The Day of the Jackal
“Nameless, faceless... relentlessly moving towards the date with death that would rock the world.”
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Genres
Action, Thriller
Studio
Universal Productions France
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Day of the Jackal performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$16.1M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$2M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
The Jackal
Edward Fox
The Jackal
Lloyd
Terence Alexander
Lloyd
Colonel Rolland
Michel Auclair
Colonel Rolland
the Minister
Alan Badel
the Minister
Inspector Thomas
Tony Britton
Inspector Thomas
Casson
Denis Carey
Casson
Gunsmith
Cyril Cusack
Gunsmith
General Colbert
Maurice Denham
General Colbert
Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
Michael Lonsdale
Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
Interrogator
Vernon Dobtcheff
Interrogator
Pascal
Jacques François
Pascal
Denise
Olga Georges-Picot
Denise
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