Operation Crossbow
(1965)
Operacion Crossbow
Sabotage of Hitler's ingenious weapons of mass destruction...the V1 and V2 rockets!
Stars: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson
Director: Michael Anderson
Writer: Duilio Coletti, Vittoriano Petrilli
Language: English
Studio: Warner Home Video
Duration: 115
Rated: PG-13
This is the story of the methods used to defeat Hitler's V1 (doodlebug) and V2 (rocket) "revenge weapons" towards the end of the second world war. Even though the Nazis were in retreat these weapons could have turned their defeat into victory. The film includes references to Hannah Reich, who in real life was a test pilot and really did fly some of the first 'flying bombs'.
| Sophia Loren | Nora |
| George Peppard | Lt. John Curtis |
| Trevor Howard | Professor Lindemann |
| John Mills | General Boyd |
| Richard Johnson | Duncan Sandys |
| Tom Courtenay | Robert Henshaw |
| Jeremy Kemp | Phil Bradley |
| Anthony Quayle | Bamford |
| Lilli Palmer | Frieda |
| Paul Henreid | General Ziemann |
| Helmut Dantine | General Linz |
| Barbara Rütting | Hannah Reitsch (as Barbara Rueting) |
| 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 |
| Allan Cuthbertson | German Technical Examiner |
| Karel Stepanek | Prof. Hoffer |
| William Mervyn | Dutch Technical Examiner |
| Milo Sperber | German Hotel Porter |
| George Mikell | German Officer at V2 Launch |
| Duilio Coletti | Story |
| Ferdy Mayne | German Officer at rocket plant |
| Vittoriano Petrilli | Story |
| Robert Brown | Air Commodore |
| Basil Dignam | British Army Officer (scenes deleted) |
| Billy Dean | German Soldier |
| Gordon Jackson | R.A.F. Pilot (scenes deleted) |
| John Le Mesurier | British Army Officer (scenes deleted) |
| John Abineri | A German (uncredited) |
| John Alderton | RAF 'Dakota' Navigator (uncredited) |
| George Lane Cooper | Power Plant Operator (uncredited) |
| John Adams | Officer Toasting Hannah Reitsch |
| Guy Deghy | Dutch Barge Skipper (uncredited) |
| Harold Coyne | Foreign Engineer (uncredited) |
| Anton Diffring | German Soldier (uncredited) |
| Maxwell Craig | German Soldier (uncredited) |
| Tony Allen | German Officer |
| Frank Foley | Parachute Instructor (uncredited) |
| George Curtis | German Policeman (uncredited) |
| Jack Armstrong | Man in Air Raid Shelter |
| John G. Heller | German Officer in Charge of V2 Launch (uncredited) |
| Bernard Barnsley | Power Plant Operator |
| Drewe Henley | (uncredited) |
| Joe Beckett | RAF Officer |
| Gertan Klauber | Security guard, rocket plant (uncredited) |
| Carl Duering | German Officer Arriving at Rocket Plant (uncredited) |
| Ernest Blyth | German Officer Leaving Drinks Party |
| Charles Lloyd Pack | Technical Examiner (uncredited) |
| Bob Bryan | Power Plant Operator |
| Philip Madoc | German Police Officer (uncredited) |
| David Hadda | V1-Rocket Test Pilot (uncredited) |
| Tony Castleton | SS Officer |
| John Ronane | RAF 'Dakota' Pilot (uncredited) |
| Paul Hansard | German Policeman (uncredited) |
| Vic Chapman | Projectionist |
| Jeremy Spenser | SS Officer at Rocket Plant (uncredited) |
| Philo Hauser | Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited) |
| Erwin Hillier | Cinematographer |
| Gerard Heinz | German Officer (uncredited) |
| Jack Cooper | German Soldier |
| Ernest Walter | Film Editor |
| Billy Cornelius | Power Plant Operator |
| J.B. Smith | Sound Department |
| Allan Sones | Sound Department |
| Carl Jaffe | German Officer at Rocket Plant (uncredited) |
| Gerry Turner | Sound Department |
| Dan Cressey | Air Commodore's Driver |
| A.W. Watkins | Sound Department |
| Roy Lansford | Army Officer (uncredited) |
| Ron Goodwin | Composer |
| Jack Dearlove | German Officer |
| Elliot Scott | Art Director |
| George Blackler | Makeup Artist |
| Rudolph Offenbach | Rocket Launch Leader (uncredited) |
| Basil Rayburn | Assistant Director |
| James Payne | Lorry Driver in Airfield (uncredited) |
| Stuart Black | second assistant director |
| Vince Fleming | British Airman |
| Paddy Ryan | Power Plant Operator (uncredited) |
| Richard Shaw | German Officer (uncredited) |
| Victor Harrington | Man in Air Raid Shelter |
| Fred Wood | Mess Steward (On the Right) (uncredited) |
| Alan Harris | German Soldier |
| Hubert Hill | Officer Interviewee |
| Sydney Streeter | Production Manager |
| Lew Hooper | German Officer |
| John Howard | SS Officer |
| Roger Simons | second assistant director (uncredited) |
| John Ketteringham | German Police Officer |
| Willem Mooijman | props language advisor (uncredited) |
| Philip Johns | German Police Officer |
| John Lynn | Foreign Engineer |
| Tom Howard | Special Effects |
| Alf Mangan | Foreign Engineer |
| Martin Gutteridge | special effects (uncredited) |
Genre: War, WWII
Media: DVD
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
IMDb: 0059549
