasn't as bad as Anthony Perkins' in the powerful 1959 ON THE BEACH... Perkins' accent was truly the worst-ever. So needlessly, too.
@@theculturedthug6609 Thanks..."MCJ" doesn't earn a Pus-Worthy moniker... only Pus Van Zant has earned that. Oh, and I see that MCJ did Basic Instinct 2. Well, these are just jobs...
Citroen DS. That's a heck of a car, as it's unique suspension is said to help the car driving although attackers punctured a tire with the bullets. The car can hold itself upright with three tires. After this event Charles de Gaulle is said to just have been driven in this car. It is an icon and still said to be the most comfortable car due to the suspension even in comparison to newer ones
The suspension is of a very interesting kind. It features hydraulics and "normal" air suspension in the same package, which results in a system able to absorb bumps and self-level. The Citroen DS was the first car to really use this hydropneumatic suspension system, and at the time the bar wasn't very high for comfortable suspension. Most cars were on leaf springs, and some had shock absorbers. The hydropneumatic system could absorb bumps like nothing of the time. It was patented, and licensed to Rolls-Rouce, Maserati, and BMW for example. However it was not ready when it was released. The hydraulic fluid used attracted moisture, and the whole system began rusting away leading to leaks. It was a rare system on the road and could only be serviced at specific mechanics, and it really needed servicing. Hydropneumatic systems in general gained a reputation for being too complex and unreliable, and fell off. Only Citroen themselves continued to use them, so even when they "solved" the reliability problems (as much as you can expect from a French automaker), they are still difficult to maintain due to the need to be serviced at a specialised mechanic. Other brands started looking at simpler systems for adjustable ride charteristics, like "normal" air suspension and electronically adjustable conventional shocks, and soon those became the norm. In theory, the hydropneumatic suspension system doesn't have many disadvantages compared to todays complex conventional and air suspension systems, but it offers some inherent benefits. It was ahead of it's time, and failed to catch on good enough. I don't think conventional suspension systems have any need to be replaced by hydropneumatic ones in normal cars, but in today's premium executive cars, the system would be a simplification compared to complex electronically adjusting "normal" suspension. It would be interesting to see one of today's mainstream car brands have another go at it.
A few Book vs Movie Discrepancies: - The wave of bank robberies took place as soon as Jackal concluded his meeting with the OAS bosses. It was a wave of robberies because the Dollar value was extremely high back then, half a million in the 1960's probably equate to trillions today in 2024. Part of the reason Jackal demanded a lot of money is because due to the OAS's repeated assassination attempts on Du Gaulle; their Alert Levels are at an all-time high. Even if he kills Du Gaulle, he will now live as a hunted man. - Viktor Kowalski could not have been abducted in Italy. In the Book's introductory chapters, OAS brain man Antoine Argoud was abducted by the French Secret Servicemen in West Germany (Germany was divided into back then) and shipped back to France. Because of this little stunt, no country would ever help France again, they would intercept the Secret Service guys, and let their prisoner go. Instead, they studied Kowalski's profile and found out he had an illegitimate daughter posing as another man's child. They used her as leverage for force Viktor to return to France on his own. - After commissioning his rifle and fake ID's in Belgium, The Jackal scouts out France looking for his possible shooting points, finally deciding on the top-floor apartment. He even sneaks inside to have a look around. During that time, he has a run-in with Du Gaulle and (unknowingly) Jacqueline (Denise in the movie). - Valmy is in Paris, not London. He is also the guy that calls Rome after Kowalski's abduction and suggests aborting the mission. Just like in the movie, the Jackal continues anyway as he is confident he will succeed. Valmy is later arrested late in the novel, just as the Jackal calls. Claude Lebel picks up but is unable to impersonate Valmy; alerting the Jackal that his informant has been compromised. - Claude Lebel had daily meetings with the various Security Heads in Paris. A lot of it was getting updates on possible candidates to the Jackals identity. As the story progressed the list got shorter and shorter as they learned the candidate was either dead, working elsewhere(one guy who seemed to match The Jackals skill level was working in security for a diamond mind in South Africa), or looks too different or too old to be the Jackal. Some of the officers start grumbling about how slow it is taking, and Lebel then counters by offering them his position...so that if they screw up they will face the consequences. They shut their mouth. - The "Charles Calthrop" angle was meant to be a red herring. Nowhere in the Book does the Jackal ever confirm even in his thoughts of his knowledge of the Trujillo assassination. The whole point of this angle was to show the dangers of going by second-hand rumors. The real impact of the Charles Calthrop angle however, was to double the efforts of Scotland Yard. The knowledge of Calthrop happened because the British Inspector started asking around MI-6 if they have rumors of any super assassins. One guy then mentioned a rumor in the Dominican Republic that a sniper shot through a tiny unarmored window on a fast-moving armored car, killing the driver and leading to Trujillo's death. The MI-6 guy then volunteers to check the files because rumor or not; a report should have been filed anyway. After giving out this info and Charles Calthrop's name, some higher-ups reprimand him for helping France. In response the Prime Minster tells Scotland Yard to screw those guys and spare no expense to double their efforts in helping France. - Part of the reason the British believe Charles Calthrop was The Jackal was because he was conveniently away on a vacation and a neighbor saw him packing fishing rods, making them think it's a disguised gun. They couldn't find him until the end of the novel. Additionally when they interview his former employers; they find he was once involved with the Arms Industry. When the French bosses learn of this, they were eager to drop the case believing the Jackal had decided to abort the mission once his "true identity" was discovered. Only Lebel insisted they continue checking. - The discovery of Alexander James Quentin Duggan came in much, much later. Which led the British and French to conclude that either Calthrop was the wrong man, or Calthrop had picked Duggan as his false identity. It was this discovery that once again fires up the rest of the