Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Day of the Jackal (film)" in English language version.
Day Of The Jackal is not a great film, but it's a damn good one, one of the very few films released this year that is worth all the trouble and expense of going out to the movies. Zinnemann has a self-effacing directorial style; give him a good yarn and he tells it without any personal intrusions and attention-getting tics.
Kenneth Ross's screenplay [a film adaptation of Forsyth's novel], leads the viewers through a maze of detail work on both sides of the law, yet the performance and the direction never allow the film to become tedious
The Day of the Jackal is a meticulously constructed thriller with surprising irreverence and taut direction.
