As many cinephiles already know, the 1970s was a fantastic time for paranoid political thrillers (“The Parallax View,” “All The President’s Men”), assassin movies (“The American Friend”), and films based on the rising tide of terrorism (“Black Sunday”; in fact we devoted an entire feature to this genre several years ago).
One film that covered all those bases and was pretty popular then was 1973’s “The Day Of The Jackal,” directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale.
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