As the Jackal closes in on his target, a race against the clock ensues to identify and put a stop to a killer whose identity, whereabouts and modus operandi are completely unknown. Enter the Jackal (Edward Fox, Gandhi): charismatic, calculating, cold as ice. In a last desperate attempt to eliminate de Gaulle, they opt to employ the services of a hired assassin from outside the fold. Demoralized and on the verge of bankruptcy, the OAS leaders meet in secret to plan their next move. August 1962: the latest attempt on the life of French President Charles de Gaulle by the far-right paramilitary organization, the OAS, ends in chaos, with its architect-in-chief dead at the hands of a firing squad.
Two years later, director Fred Zinnemann (High Noon) turned a gripping novel into a nail-biting cinematic experience. In 1971, Frederick Forsythe shot to bestseller status with his debut novel, The Day of the Jackal - taut, utterly plausible, almost documentarian in its realism and attention to detail.
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