This bigbudget, bigstudio espionage film is set in the last years of world war ii. Actionpacked story of a small group of military agents who are ordered to blow up a secret nazi missile facility during wwii. I researched crossbow like an fbi man on a murder case, flying to the states, france, holland, belgium, switzerland and germany because the story. Sabotage of hitlers ingenious weapons of mass destruction. Media in category operation crossbow the following files are in this category, out of total. V weapons and the origins of operation crossbow bbc. Operation crossbow is an actionpacked story of world war ii, based on fact, about a small group of allied agents who are ordered to blow up a secret nazi missile facility at peenemunde. Rent operation crossbow 1965 on dvd and bluray dvd. The heroic tales of world war ii are legendary, but operation crossbow is a little known story that deserves to join the hall of fame. It was directed by michael anderson and written by emeric pressburger, under the pseudonym richard imrie, derry quinn and ray rigby from a story from duilio coletti and vittoriano petrilli.
Maybe i would react the same way now i am so many years older, but indeed i did. Operation crossbow was launched late 1943 and bombing of the ski sites began two days before christmas. Rent operation crossbow 1965 starring sophia loren and george peppard on dvd and bluray. Operation crossbow is a sometimes suspenseful war melodrama said to be based upon british attempts to find and destroy germanys development of new secret weapons longrange rockets in the. The film grabs you by the throat and it does not let. Released 1965, operation crossbow stars sophialoren, georgepeppard, trevorhoward, johnmills the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 56 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic. Published may 1st 20 by random house uk first published september 27th 2011. Allied agents attempt to infiltrate the nazis rocket research site. A copy can be downloaded for personal noncommercial research or study, without. The film alternates between german developments of the v1 missile and v2 rocket with a german cast. The works in france were the german site system 1 which was to be 96 fixed. Absorbing wwii documentary revealing the littleknown story of how heroic spitfire pilots and top minds at raf medmenham combined to thwart the nazis from developing superweapons.
Working quickly to stop the potentially catastrophic movement, the. Crossbow was the code name in world war ii for angloamerican operations against the. I saw operation crossbow at the cinema when it first came out and i was glued to the seat in suspense. Operation crossbow, later rereleased as the great spy mission, is a 1965 british spy thriller. Documentary telling the littleknown story about how the allies used 3d photographs to thwart the nazis superweapons before they could. Carlo ponti, richard imrie, derry quinn, ray rigby, duilio coletti. Operation crossbow, later rereleased as the great spy mission, is a 1965 british spy thriller and second world war metrocolor film about operation crossbow 1943. With sophia loren, george peppard, trevor howard, john mills. Operation crossbow by michael anderson michael anderson. The roommate 2011 bluray 720p dts x264crossbow the stepfather 2009 unrated 1080p bluray dts x264crossbow the saratov approach 20 1080p bluray dd5. Photographic interpreters pis from raf medmenham working in aerial reconnaissance recount how.
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