The movie Operation Crossbow (Original title Operation Crossbow) has in the main roles on Sophia Loren (Nora Van Ostamgen), Trevor Howard (Professor Lindemann), John Mills (General Boyd), Richard Johnson (Duncan Sandys), Tom Courtenay (Robert Henshaw), Jeremy Kemp (Captain Phil Bradley), Anthony Quayle (Bamford), Lilli Palmer (Frieda), Paul Henreid (General Ziemann), Richard Todd (Wing Cmdr. Kendall), Sylvia Syms (Constance Babington Smith), John Fraser (Flight Lt. Kenny), Maurice Denham (RAF Officer), Richard Wattis (Sir Charles Sims), William Mervyn (Dutch Technical Examiner), Ferdy Mayne (German Officer), Anton Diffring (SS Sturmbannfuhrer), Philip Madoc (German Police Officer), Charles Lloyd Pack (Technical Examiner), Jeremy Spenser (SS Officer at Rocket Plant) The release date of the movie is 01.04.1965. This movie it is produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . Filmed in the following locations: RAF Abingdon Parachute School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK . Production countries: United Kingdom Movie Genre: Movies Drama, Movies War, Movies Thriller, Movies Action
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.