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The Day of the Jackal (1973): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 action, thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It scores 7.8 on IMDb, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, 80 on Metacritic, 7.5 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 2 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 8 of 77 films from 1973 in our catalog and number 76 of 1,542 action films.
Billed cast: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Denis Carey.
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