Movies

August, 1973

Fact and fiction were woven together with formidable storytelling skill in Frederick Forsyth's best seller The Day of the Jackal, which described the attempt of a professional killer to assassinate Charles de Gaulle in 1963. The movie that director Fred Zinnemann has drawn from the book is professional, cool, intelligent, fastidious in its attention to detail and mounted with impeccable taste. Yet Zinnemann--whose impressive credits include The Nun's Story and A Man for All Seasons--is a precisi...