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The Final Curtain
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Small-screen Gems
THE DAY OF THE JACKAL It retained only a few aspects of the Frederick Forsyth 1971 assassin novel, which became the classic Edward Fox movie, but this was a slick contemporary redo. It made for a thrilling cat-andmouse chase between Eddie Redmayne a

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