Operation Crossbow
"Sabotage of Hitler's ingenious weapons of mass destruction...the V1 and V2 rockets!"
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.
Movie Details
Budget
$115K
$115,000
Revenue
$3.7M
$3,700,000
Languages
English
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Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
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Key Crew
Duilio Coletti
Story
Michael Anderson
Director
Emeric Pressburger
Screenplay
Carlo Ponti
Producer
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
Wolf Frees
German Police Inspector
Moray Watson
Col. Kenneth Post
Richard Wattis
Sir Charles Sims
