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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569795525
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, Subtitled
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 18862
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 01, 1965
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Description:
A fearsome rumor reaches Britain's World War II command. The Nazis are developing rocket technology that could rain death on London and, then, New York. Quickly, England develops a plan to send saboteurs into the sites manufacturing the rockets. Just moments after the carefully chosen commandos parachute into the drop zone, their pilot receives an urgent message. The mission may be compromised. Abort. Operation Crossbow is the partly fact-based tale of how that team succeeded against daunting odds. Michael Anderson (The Dam Busters, Logan's Run) directs, guiding a huge cast in a film that builds to a spectacular finale, yet never neglects war's unsparing personal costs. As a record of a wartime espionage incursion and as an intrigue-filled thriller, Operation Crossbow is on both counts Operation Accomplished.
DVD Features:
Featurette:Vintage Featurette A Look Back at Crossbow
Theatrical Trailer
Amazon.com:
Operation Crossbow was one among many '60s films aiming, in the wake of The Guns of Navarone, to cash in on nostalgia for "the Good War" of 20 years earlier, plus snag a share of the spy-movie market stoked by James Bond. A decent-enough stiff-upper-lip thriller in its day, it's yet more enjoyable now. The nostalgia has deepened to include affectionate enjoyment of a fine, big cast now mostly departed, dependably hitting their marks in a jolly good yarn.
The tale begins around the midpoint of the war, with Hitler aspiring to hurl a second Blitz against London using "flying bombs" and rockets. The British War Office starts recruiting officers fluent in the necessary technical fields, as well as German, Dutch, and/or French--the languages of the Nazi-occupied countries from which the Germans are recruiting technical personnel. The screenplay follows two tracks: the Germans' progress with their new aerial weaponry, and the progress of the Allied infiltrators--chiefly Yank George Peppard, chirpy Englishman Jeremy Kemp, and Dutchman Tom Courtenay--sent to penetrate the V2 project.
Despite the resemblance between the Navarone caves and the underground V2 launch center, Crossbow is something of an anti-Navarone. Its heroes are resolutely small-scale, and the mission is fraught with more opportunities for horrible miscues and moral-ethical murkiness than commando derring-do. The most memorable, indeed disturbing, part of the film involves Sophia Loren as the apolitical wife of a collaborator she doesn't know has been killed (and his identity assumed by Peppard). John Mills and Trevor Howard are deliciously deadpan trading war-council flapdoodle at the highest echelon, and Anthony Quayle (the spiritual leader of the Navarone mission) does yeoman service in a tricky role. Time--or rather, the transfer to video--has also been kind to the film's thin, overlit Metrocolor and last-reel special effects, which looked feebler on theater screens. The writers include Michael Powell's longtime partner Emeric Pressburger (under the pseudonym Richard Imrie). --Richard T. Jameson
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This is a guys-on-a-mission picture that curiously doesn't introduce the guys or the mission until half an hour into the movie. When things get going it's really good, in fact, the middle third is great and delivers some really shocking reversals. The climax is then diluted with more scenes of missiles over Britain that simply aren't as exciting.
Everyone in the international cast is sensational. If there's a standout, it's Jeremy Kemp who perfectly pivots between British effeteness ... Read More
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I was disappointed by Operation Crossbow. It's not so much that it does not live up to its premise -- that of a big-budget WWII espionage thriller, but that the characters and performances are almost all uniformly flat and uninspiring.
George Peppard is at the center of the film and there is one big problem. He is supposed to infiltrate the most top secret base in Germany, but he can hardly speak a word of German. It's embarrassing to watch this American actor who obviously was too lazy to study ... Read More
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Historically interesting movie for those interested in the German Rocket program during WW11 and the activities of the Royal Air Force and the use of slave labor by the German Reich during WW11.
Interesting to all of us interested in flying things,airplanes and rockets
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Although this movie is great, action-packed is not the right words. The movie tells how three British spies infiltrated the German rocket development site for the V-1 and V-2. It has a wonderful cast including George Peppard as the main character. This movie is mostly based on fact and a great deal of care went into making it true to the story. The acting, sets, scenery, special effects, and music make it a WWII film well worth your time. So although it isn't action-packed, it keeps moving at a good pace, and ... Read More
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This film is similar to fictional Second World War thrillers by Alistair MacLean
like "Guns of Navarone", "Force Ten From Navarone" and "Where Eagles Dare" with the difference that this story is built around the true story of the German development of the infamous "V-weapons", the V-1 flying bomb (also known as the "doodlebug" and "buzz bomb" because of its pulse jet engine) and the V-2 ballistic rocket. Some of the characters in the story are real people such as Duncan Sandys, Prof. Lindemann and Nazi ... Read More
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