Operation Crossbow (1965)
April 1, 1965Release Date
Operation Crossbow (1965)
April 1, 1965Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
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
Patrick Wymark
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Wolf Frees
German Police Inspector
Moray Watson
Col. Kenneth Post
Richard Wattis
Sir Charles Sims
Allan Cuthbertson
German Technical Examiner
Karl Stepanek
Prof. Hoffer
William Mervyn
Dutch Technical Examiner
Milo Sperber
German Hotel Porter
George Mikell
German Officer
Ferdy Mayne
German Officer
Robert Brown
Air Commodore
Anton Diffring
SS Sturmbannfuhrer
Philip Madoc
German Police Officer
John Abineri
German Policeman
Charles Lloyd Pack
Technical Examiner
Gertan Klauber
Soldier at Rocket Plant
Jeremy Spenser
SS Officer at Rocket Plant
John Ronane
RAF Dakota Pilot
Vittoriano Petrilli
Story
Duilio Coletti
Story
Ray Rigby
Screenplay
Derry Quinn
Screenplay
Michael Anderson
Director
Emeric Pressburger
Screenplay
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 1, 1965
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 55m
Content RatingPG-13
Budget$115,000
Box Office$3,700,000
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This Movie Is About.
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Operation Crossbow (later re-released as The Great Spy Mission) is a 1965 British espionage thriller set during the Second World War. This movie concerns an actual series of events where British undercover operatives targeted the German manufacturing facilities for experimental rocket-bombs.
The film was directed by Michael Anderson and stars Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, and Tom Courtenay. The screenplay was written by Emeric Pressburger (under the pseudonym "Richard Imrie"), in collaboration with Derry Quinn and Ray Rigby, from a story by Duilio Coletti and Vittoriano Petrilli. It was filmed in Panavision and Metrocolor at MGM-British Studios.
Although it is largely fictional, the movie does touch on the main aspects of the operation, which was geared to thwart the German long-range weapons programme in the final years of World War II. The story alternates between Nazi Germany's development of the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket, and the efforts of British Intelligence and its agents to counter those threats. All characters speak in the appropriate language, with English subtitles for those speaking German or Dutch.