Operation Crossbow (1965)

6.7/10 115 min Drama War Thriller

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.

Cast

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

Moray Watson

Col. Kenneth Post

Richard Wattis

Sir Charles Sims

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