At the time, Fred Zinnemann, its director, was nearly ninety, living in London.

那时该片导演弗雷德·金尼曼住在伦敦，已近90高龄。

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For connoisseurs of the genre, all of this evokes the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock, along with Fred Zinnemann's "The Day of the Jackal, " and the associations are acknowledged.

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