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Operation Crossbow
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.
1965 · Directed by Michael Anderson · 115 min · Drama · War · Thriller · 9 frames
Tagline
Sabotage of Hitler's ingenious weapons of mass destruction...the V1 and V2 rockets!
Crew
- Screenplay: Derry Quinn, Ray Rigby, Emeric Pressburger
- Cinematography: Erwin Hillier
- Edited by: Ernest Walter
- Music: Ron Goodwin
- Produced by: Carlo Ponti
Cast
- Sophia Loren as Nora Van Ostamgen
- George Peppard as Lt. John Curtis
- Trevor Howard as Professor Lindemann
- John Mills as General Boyd
- Richard Johnson as Duncan Sandys
- Tom Courtenay as Robert Henshaw
- Jeremy Kemp as Captain Phil Bradley
- Anthony Quayle as Bamford
- Lilli Palmer as Frieda
- Paul Henreid as General Ziemann
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, Italy
- Language: English, German
- Studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Budget: $115,000
- Box office: $3,700,000
- Themes: nazi, rocket, metrocolor
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