Kenneth Ross screenwrote "The Day of the Jackal" based on which author's 1971 novel?
The Day of the Jackal (film) The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 Anglo-French political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michel Lonsdale. Based on the 1971 novel "The Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.
Reginald Campbell Reginald Campbell (1894–1950) was a British writer. His novel "Poo Lorn of the Elephants" was filmed by Alejandro Jodorowsky in 1980 under the name "Tusk". Another novel, "Tiger Valley", was filmed in 1936 by Howard Bretherton as "The Girl from Mandalay". He described his personal experiences from Thailand in the book "Teak-Wallah: The Adventures of a Young Englishman in Thailand in the 1920s".