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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.
- (5.5K)
- Action, Drama, War
- Michael Anderson
Crossbow was the code name in World War II for Anglo-American operations against the German long range reprisal weapons (V-weapons) programme. The primary V-weapons were the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket, which were launched against Britain from 1944 to 1945 and used against continental European targets as well. [ 3]
- August 1943-May 2, 1945 [1]
- Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands
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
Oct 30, 2019 · Abort. Operation Crossbow is the partly fact-based tale of how that team succeeded against daunting odds. Michael Anderson (The Dam Busters, Logan’s Run) directs, guiding a huge cast in a film...
- 4 min
- 109.1K
- Warner Bros. Classics
London officials learn of a plan by Nazis to create new, more destructive missiles during World War II. Working quickly to stop the potentially catastrophic movement, the prime minister calls for...
- (8)
- War, Drama
- PG-13
Allied agents attempt to infiltrate a German rocket research site.Director: Michael AndersonWriters: Duilio Coletti, Vittoriano Petrilli, Emeric PressburgerS...