French guys to follow Lebel and continue investigating. Because the of Duggan picture, they were also able to discount many other candidates provided by the other countries. - The discovery of Duggan inside the hotel (which he shared with the Baronness) took over half a day before the report came through. When his bosses try to reprimand him, the higher ups reminds everyone that they cannot do it any faster unless they initiate a public manhunt, which is against the President's rules. If the Press were to find out that the police and secret service were frantically looking for someone, and in 1960...there was only one and one reason alone WHY. - The Jackal crashes his car deep in the woods to hide it, and it takes forever to get police to haul it away and examine it because everyone was looking for a white car, not a blue one (The Jackal had painted it and put a fake license plate), furthermore the whole village the Jackal was living in didn't like cops and thus nobody would talk even when asked. He actually stays in the chateau for almost a week while getting constant info from Valmy that the cops have lost the trail. He kills the Baronness when he finds out she was listening in on the calls. - The Jackal specifically picked an Italian Alfa Romeo due to it's chassis' underside having enough room for him to store his gun. This is how he was able to go through so much security checks, especially when entering France. He also had all his hair-tinting dyes stored in aftershave flasks. As aftershave was a new product and only a thing in America, customs dismissed it as nothing interesting. - Instead of a Turkish bath house, the Jackal goes to a gay bar while posing as an American student Marty Schulberg. He leaves with a gay lover and paints his face with makeup and acts foppishly, digusting and preventing the police from carrying out any checks on his luggage. As a result, he's able to lay low in the man's house for several days. - The French police have enlisted even the Union Corse; France's Mafia but even they cannot find the Jackal. - The Jackal "old war veteran" disguise involves a WW1-era greatcoat which looks very out of place, as well as tons of medals. This extracts pity from the Gendarme who lets him through without question. The long coat also helps him disguise the fact that he's really not a one-legged man.
@@joset.garcia8714The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth. Forsyth's pretty good, a better book and film adaptation of his is The Fourth Protocol starring Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan, playing the antagonist which undoubtedly won him his Bond roles, was a good Bond but a spine tingling Petrofsky. Really well paced thriller, that. Caine is also putting in his A game. If you like spook stuff Forsyth, good as he is, will always be in John Le Carre's shadow. Do yourself a favour and watch the BBC adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy starring Alec Guinness. It's up there with the best television ever made and only those in the know have ever seen it. No action scenes, doesn't need them. I've watched DOTJ, TFP and TTSS literally dozens of times and TTSS and its sequel Smiley's People are _the_ best television of the 20th century, imo. A near flawless adaptation and production of a seminal novel.
An excellent movie , so well written and made . All educated know that the French President was not assassinated and yet the movie still maintains the suspense . And the magnificent performance of Edward Fox !
I think the differences are substantial enough to enjoy both, but I do like this original although an education into France's post-war colonial politics spices the original up. A lot of that is added in the novel, which is well-adapted into this first DAY OF JACKAL film.
the Citroen's suspension system is credit with saving De Gaulle during an assassination attempt like the one seen at the beginning of the film @@inisipisTV
I have both seen the film, and read the book. The book goes into a lot of detail, about how each member of the OAS was connected to the organisation. After reading the book, I was glad that the Jackal was unsuccessful, as it shows him as a nasty piece of work. The fact that both the book, and film, are based on true events, is something powerful as well.
The Jackal's only real mistake was right at the end, after detective Lebel and the gendarme burst through the door and he kills the gendarme he shouldn't have bothered trying to reload, he simply could have taken out Lebel hand to hand, since he's quite good at that. He would then have had plenty of time to reload and take another shot at De Gaulle.
The novel and original film were superb for their detail, scripting and characters. Frederick Forsyth''s skills as a journalist on the political scene of the time contributed much to the gravitas and realism. He commented later that he didn't expect the loophole of applying for passports using the identity of someone who died in infancy to remain long after publication, yet cross checking birth and death records as part of the application process didn't begin until 2004.
9:15 -- The Jackal flies up to the room's wall -- and almost breaks down the whole movie set. Not sure why they kept this scene in the movie like this. Also note Derek Jacobi (now Sir Derek Jacobi) in one of his earlier roles as the chief cop's assistant.
Well it’s rather difficult when Charles De Gaulle never gets assassinated in real life. The whole opening Assassination attempt in the beginning of the movie is a real life incident and all those people are real life people. Even the 3 rebel officers who "hires" the Jackal are real life fugitives. Fredrick Forsyth was trying to mix in real life history with a fictional assassination plot in his book, unlike the American remake which is totally fictional.
I think this is the first late night movie that I watched with my grandpa at TV around the 80's, due to this was showing after 9:30pm. It was 12:30am when finished. And that's late for a 7-8 years old, that's why I remember this movie so vividly. My grandpa was also couching me and explaining those movie detail with me It was a master piece even on today standard
So the movie with Richard geer and Poitier is a remake wow didn’t know but a well written one as well the jackal . Good movie both of them love the review.
You mean the Bruce Willis THE JACKAL film in 1997, with Richard Gere and Sidney Poitier. (An aside: Jack "One Armed" Black does recover. Whew.) Actually, this film's differences - like Gere being a minor-league 'traitor' to his 'Oirish brethren'... that's an interesting twist, and havijng One-Armed Black play a far more annoying gunsmith is pretty interesting. Sailing across the Great Lakes border as part of a holiday regatta... on and on. But I end up preferring Michael Lonsdale as the quiet, unsung hero to Gere's hero. There are enough differences (advanced tech to use a van as a mobile gun-platform) to make both films memorable and worthy.
