The Day of the Jackal/Trivia

==Trivia==
*The actors playing the French Cabinet have painfully English accents.
*Multiple items from the book were changed for the movie:
**The Jackal buys his gun and forged papers in Brussels.
**The Jackal is not involved in a car accident; it is not explained in the movie how the Jackal manages to move the body of the accident victim to his own wrecked car without being badly bitten by a nasty tempered German shepherd.
**The French Cabinet minister whose mistress is the OAS Spy resigns his post in the book, whereas in the movie he commits suicide. Likewise, in the book the, "Jackal" kills the Countess after she accidentally discovers that he is planning to kill De Galle. 
**The book also hints that the "Jackal" is a very expensive mercenary/killer for hire; his last two "jobs" are the killing of the Dictator Trujillo {killed May 30, 1961-a goof is that the book claims Trujillo was killed by rebels after his armored car was stopped by the Jackal killing the driver-when in fact Trujillo was killed in his automobile{!} and also killing of two German scientists who are involved in a Egyptian/former SS project of arming weapons of mass destruction against Israel. {The later project-which did exist-was the basis for Forsyth's book The Odessa File.}. It is unknown what other "jobs" the Jackal has undertaken.
**The "Jackal" was apparently associated with Belgium Mercenaries in Katanga Insurgency which started in 1960-as he apparently has no fingerprint record in England yet has experienced hand to hand combat training it is possible that he was former member of the French Foreign Legion-which would explain his involvement in African Wars. Apparently his mercenary pay was a source of income sufficient to keep an apartment in a very expensive part of London itself. He also has connections in the Middle East-he plans to retire after finishing the De Galle "job" to Beirut Lebanon-the "Switzerland" of the Middle East-although years later Beirut became a battleground for years! 
**Continuity errors found in the book:
***When his "employers" try to warn the Jackal that the French Security services know of his existence by telephoning his London Apartment, there is no indication that either the French or English authorities try to trace this number to the Jackal real identity-although unless of course he has registered in a false name! In the book the Jackal gives the Forger his real but soon to be expired Driver's license and claims that he cant use it since it belongs to someone now dead and he is banned from driving in Britian-it could be that the Jackal has faked his own death prior to becoming a mercenary-thus being "officially dead" he can't use the license since he runs the risk of being picked up by the police who discover that his license belongs to a "dead" man.
***When the Jackal is being buried the burial record is falsified to show he was a unknown foreign tourist killed in a car accident; since the "Jackal" is being publicly hunted for the Countess murder, it would have been more logical to have ended as "...the following day the body of unnamed man was buried...the burial record shows that it was that of an unknown burglary suspect who before being killed in a shootout with police in which an officer died was wanted for murder."
*In 1997, a remake was produced, which has as an unnamed Irish mercenary hired by the Russian Mob to commit a killing in Washington D.C.
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