Film

Operation Crossbow

1965 · 1h 55m · Drama · War · Thriller

Sabotage of Hitler's ingenious weapons of mass destruction...the V1 and V2 rockets!

IMDb

6.6

Rotten Tomatoes

75%

Metacritic

70

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.

Sophia Loren

Nora Van Ostamgen

George Peppard

Lt. John Curtis

Trevor Howard

Professor Lindemann

John Mills

General Boyd

Richard Johnson

Duncan Sandys

Tom Courtenay

Robert Henshaw

Jeremy Kemp

Captain Phil Bradley

Anthony Quayle

Bamford

Lilli Palmer

Frieda

Paul Henreid

General Ziemann

Helmut Dantine

General Linz

Barbara Rütting

Hannah Reitsch

Richard Todd

Wing Cmdr. Kendall

Sylvia Syms

Constance Babington Smith

John Fraser

Flight Lt. Kenny

Maurice Denham

RAF Officer

• Michael AndersonDirector
• Derry QuinnScreenplay
• Ray RigbyScreenplay
• Emeric PressburgerScreenplay
• Duilio ColettiStory
• Vittoriano PetrilliStory
• Carlo PontiProducer
• Erwin HillierDirector of Photography
• Ron GoodwinOriginal Music Composer
• Ernest WalterEditor

Operation Crossbow (1965) Original TrailerTrailer

Release date

April 1, 1965

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

PG-13

Budget

$115,000

Revenue

$3,700,000

Genres

Drama, War, Thriller

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