@@ollietsb1704Edward Fox who played the"JACKAL" portrays the character quite well in this movie and he also played Mueller the explosives Expert in the movie "Force 10 from Navarone", which stars Edward Fox, Harrison Ford,Carl Weathers,Richard Kiel and Robert Shaw( he played Quint in JAWS)
Mistake at 2:04. The two people he contacts are in Italy. Second mistake 5:05 - Valmy is in Molitor, a suburb in NW Paris, not in London. Third mistake - at 6:41 says that Lundquist is a preacher, when in fact he is a school teacher. Fourth mistake - at 7:49 says that August 25th is France's liberation from Nazi Germany. In actual fact it is the anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi Germany, not the whole of France.
Fantastic film. Worth decades of rewatching. Michael Lonsdale - the French detective - is such a great actor and character in this film. Of his 246 IMDB credits, few are released in the USA - but this film and the DeNiro thriller RONIN - are all some actors ever need. The book, too, is a terrific 'read' as well. Highest recommendation for thriller fans.
A few years later Fox was in A Bridge Too Far as Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks. There's a scene where Fox as Horrocks gets on stage and his men start applauding - a friend asked me why they were applauding and I said it was because they appreciated his trying to kill de Gaulle several movies earlier.
Strange anomaly with British Army ranks there. A Lieutenant is subordinate to a Major, yet a Major General is subordinate to a Lieutenant General. Why is that?
@@nectafarious8842 According to the internet a lieutenant general outranks a major general because the rank of major general is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general, which was subordinate to lieutenant general. The "sergeant" in the title was dropped over time, but the order of precedence remained.
It was probably as much money as the Jackal estimated his clients could afford, and sufficient reward to justify the risk. If the Jackal was too greedy, he risked being dismissed.
1:52 - the actor who plays Victor Wolenski also played Col Matthieu in "Battle of Algeiers". Jean Martin. 4:52 - Paul Lebel also played an information broker named "Papa" in the movie "Munich".
I always remember how the two thoroughly knew each other the first (and last) time they met: "Chacal!! Lebel!! - ratatatatat ..... " A classic suspense and mystery thriller - and not a special effect in sight.
Great book, everyone knew, or should have known that De Gaulle died in his sleep. Yet, I, along with a lot of readers were transfixed waiting to see if Lebell would catch him!
If you're talking about this YT video, it's utter fucking crap!! Why did they totally ruin a decent commentary with a pastiche AI voice that can't pronounce French names correctly?
Movie was fantastic, except the assassination attempt. Jackal had the PERFECT chance when they started the La Marseillaise. De Gaulle was standing there motionless for the entire song. They were all motionless and had zero chance of someone getting in the way. A solid TWO minutes him just standing there. First time I saw the movie I thought, "He should have blasted him during the anthem." Best part is that he tapped everyone's phone because he knew someone was spilling. The exploding bullet was amazing.
There were two unrealistic aspects to this film. First, when the Jackel wanted to pass through a border to another country and he's worried that his gun will be found by the authorities, he decides to stick the gun pieces into the exhaust system. He cuts about a 3-foot length out of the exhaust pipe. Then he welds a circular piece of metal to the exhaust pipe at the end closest to the engine.Then he puts the gun pieces into the gap that he had cut out. By welding that circular piece and covering up the existing exhaust pipe he has prevented the engine from running. An engine cannot run without a free flowing exhaust. The second thing that is unrealistic has to do with the height of General De Gaulle. The general was a very, very tall person but in the movie he was depicted as rather short
There are a couple of other background mistakes. The film is set in 1963, but many of the cars that are shown were not available until later in the decade - there is one view of the Elysée Palace courtyard in which a facelifted DS (with the swivelling headlamps) is shown, but this car wasn't available until 1968.
Police Commissioner Berthier and Deputy Commissioner Lebel. Seems like Freddy Forsyth chose his character names from the French Army armoury inventories.
The whole point of the ending (missed shot) was that the Jackal was English. The English don't kiss other guys (well mostly don't) so was not expecting de Gaulle to lean forward.
In the movie, I always thought, wondered, assumed that when the Jackal asks the guy who made the rifle, for a bullet, it was to kill him. No witnesses.
The summary above makes no mention of killing the gunsmith, but I'm pretty sure in the movie the Jackal kills him. Maybe they omitted that part in later releases. Could be wrong, my memory is ailing.
The bullet that the Jackal is hurriedly loading into his rifle when he is shot dead by Lebel was the last of his mercury-tipped assassin's bullets, and he therefore wouldn't have been able to assassinate de Gaulle had he been quick enough to shoot Lebel.
Of course it did! In the following decade he was a major character in a string of big movies - "The Duellists", "A Bridge Too Far", "The Big Sleep", "Gandhi". Often as a villain. I always thought he would have been a terrific James Bond though.
In case anybody was wondering why The Day Of The Jackal is one of the most taut cinematic thrillers there is, it's due to the fact it was helmed by the great Fred Zinnemann who helmed the 1952 Western masterpiece High Noon and 1953's From Here To Eternity which not only won the Best Picture Oscar but also awarded the Austrian-born filmmaker his first Best Director Oscar. He would win another Best Director Oscar for 1966's A Man For All Seasons, which also won for Best Picture.
I really liked the Bruce Willis remake, but I think this is the better of the two movies. Edward Fox was brilliant, as was Michael Lonsdale. Highly recommend...
You say the Jackal is an Englishman. Whist it is true, that is how he is portrayed, at the end the British policeman points out they have no idea who he is, and he took on half a dozen nationalities through the operation. He could have been born anywhere and have any nationality. He was a complete unknown.
Forsythia lived in Ireland for a while and I had the opportunity to buy his rifle a Walther .22 because I knew the owner of the gunshop in Bray, Co.Wicklow. the only reason I turned down the offer was that I already owned a similar model. I sure Forsyth used his experience with the rifle and telescopic sights in writing ' Day Of The Jackal'.
i actually recreated the lil rifle from this movie. mine is no where near as precise or pretty as the one in the movie but its still fun to plink with.
