Frederick Forsythe, master storyteller and suspense-novelist, retired in 1997, and that was a damn shame. Since 1971, Forsythe has fabricated some of the best intrigue and espionage novels in the world, and many of his books have become films, among them The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, and The Fourth Protocol. Perhaps best-known of his novels is his first, The Day of the Jackal, a work that was so overwhelming in its craft and detail that …showed first 75 words of 1999 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1999 total…and there, is still the best home video of the film yet made available. The sound is the original 1.0, and I guess I'm not too bothered that somebody didn't try to muck it up with a new 5.1 mix. But The Day of Jackal also has a street price around $10 less than its high-tech counterpart. My advice is to take that extra ten bucks and get a couple of Forsythe novels at your local second-hand bookstore.