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Operation Crossbow

6.7 115 mins Drama   War   Thriller   1965
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios   Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  
Director(s): Michael Anderson

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.

Casts of Operation Crossbow

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 RĂŒtting

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

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