Operation Crossbow

6.7

115 minutes

4/1/1965

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.

Cast List

Sophia Loren
as Nora Van Ostamgen
George Peppard
as Lt. John Curtis
Trevor Howard
as Professor Lindemann
John Mills
as General Boyd
Richard Johnson
as Duncan Sandys
Tom Courtenay
as Robert Henshaw
Jeremy Kemp
as Captain Phil Bradley
Anthony Quayle
as Bamford
Lilli Palmer
as Frieda
Paul Henreid
as General Ziemann
Helmut Dantine
as General Linz
Barbara Rütting
as Hannah Reitsch
Richard Todd
as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Sylvia Syms
as Constance Babington Smith
John Fraser
as Flight Lt. Kenny
Maurice Denham
as RAF Officer
Patrick Wymark
as Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Wolf Frees
as German Police Inspector
Moray Watson
as Col. Kenneth Post
Richard Wattis
as Sir Charles Sims
Allan Cuthbertson
as German Technical Examiner
Karl Stepanek
as Prof. Hoffer
William Mervyn
as Dutch Technical Examiner
Milo Sperber
as German Hotel Porter
George Mikell
as German Officer
Ferdy Mayne
as German Officer
Robert Brown
as Air Commodore
Anton Diffring
as SS Sturmbannfuhrer
Philip Madoc
as German Police Officer
John Abineri
as German Policeman
Charles Lloyd Pack
as Technical Examiner
Gertan Klauber
as Soldier at Rocket Plant
Jeremy Spenser
as SS Officer at Rocket Plant
John Ronane
as RAF Dakota Pilot