 7 on his list of the Top 10 films of the year for 1973.The film grossed $16,056,255 at the box office earning North American rentals of $8,525,000.Zinnemann was pleased with the film's reception at the box office, telling an interviewer in 1993, "The idea that excited me was to make a suspense film where everybody knew the end - that de Gaulle was not killed.