Operation Crossbow

Director: Michael Anderson

Overview

This big-budget, big-studio espionage film is set in the last years of World War II. George Peppard, Tom Courtenay and Jeremy Kemp parachute into Germany, with orders to destroy the Nazis' rocket base at Peenemunde. Featuring Sophia Loren as the wife of the Nazi collaborator whom Peppard is pretending to be, Operation Crossbow failed badly in its first release; MGM, deciding that the title misled moviegoers into thinking that the picture was a "Robin Hood" derivation, cleared up matters by renaming the film The Great Spy Mission.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/19/2006
UPC:	0012569795525
Original Release:	1965
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Time:	1:56:00
Sales rank:	8,883

Special Features

Vintage featurette: A Look Back at Crossbow; Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1; Theatrical trailer; Languages: English & Français; Subtitles: English (feature film only)

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Sophia Loren	Nora
George Peppard	Lt. John Curtis
Trevor Howard	Prof. Lindemann
John Mills	Gen.Boyd
Tom Courtenay	Robert Henshaw
Richard Todd	Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Sylvia Syms	Constance Babington Smith
Jeremy Kemp	Phil Bradley
Paul Henreid	Gen. Ziemann
Helmut Dantine	Gen. Linz
Richard Johnson	Duncan Sandys
Lilli Palmer	Frieda
John Fraser	Flight Lt. Kenny
Wolf Frees	Actor
Ferdinand "Ferdy" Mayne	Actor
William Mervyn	Actor
George Mikell	Actor
Barbara Rutting	Hanna Reitsch
Milo Sperber	Actor
Anthony Quayle	Bamford
Maurice Denham	RAF Officer
Patrick Wymark	Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Moray Watson	Col. Kenneth Post
Richard Wattis	Sir Charles Sims
Allan Cuthbertson	German Technical Examiner
Karel Stepanek	Prof. Hoffer
Jeremy Spencer	Actor
Robert Brown	Air Commodore

Technical Credits

Michael Anderson	Director
Emeric Pressburger	Screenwriter
Doug Goodwin	Musical Direction/Supervision
Ron Goodwin	Score Composer,Musical Direction/Supervision
Erwin Hillier	Cinematographer
Tom Howard	Special Effects
Richard Imrie	Screenwriter
Vittoriano Petrilli	Original Story
Carlo Ponti	Producer
Derry Quinn	Screenwriter
Basil Rayburn	Asst. Director
Ray Rigby	Screenwriter
Elliot Scott	Art Director
Sydney Streeter	Production Manager
Ernest Walter	Editor

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Operation Crossbow
1. Urgent Mission [2:09]
2. Credits [2:20]
3. Incomplete Knowledge [4:43]
4. Test Flight [3:32]
5. Pictures From Peenemünde [6:02]
6. Hannah's Success [4:08]
7. Bombing Target [3:06]
8. Candidate Interviews [5:56]
9. New Identities [5:35]
10. Bit of a Mess [4:17]
11. Marked Man [4:33]
12. Nora [3:38]
13. Prisoners [5:23]
14. Trust Me [6:36]
15. Familiar Faces [3:39]
16. Henshaw's Sacrifice [5:12]
17. Death in the Mirror [5:43]
18. Underground Factory [3:12]
19. Target New York [5:37]
20. Flying Objects [6:52]
21. Target London [5:03]
22. Infiltration Plan [3:56]
23. Raising the Alarm [3:53]
24. One Man In [2:58]
25. Playing for Time [4:05]
26. Target Peenemünde [2:27]
27. Building for the Future [1:24]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Operation Crossbow
   Play Movie
   Scenes
   Features
      A Look Back at Crossbow
      Theatrical Trailer
   Languages
      Spoken Languages: English 5.1
      Spoken Languages: Français
      Subtitles: English
      Subtitles: Off