In the original movie, the Jackal shot the Armorer to death with a bullet made by the Armorer. This murder has for years been deleted in the TV version of the movie. In the book there is no Baroness. That Baroness story was added to spice up the movie and made the movie better than the book.
This movie is one of the very few that is the equal of the book. Every scene is important to the plot, no filler.
agreed
and The Godfather is a film that is vastly superior to its source book
EIGER SANCTION is a solid version, too. I much prefer SILENCE OF LAMBS movie to the book, with the differences being the filmmakers eschewed the soft-porn chapters and adultery themes. JAWS, by the way, is a childishly-written book by apparently Peter "I'm a 3rd Grader!" Benchley - just HORRIBLE. And with his own porn insertions as if that'd be keen. But his follow-up THE DEEP was very well written and THAT film is excellent, too.
It is ONE of my favorite movies of all time
I was in the Air Force stationed in France in this period (totally oblivious to all of the Algerian events). One night four of us were in Paris driving around and we accidentally passed de Gaulle’s residence twice.
We were stopped by some military guy who sticks his face along with his automatic weapon into our vehicle and tells us in broken English “do not drive past this house a third time”!
We were stopped by a guy who stuck* his face (...) and told* us ...
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@@einundsiebenziger5488 He's speaking colloquial English.
Glad that you were not arrested and taken for "inquisition".
De Gaulle deployed not only French Intelligence but contractors to work at breaking the OAS. They included Vietnamese skilled in interrogation. You would have remembered their methods of interrogation.
Fortunately he accepted our U.S. military ID
Michel Lonsdale was superb as lebel, and I loved the way once he's done all the hard work it's taken out of his hands, so very true to like in so many cases.
Was he Drax in Moonraker? It looks like him.
This version was so much better than the remake with Bruce Willis!
It's total crap.
No match to this movie
Same as almost all American remakes it's completely overdone - too many too big guns, too fast-paced and over-acted.
@@einundsiebenziger5488 Yep
This movie is great, but you should read a book 📖
This movie is a masterpiece! There was an attempt to recreate this story years later on the big screen and it SUCKED! The 1973 production had superior writing, brilliant directing, and a stellar cast. A+ production.
100% correct!
Yes, it's very subtle but still tense. Superb directing.
The only scene that I found interested in the Willis version was the poisoned rear-door latch while the van was being repainted. And even that, the dying actor hammed it up a bit too much - or did the director hold the camera on him too long (YES!). And Richard Gere's accent... good grief. It wasn't as bad as Anthony Perkins' in the powerful 1959 ON THE BEACH... Perkins' accent was truly the worst-ever. So needlessly, too.
@@Cbcw76Michael Canton Jones directed.
@@theculturedthug6609 Thanks..."MCJ" doesn't earn a Pus-Worthy moniker... only Pus Van Zant has earned that. Oh, and I see that MCJ did Basic Instinct 2. Well, these are just jobs...
Citroen DS. That's a heck of a car, as it's unique suspension is said to help the car driving although attackers punctured a tire with the bullets. The car can hold itself upright with three tires. After this event Charles de Gaulle is said to just have been driven in this car. It is an icon and still said to be the most comfortable car due to the suspension even in comparison to newer ones
dayum a car guy nice
It’s a shit car. My parents had one.. the car was serviced x8 in a year 🤧🥲
@@oliver9541 Frederik parlait de la Citroen DS à l époque des années 1970 et non les DS restylés de maintenant.😉
The suspension is of a very interesting kind. It features hydraulics and "normal" air suspension in the same package, which results in a system able to absorb bumps and self-level. The Citroen DS was the first car to really use this hydropneumatic suspension system, and at the time the bar wasn't very high for comfortable suspension. Most cars were on leaf springs, and some had shock absorbers. The hydropneumatic system could absorb bumps like nothing of the time. It was patented, and licensed to Rolls-Rouce, Maserati, and BMW for example.
However it was not ready when it was released. The hydraulic fluid used attracted moisture, and the whole system began rusting away leading to leaks. It was a rare system on the road and could only be serviced at specific mechanics, and it really needed servicing. Hydropneumatic systems in general gained a reputation for being too complex and unreliable, and fell off. Only Citroen themselves continued to use them, so even when they "solved" the reliability problems (as much as you can expect from a French automaker), they are still difficult to maintain due to the need to be serviced at a specialised mechanic. Other brands started looking at simpler systems for adjustable ride charteristics, like "normal" air suspension and electronically adjustable conventional shocks, and soon those became the norm.
In theory, the hydropneumatic suspension system doesn't have many disadvantages compared to todays complex conventional and air suspension systems, but it offers some inherent benefits. It was ahead of it's time, and failed to catch on good enough. I don't think conventional suspension systems have any need to be replaced by hydropneumatic ones in normal cars, but in today's premium executive cars, the system would be a simplification compared to complex electronically adjusting "normal" suspension. It would be interesting to see one of today's mainstream car brands have another go at it.
@@Freedom-vnch English please? 🥺
The book and the film are absolutely superb. If you read the first 20 pages of the novel or watch the first 20 minutes of the film, you'll be hooked.
I love the book. One of the few movies where I rooted for the "bad guy". Would read it again.
the detail and logistical timing is better represented in the book vs the movie.
Yeah, me too.
8:58 went from the best to the worst assassin ever 😂
Was thinking the exact same. What a let down
@@4rled 😂
this why you should bring side arms into an op in case primary gun malfunction.
for the daily plaza hit to have happened it took
3' rifle men to make it work only in follywood do they make 1' man a whambo or jason boore
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Dealey not Daily
7:40 The part where the Detective talks about tapping them all is my favorite in the original movie.
