Movie
Operation Crossbow
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1965-04-01
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Genres
- Drama, War, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Helmut Dantine as General Linz
- Barbara Rütting as Hannah Reitsch
Crew
- Michael Anderson - Director
- Derry Quinn - Screenplay
- Ray Rigby - Screenplay
- Emeric Pressburger - Screenplay
- Duilio Coletti - Story
- Vittoriano Petrilli - Story
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