I'll say this about the OAS

Great movie of course. I dust it off and watch it every 4 years or so.

My thoughts after watching it again tonight:

First off I have to echo all the previous posters commenting on the Jackal's deadly hands. I love the movie but ultimately those scenes detracted from it. I think taking that route had a dual role which was 1)to show what a (unrealistically)skilled killer the Jackal was and 2) to sanitize the scenes for squeamish audiences---they couldn't show how messy it really is to kill someone with bare hands --It would have been too disturbing and long and drawn out.

Another thing that jogged back into my brain tonight was that I do not see what chance the Jackal would have had to make an escape at the end (after shooting DeGaulle). where does he go and how does he get there? He wouldn't have got out of the building and even if he did what disguise would he have ---that silly one legged vet get-up? With half of his head dyed gray and the other his own natural hair color. What was his game plan.....shoot his way to Italy?

Finally I have to hand it to the OAS ---they were able to at least get into contact with the Jackal and have a sit down with him. They had it all over all of the law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the free world who were not even able to identify the guy even after he ended up as a slab of meat on the dissecting table at the morgue.