The Day of the Jackal (1973)

Barrie Ingham: St. Clair

Quotes 

• Lebel : The following conversation was recorded at 6:15 this morning. The number being dialed was identified as Molitor 5901.

  [plays a tape recorder for the council] 

  Denise : Hello.

  Valmy : Yes?

  Denise : Denise.

  Valmy : Valmy here.

  Denise : They know he's a Danish schoolteacher. They're visiting every hotel in Paris.

  [Lebel switches off the recorder] 

  Lebel : The contact was arrested an hour ago. Unfortunately, the information came from this room.

  Minister : Whose voice was that?

  St. Clair : [slowly rises]  I regret to have to inform you, Minister, that it was the voice of a friend of mine... she is staying with me at the moment... excuse me.

  [leaves] 

  Minister : I feel we owe you an apology, Commissioner.

  Lebel : Thank you.

• Commentator : The time elapsed from the first to the last shot was seven seconds. In all, more than 140 shots were fired. Sever bullets pierced the president's car; one came within an inch of his head. But, as if by a miracle, neither he nor anyone else was hurt.

• [first lines] 

  Commentator : August 1962 was a stormy time for France. Many people felt that President Charles de Gaulle had betrayed the country by giving independence to Algeria. Extremists, mostly from the Army, swore to kill him in revenge. They banded together in an underground movement, and called themselves the OAS.