A few Book vs Movie Discrepancies:
- The wave of bank robberies took place as soon as Jackal concluded his meeting with the OAS bosses. It was a wave of robberies because the Dollar value was extremely high back then, half a million in the 1960's probably equate to trillions today in 2024. Part of the reason Jackal demanded a lot of money is because due to the OAS's repeated assassination attempts on Du Gaulle; their Alert Levels are at an all-time high. Even if he kills Du Gaulle, he will now live as a hunted man.
- Viktor Kowalski could not have been abducted in Italy. In the Book's introductory chapters, OAS brain man Antoine Argoud was abducted by the French Secret Servicemen in West Germany (Germany was divided into back then) and shipped back to France. Because of this little stunt, no country would ever help France again, they would intercept the Secret Service guys, and let their prisoner go. Instead, they studied Kowalski's profile and found out he had an illegitimate daughter posing as another man's child. They used her as leverage for force Viktor to return to France on his own.
- After commissioning his rifle and fake ID's in Belgium, The Jackal scouts out France looking for his possible shooting points, finally deciding on the top-floor apartment. He even sneaks inside to have a look around. During that time, he has a run-in with Du Gaulle and (unknowingly) Jacqueline (Denise in the movie).
- Valmy is in Paris, not London. He is also the guy that calls Rome after Kowalski's abduction and suggests aborting the mission. Just like in the movie, the Jackal continues anyway as he is confident he will succeed. Valmy is later arrested late in the novel, just as the Jackal calls. Claude Lebel picks up but is unable to impersonate Valmy; alerting the Jackal that his informant has been compromised.
- Claude Lebel had daily meetings with the various Security Heads in Paris. A lot of it was getting updates on possible candidates to the Jackals identity. As the story progressed the list got shorter and shorter as they learned the candidate was either dead, working elsewhere(one guy who seemed to match The Jackals skill level was working in security for a diamond mind in South Africa), or looks too different or too old to be the Jackal. Some of the officers start grumbling about how slow it is taking, and Lebel then counters by offering them his position...so that if they screw up they will face the consequences. They shut their mouth.
- The "Charles Calthrop" angle was meant to be a red herring. Nowhere in the Book does the Jackal ever confirm even in his thoughts of his knowledge of the Trujillo assassination. The whole point of this angle was to show the dangers of going by second-hand rumors. The real impact of the Charles Calthrop angle however, was to double the efforts of Scotland Yard.
The knowledge of Calthrop happened because the British Inspector started asking around MI-6 if they have rumors of any super assassins. One guy then mentioned a rumor in the Dominican Republic that a sniper shot through a tiny unarmored window on a fast-moving armored car, killing the driver and leading to Trujillo's death. The MI-6 guy then volunteers to check the files because rumor or not; a report should have been filed anyway. After giving out this info and Charles Calthrop's name, some higher-ups reprimand him for helping France.
In response the Prime Minster tells Scotland Yard to screw those guys and spare no expense to double their efforts in helping France.
- Part of the reason the British believe Charles Calthrop was The Jackal was because he was conveniently away on a vacation and a neighbor saw him packing fishing rods, making them think it's a disguised gun. They couldn't find him until the end of the novel. Additionally when they interview his former employers; they find he was once involved with the Arms Industry. When the French bosses learn of this, they were eager to drop the case believing the Jackal had decided to abort the mission once his "true identity" was discovered. Only Lebel insisted they continue checking.
- The discovery of Alexander James Quentin Duggan came in much, much later. Which led the British and French to conclude that either Calthrop was the wrong man, or Calthrop had picked Duggan as his false identity. It was this discovery that once again fires up the rest of the French guys to follow Lebel and continue investigating. Because the of Duggan picture, they were also able to discount many other candidates provided by the other countries.
- The discovery of Duggan inside the hotel (which he shared with the Baronness) took over half a day before the report came through. When his bosses try to reprimand him, the higher ups reminds everyone that they cannot do it any faster unless they initiate a public manhunt, which is against the President's rules. If the Press were to find out that the police and secret service were frantically looking for someone, and in 1960...there was only one and one reason alone WHY.
- The Jackal crashes his car deep in the woods to hide it, and it takes forever to get police to haul it away and examine it because everyone was looking for a white car, not a blue one (The Jackal had painted it and put a fake license plate), furthermore the whole village the Jackal was living in didn't like cops and thus nobody would talk even when asked. He actually stays in the chateau for almost a week while getting constant info from Valmy that the cops have lost the trail. He kills the Baronness when he finds out she was listening in on the calls.
- The Jackal specifically picked an Italian Alfa Romeo due to it's chassis' underside having enough room for him to store his gun. This is how he was able to go through so much security checks, especially when entering France. He also had all his hair-tinting dyes stored in aftershave flasks. As aftershave was a new product and only a thing in America, customs dismissed it as nothing interesting.
- Instead of a Turkish bath house, the Jackal goes to a gay bar while posing as an American student Marty Schulberg. He leaves with a gay lover and paints his face with makeup and acts foppishly, digusting and preventing the police from carrying out any checks on his luggage. As a result, he's able to lay low in the man's house for several days.
- The French police have enlisted even the Union Corse; France's Mafia but even they cannot find the Jackal.
- The Jackal "old war veteran" disguise involves a WW1-era greatcoat which looks very out of place, as well as tons of medals. This extracts pity from the Gendarme who lets him through without question. The long coat also helps him disguise the fact that he's really not a one-legged man.
SPOILER AHEAD: Anyone else disappointed the jackel missed?
Yeah and he murdered three other people. Terrible!
