Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow

Movie |

Nazi | Rocket

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  • Genre(s): Action, Thriller, War
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Michael Anderson, Basil Rayburn
  • Cast(s): Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 55min
  • Music: A.W. Watkins,J.B. Smith,Ron Goodwin,Allan Sones,Gerry Turner
  • Award(s): Prize San Sebastián 1965 (Won) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Uncommon Valor
  • Story:
    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.
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6.6/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
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.
Ratings

6.6/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
Prize San Sebastián Award

Best Actress | 1965 | Lilli

BOX OFFICE

Budget 115,000 USD

Box Office Collection 3,700,000 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

For the scene in which a street is wiped out by a V2, the filmmakers destroyed a row of flats which were slated for demolition.

Hannah Reitsch (Barbara Rütting) was a real-life person. Reitsch was a German aviatrix, and at one time, Adolf Hitler's personal pilot. During the Battle of Berlin, Reitsch attempted to persuade Hitler to escape from the city in a small lightweight Fieseler Storch airplane.

As Sophia Loren was blacklisted in Arab countries because of her portrayal of a Jewish woman who survived a concentration camp, in Daniel Mann's Judith (1966), which was shot in Israel, this movie was shown in Beirut, Lebanon with all of the Loren bits removed. The movie poster was changed, and her name removed from the top billing. This movie was shown at the Cinema Strand and the audience never suspected Loren was part of this production.

MGM executives did not know the German characters would be speaking German (with subtitles) until they saw the rough cut. They wanted to have the German dialogue dubbed into English, but Director Michael Anderson persuaded them to keep the subtitled dialogue.

Duncan Sandys (Richard Johnson) was a real-life person. Sandys was Chairman of the British War Cabinet Committee for the Defence against German rockets and flying bombs. He was the son-in-law of British wartime Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill and was wounded during the in Norway in 1941, which resulted in him having a permanent limp.

Popular Dialogues

"Phil Bradley: The first rocket I built rose three feet into the ground. The second took off horizontally, went straight through a hen-house and killed 40 roosters. Bradley's Interviewer: How very discouraging for you. What did you do after that? Phil Bradley: Buried the roosters, sir."

"[Curtis is about to make a parachute jump out of an aeroplane] Lt. John Curtis: If you're chute doesn't open, change it for a harp! [Curtis jumps] Robert Henshaw: [shouting after Curtis] I'm not musical. [Henshaw jumps]"