Movie
Operation Crossbow
Released: April 1, 1965 (1965)
Runtime: 115 minutes
Genres: Drama, War, Thriller
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.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- John Mills as General Boyd
Age at release: 57
- Paul Henreid as General Ziemann
Age at release: 57
- Trevor Howard as Professor Lindemann
Age at release: 51
- Anthony Quayle as Bamford
Age at release: 51
- Lilli Palmer as Frieda
Age at release: 50
- Richard Johnson as Duncan Sandys
Age at release: 37
- George Peppard as Lt. John Curtis
Age at release: 36
- Sophia Loren as Nora Van Ostamgen
Age at release: 30
- Jeremy Kemp as Captain Phil Bradley
Age at release: 30
- Tom Courtenay as Robert Henshaw
Age at release: 28
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- Karl Stepanek as Prof. Hoffer
Age at release: 65
- Maurice Denham as RAF Officer
Age at release: 55
- Wolf Frees as German Police Inspector
Age at release: 55
- Milo Sperber as German Hotel Porter
Age at release: 54
- Richard Wattis as Sir Charles Sims
Age at release: 53
- William Mervyn as Dutch Technical Examiner
Age at release: 53
- Ferdy Mayne as German Officer
Age at release: 49
- Anton Diffring as SS Sturmbannfuhrer
Age at release: 48
- Helmut Dantine as General Linz
Age at release: 46
- Richard Todd as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Age at release: 45
- Allan Cuthbertson as German Technical Examiner
Age at release: 44
- Robert Brown as Air Commodore
Age at release: 43
- Patrick Wymark as Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Age at release: 38
- Barbara Rütting as Hannah Reitsch
Age at release: 37
- Moray Watson as Col. Kenneth Post
Age at release: 36
- John Abineri as German Policeman
Age at release: 36
- George Mikell as German Officer
Age at release: 35
- John Fraser as Flight Lt. Kenny
Age at release: 34
- Sylvia Syms as Constance Babington Smith
Age at release: 31
- Philip Madoc as German Police Officer
Age at release: 30