Hahahahaha
No I’m not disappointed and that’s that
He didnt miss it but the author made him to miss it 😂
Yeah all that work. An he fell short.
A great adaptation of the book, as well, which had a more in-depth view of the Algerian Colonial effects inside post-war France.
What’s the book called and this movie?
@@joset.garcia8714The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth. Forsyth's pretty good, a better book and film adaptation of his is The Fourth Protocol starring Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan, playing the antagonist which undoubtedly won him his Bond roles, was a good Bond but a spine tingling Petrofsky. Really well paced thriller, that. Caine is also putting in his A game.
If you like spook stuff Forsyth, good as he is, will always be in John Le Carre's shadow. Do yourself a favour and watch the BBC adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy starring Alec Guinness. It's up there with the best television ever made and only those in the know have ever seen it. No action scenes, doesn't need them. I've watched DOTJ, TFP and TTSS literally dozens of times and TTSS and its sequel Smiley's People are _the_ best television of the 20th century, imo. A near flawless adaptation and production of a seminal novel.
@@joset.garcia8714 Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
@@joset.garcia8714 "The Day of The Jackal."
An excellent movie , so well written and made . All educated know that the French President was not assassinated and yet the movie still maintains the suspense . And the magnificent performance of Edward Fox !
I think his brother (James Fox) had a starring role in the movie "King Rat" .
The Day of the Jackal is a great movie 👍
One of the very few movies that was a good as the book
It’s a great movie, much better than the remake
I think the differences are substantial enough to enjoy both, but I do like this original although an education into France's post-war colonial politics spices the original up. A lot of that is added in the novel, which is well-adapted into this first DAY OF JACKAL film.
The movie is fantastic.
@@ollietsb1704the remake must rank as one of the worst in history
I like the remake, or at least the final act. The sequence with the CH-53E (which my old squadron provided) was badass.
@tde1964.
I don't recognise the remake!
Imagine a whole movie and you miss lmao
at that point i would just shoot myself
That's Life sometimes you miss 😂
It’s partly based on real life incidents and Charles De Gaulle lives.
the Citroen's suspension system is credit with saving De Gaulle during an assassination attempt like the one seen at the beginning of the film @@inisipisTV
Also: The Dead Zone
This is a gem, a master piece. Definetly on my top 10.
Of course the original is much better than the newer version.
I have both seen the film, and read the book. The book goes into a lot of detail, about how each member of the OAS was connected to the organisation.
After reading the book, I was glad that the Jackal was unsuccessful, as it shows him as a nasty piece of work.
The fact that both the book, and film, are based on true events, is something powerful as well.
I have a leather-bound version from B&N. It has a nice schematic of the rifle on the end boards.
What's the name of book
@@gezgin202 The Day Of The Jackel.
well if you a know a little contemporary history we know from the beginning the jackal will not succeed, but we are still cheering for him
@petermostyneccleston2884
You are confusing "The Day of the Jackal" with the crap remake!
Well, at least bots can't pronounce French names yet.
I really loved this movie and the main character. Any remake doesn't even come close.
August 1 Malayalam movie.. Best remake for this
So good even national security departments have studied it.
1962, France is in Chaos.
2023. France is in Chaos.
But in 1962 we had one of the greatest leader a country could hope fore; while now... better not talk about it.
2024. France is in chaos.-😔😲🥺
Plus ça change.... 🤷♂️
France does not merely shrug. It intermittently goes BANG!
Definitely in my my top 5. The book is outstanding as well.
The Jackal's only real mistake was right at the end, after detective Lebel and the gendarme burst through the door and he kills the gendarme he shouldn't have bothered trying to reload, he simply could have taken out Lebel hand to hand, since he's quite good at that.
He would then have had plenty of time to reload and take another shot at De Gaulle.
@peterbrown3608.
Correction, the remake is crap from beginning to end!
@@peterbrown3608 I wish the Jackal had gotten away, even if he failed..
The novel and original film were superb for their detail, scripting and characters.
Frederick Forsyth''s skills as a journalist on the political scene of the time contributed much to the gravitas and realism.
He commented later that he didn't expect the loophole of applying for passports using the identity of someone who died in infancy to remain long after publication, yet cross checking birth and death records as part of the application process didn't begin until 2004.
Edward Fox looks so natural wearing an ascot.
Tell me you don’t want the villain to win without telling me.
9:15 -- The Jackal flies up to the room's wall -- and almost breaks down the whole movie set. Not sure why they kept this scene in the movie like this. Also note Derek Jacobi (now Sir Derek Jacobi) in one of his earlier roles as the chief cop's assistant.
Dude killed three innocent people and missed his target.
killers are not alway's nice and unlike TV they don't have a moral compass and a conscience
Well it’s rather difficult when Charles De Gaulle never gets assassinated in real life. The whole opening Assassination attempt in the beginning of the movie is a real life incident and all those people are real life people. Even the 3 rebel officers who "hires" the Jackal are real life fugitives. Fredrick Forsyth was trying to mix in real life history with a fictional assassination plot in his book, unlike the American remake which is totally fictional.
Innocent of what?
Innocent - the criminal who tried to blackmail the Jackal?
Two innocent one blackmailer.
I read that there were more than 30 attempts to assassinate De Gaul. He survived them all.
Seen the film a few times and still enjoy it.👍
Edward Fox is so amazing in this film.
One of my favorite movies for many, many years.
I think this is the first late night movie that I watched with my grandpa at TV around the 80's, due to this was showing after 9:30pm. It was 12:30am when finished. And that's late for a 7-8 years old, that's why I remember this movie so vividly.
My grandpa was also couching me and explaining those movie detail with me
It was a master piece even on today standard
A great classic with tension and suspense to the end.
