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Operation Crossbow (later re-released as The Great Spy Mission) is a 1965 British espionage thriller set during the Second World War. This movie concerns an actual series of events where British undercover operatives targeted the German manufacturing facilities for experimental rocket-bombs.
Operation Crossbow: Directed by Michael Anderson. With Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills. Allied agents attempt to infiltrate a German rocket research site.
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- Action, Drama, War
- Michael Anderson
- 1965-04-01
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Allied agents go behind enemy lines to destroy a German missile base during World War II in. The 1960s saw a spate of big-budget, grand-scale international productions with large all-star casts of famed actors, many of them appearing only in brief cameos.
- Michael Anderson, Basil Rayburn
- Sophia Loren
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- Michael Anderson
- PG-13
- Sophia Loren
Allied agents attempt to infiltrate a German rocket research site. This is the story of the methods used to defeat Hitler's V1 (doodlebug) and V2 (rocket) "revenge weapons" towards the end of World War II. Even though the Germans were in retreat, these weapons could have turned their defeat into victory. This movie includes references to Hannah ...
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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Operation Crossbow, later re-released as The Great Spy Mission, is a 1965 British spy thriller and World War II film, 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.