Operation Crossbow (1965)
Sabotage of Hitler's ingenious weapons of mass destruction...the V1 and V2 rockets!
- Released
- Runtime 1h 55m
- Director Michael Anderson
- Genres Drama Thriller War
- Rating 6.7/10 (123 votes)
Synopsis
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Cast
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Sophia Loren
as Nora Van Ostamgen
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George Peppard
as Lt. John Curtis
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Trevor Howard
as Professor Lindemann
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John Mills
as General Boyd
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Richard Johnson
as Duncan Sandys
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Tom Courtenay
as Robert Henshaw
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Jeremy Kemp
as Captain Phil Bradley
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Anthony Quayle
as Bamford
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Lilli Palmer
as Frieda
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Paul Henreid
as General Ziemann
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Helmut Dantine
as General Linz
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Barbara Rütting
as Hannah Reitsch
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Richard Todd
as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
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Sylvia Syms
as Constance Babington Smith
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John Fraser
as Flight Lt. Kenny
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Maurice Denham
as RAF Officer
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Patrick Wymark
as Prime Minister Winston Churchill
- Wolf Frees as German Police Inspector
Crew
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Michael Anderson
Director
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Erwin Hillier
Director of Photography
- Ernest Walter Editor
- Ron Goodwin Original Music Composer
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Carlo Ponti
Producer
- Derry Quinn Screenplay
- Ray Rigby Screenplay
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Emeric Pressburger
Screenplay