Whooof it go like a hole can of say baked beans the French are like that - resourceful, stylish and determined…
Amazed at the work these old movies did! 🧐
Outstanding movie. Better than most of today’s movies.
God, I hate AI narration. It's OAS, oaish.
I don't know why AI is used, it totally sucks.
So the movie with Richard geer and Poitier is a remake wow didn’t know but a well written one as well the jackal . Good movie both of them love the review.
You mean the Bruce Willis THE JACKAL film in 1997, with Richard Gere and Sidney Poitier. (An aside: Jack "One Armed" Black does recover. Whew.) Actually, this film's differences - like Gere being a minor-league 'traitor' to his 'Oirish brethren'... that's an interesting twist, and havijng One-Armed Black play a far more annoying gunsmith is pretty interesting. Sailing across the Great Lakes border as part of a holiday regatta... on and on. But I end up preferring Michael Lonsdale as the quiet, unsung hero to Gere's hero. There are enough differences (advanced tech to use a van as a mobile gun-platform) to make both films memorable and worthy.
@@ollietsb1704Edward Fox who played the"JACKAL" portrays the character quite well in this movie and he also played Mueller the explosives Expert in the movie "Force 10 from Navarone", which stars Edward Fox, Harrison Ford,Carl Weathers,Richard Kiel and Robert Shaw( he played Quint in JAWS)
@@MrCHAIRMANOFTHEBORED I didn't realize that the Jackal was the same as the guy in Force 10! Thanks!
Richard Gere* and Sidney* Poitier could not save the remake from being shitty.
Michael Lonsdale (Claude Lebel) was a great actor.
Remember him as Drax (Moonraker)? Or as Jean-Pierre in Ronin?
He was in two Maigret episodes with Bruno Cremer!!!!!
He's a brilliant actor. I thought he hammed it up a little in "Munich" and "Ronin", just over-acting slightly, but it was very entertaining.
Damn. I was rooting for the jackal lol
Mistake at 2:04. The two people he contacts are in Italy. Second mistake 5:05 - Valmy is in Molitor, a suburb in NW Paris, not in London. Third mistake - at 6:41 says that Lundquist is a preacher, when in fact he is a school teacher. Fourth mistake - at 7:49 says that August 25th is France's liberation from Nazi Germany. In actual fact it is the anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi Germany, not the whole of France.
@DANFORTHPAPE1
That channel gets many details wrong on every subject it talks about.
Wonderful film. Lost count how many times I have watched it and still hope the Jackal will win
Well snap, i though the jackal was going to get away with it…
Fantastic film. Worth decades of rewatching. Michael Lonsdale - the French detective - is such a great actor and character in this film. Of his 246 IMDB credits, few are released in the USA - but this film and the DeNiro thriller RONIN - are all some actors ever need. The book, too, is a terrific 'read' as well. Highest recommendation for thriller fans.
A few years later Fox was in A Bridge Too Far as Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks. There's a scene where Fox as Horrocks gets on stage and his men start applauding - a friend asked me why they were applauding and I said it was because they appreciated his trying to kill de Gaulle several movies earlier.
Strange anomaly with British Army ranks there. A Lieutenant is subordinate to a Major, yet a Major General is subordinate to a Lieutenant General. Why is that?
@@nectafarious8842 According to the internet a lieutenant general outranks a major general because the rank of major general is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general, which was subordinate to lieutenant general. The "sergeant" in the title was dropped over time, but the order of precedence remained.
This is a real good movie, with real actors and no stupid special effects.
The assassin asked for 500,000 USD which about 5 mil today. This seems to be super cheap to shoot the head of State.
times were simpler back then
It was probably as much money as the Jackal estimated his clients could afford, and sufficient reward to justify the risk. If the Jackal was too greedy, he risked being dismissed.
7:05 Per Lundquist was not a pastor but a Danish school teacher
He was a pastor in the book
Absolutely awesome movie. Roger Ebert's review of it took the words right out of my mouth.
I visited the Universal Studio Lot in the 1970's and I saw this Rifle in a Display case.
Such an underrated gem
1:52 - the actor who plays Victor Wolenski also played Col Matthieu in "Battle of Algeiers". Jean Martin.
4:52 - Paul Lebel also played an information broker named "Papa" in the movie "Munich".
I always remember how the two thoroughly knew each other the first (and last) time they met: "Chacal!! Lebel!! - ratatatatat ..... " A classic suspense and mystery thriller - and not a special effect in sight.
5:44 i’ve read a lot of census records from that time and absolutely none of them are that neat 😂😂
Yeah, but this is a movie 😂😂
Great book, everyone knew, or should have known that De Gaulle died in his sleep. Yet, I, along with a lot of readers were transfixed waiting to see if Lebell would catch him!
@@ericericson3535 Yes, isn't that the Hallmark of superb writing when you know the outcome, but still plow on? And then you're STILL disappointed!!
One of the very best movies ever made...great drama, acting, story...
This sums up french fantasy in a nutshell especially the whole part around de gaulle being liked.
bruh
More Freedom fries for you?
De Gaulle was not liked, you are right, he was revered, except by the far left and the far right, nostalgic of Pétain.
All i can say is (EXCELLENT VIDEO)
How did u get the emoji ?💀
If you're talking about this YT video, it's utter fucking crap!! Why did they totally ruin a decent commentary with a pastiche AI voice that can't pronounce French names correctly?
Movie was fantastic, except the assassination attempt. Jackal had the PERFECT chance when they started the La Marseillaise. De Gaulle was standing there motionless for the entire song. They were all motionless and had zero chance of someone getting in the way. A solid TWO minutes him just standing there. First time I saw the movie I thought, "He should have blasted him during the anthem."
Best part is that he tapped everyone's phone because he knew someone was spilling. The exploding bullet was amazing.
