Thursday, June 21, 2018

The Day of the Jackal (1973)

Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michael Lonsdale, Derek Jacobi, Olga Georges-Picot. 143 min. Rated PG. UK/France. Thriller.

Before the era of choppy nerve-wracking editing, before there was a John Williams to make the simplest scenes exciting, before mercenaries in movies delivered more muscle than brain-work ... there was this slow, engaging police procedural, based on Frederick Forsyth's bestseller, and directed by one of the best filmmakers of its time, about a fictional attempt on Charles De Gaulle's life. No, don't say it's an old movie. This was the foundation upon which the best spy thrillers today are made. Give yourself a chance to be mesmerized with proper film-making.

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