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Operation Crossbow

67 %|Apr 1, 1965|Drama, War, Thriller

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.

Featured Crew

Duilio Coletti
Story
Derry Quinn
Screenplay
Michael Anderson
Director
Ray Rigby
Screenplay
Vittoriano Petrilli
Story
Emeric Pressburger
Screenplay
George Blackler
Makeup Artist
Ernest Walter
Editor

Cast

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Sophia Loren
Nora Van Ostamgen
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George Peppard
Lt. John Curtis
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Trevor Howard
Professor Lindemann
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John Mills
General Boyd
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Richard Johnson
Duncan Sandys
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Tom Courtenay
Robert Henshaw
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Jeremy Kemp
Captain Phil Bradley
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Paul Henreid
General Ziemann
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Helmut Dantine
General Linz
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Barbara Rütting
Hannah Reitsch
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Richard Todd
Wing Cmdr. Kendall
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Sylvia Syms
Constance Babington Smith
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John Fraser
Flight Lt. Kenny
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Maurice Denham
RAF Officer
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Patrick Wymark
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
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Wolf Frees
German Police Inspector
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Moray Watson
Col. Kenneth Post
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Richard Wattis
Sir Charles Sims
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Allan Cuthbertson
German Technical Examiner
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Karl Stepanek
Prof. Hoffer
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William Mervyn
Dutch Technical Examiner
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Milo Sperber
German Hotel Porter
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George Mikell
German Officer
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Ferdy Mayne
German Officer
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Robert Brown
Air Commodore
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Anton Diffring
SS Sturmbannfuhrer
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Philip Madoc
German Police Officer
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John Abineri
German Policeman
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Charles Lloyd Pack
Technical Examiner
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Gertan Klauber
Soldier at Rocket Plant
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Jeremy Spenser
SS Officer at Rocket Plant
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John Ronane
RAF Dakota Pilot