The only flaw on this movie is, assasin always have another weapon for defense but jackal dont have.
this why you should bring side arms into an op in case primary gun malfunction.
@@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 remember it's always faster to draw your sidearm than to reload.
... but Jackal doesn't* have one*.
In a nutshell, Drax ran the whole operation.
Pero al menos, Drax aquí no murió.-😂🤜🤛📺👏🎥🎞📽🎬📺🇨🇱
Nice to see this version. Postmodernism is salient.
There were two unrealistic aspects to this film. First, when the Jackel wanted to pass through a border to another country and he's worried that his gun will be found by the authorities, he decides to stick the gun pieces into the exhaust system. He cuts about a 3-foot length out of the exhaust pipe. Then he welds a circular piece of metal to the exhaust pipe at the end closest to the engine.Then he puts the gun pieces into the gap that he had cut out. By welding that circular piece and covering up the existing exhaust pipe he has prevented the engine from running. An engine cannot run without a free flowing exhaust. The second thing that is unrealistic has to do with the height of General De Gaulle. The general was a very, very tall person but in the movie he was depicted as rather short
He was very tall. I went to a wax museum that had a statue of him and he was towering over people
In the book they actually discuss that the people trying to keep him alive arrange to have tall people around him during public appearances.
The Jackal*
@@tommyle7376 CDG was 1.99 m or 6'6" tall to be exact.
There are a couple of other background mistakes. The film is set in 1963, but many of the cars that are shown were not available until later in the decade - there is one view of the Elysée Palace courtyard in which a facelifted DS (with the swivelling headlamps) is shown, but this car wasn't available until 1968.
Saw it in the theater when it came out. Fantastic movie.
Police Commissioner Berthier and Deputy Commissioner Lebel. Seems like Freddy Forsyth chose his character names from the French Army armoury inventories.
Thank you from 🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭
Great film, builds up the suspense even though you know he fails to kill De Gualle.
The whole point of the ending (missed shot) was that the Jackal was English. The English don't kiss other guys (well mostly don't) so was not expecting de Gaulle to lean forward.
In the movie, I always thought, wondered, assumed that when the Jackal asks the guy who made the rifle, for a bullet, it was to kill him. No witnesses.
The summary above makes no mention of killing the gunsmith, but I'm pretty sure in the movie the Jackal kills him. Maybe they omitted that part in later releases. Could be wrong, my memory is ailing.
The bullet that the Jackal is hurriedly loading into his rifle when he is shot dead by Lebel was the last of his mercury-tipped assassin's bullets, and he therefore wouldn't have been able to assassinate de Gaulle had he been quick enough to shoot Lebel.
'Not only have you failed so far, you've rather queered the pitch for everyone else.'
They should have hired Inspector Clouseau
Trump moved his head in time similar to Du Gaulle.
I am surprised that his film didn't make Edward Fox a big star.
Of course it did! In the following decade he was a major character in a string of big movies - "The Duellists", "A Bridge Too Far", "The Big Sleep", "Gandhi". Often as a villain. I always thought he would have been a terrific James Bond though.
@@kenoliver8913 I agree. He would have been a stellar Bond. Maybe after 1973 Mr. Fox would have been a mite too old . Thoughts, anyone?
I have watched this excellent film often. I still wonder if he killed the rifle maker?
Very British French.... but in a good way😊 Manchurian Candidate ending
In case anybody was wondering why The Day Of The Jackal is one of the most taut cinematic thrillers there is, it's due to the fact it was helmed by the great Fred Zinnemann who helmed the 1952 Western masterpiece High Noon and 1953's From Here To Eternity which not only won the Best Picture Oscar but also awarded the Austrian-born filmmaker his first Best Director Oscar.
He would win another Best Director Oscar for 1966's A Man For All Seasons, which also won for Best Picture.
This was awesome movie , thanks for summerising this
Love Lebel . Great cop.
Don't mind me, I'm just here to Observe....
Because that's my name.
I liked this movie, "The Day of the Jackal", much better than the movie, "The Jackal" starring Bruce Willis.
I really liked the Bruce Willis remake, but I think this is the better of the two movies. Edward Fox was brilliant, as was Michael Lonsdale. Highly recommend...
Automated voice-overs can't do diddley squat.
No, he doesn't make the gun - in both the novel and the film the gun is constructed for him by a retired armourer who works in Belgium.
Spielberg reportedly viewed this for inspiration in filming Munich.
Povera anguria!
You say the Jackal is an Englishman. Whist it is true, that is how he is portrayed, at the end the British policeman points out they have no idea who he is, and he took on half a dozen nationalities through the operation. He could have been born anywhere and have any nationality. He was a complete unknown.
i guess the movie with richard gere and bruce willis was a reimagining of this one.
Wonder who taught the AI voice to pronounce OAS "o-ash". OAS = Organisation Armee Secréte - not one "H" here!
Forsythia lived in Ireland for a while and I had the opportunity to buy his rifle a Walther .22 because I knew the owner of the gunshop in Bray, Co.Wicklow. the only reason I turned down the offer was that I already owned a similar model. I sure Forsyth used his experience with the rifle and telescopic sights in writing ' Day Of The Jackal'.
Great film, anytime it's on, I rewatch it.
If you liked "The Day Of The Jackal" you should see "The Killer" (2023).
Did DeGaulle look up at immigration chart?
i actually recreated the lil rifle from this movie. mine is no where near as precise or pretty as the one in the movie but its still fun to plink with.
Best adaptation of the novel.
In the original movie, the Jackal shot the Armorer to death with a bullet made by the Armorer. This murder has for years been deleted in the TV version of the movie. In the book there is no Baroness. That Baroness story was added to spice up the movie and made the movie better than the book.