Operation Crossbow

• 6.748 Drama
• 1965-04-01
• 115 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Michael Anderson

Writer:

Emeric Pressburger Derry Quinn Ray Rigby