Operation Crossbow 1965

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 111 min

genre: thriller

theme: spy

director: Michael Anderson

Score: 5 / 10

Operation Crossbow (later re-released as The Great Spy Mission) is a 1965 British espionage thriller set during the Second World War. This movie concerns an actual series of events where British undercover operatives targeted the German manufacturing facilities for experimental rocket-bombs.

Plot

In 1943, Nazi Germany is developing the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket. Technical issues with the V-1 lead the Germans to create a crewed version for flight testing, but the test pilots die flying it. Eventually, aviator Hanna Reitsch successfully flies the prototype, and realises that mechanical shifting of the missile's weight and change of speed requires the trim controls to be changed.

Cast

More details

author	Emeric Pressburger
contentLocation	Germany
director	Michael Anderson
editor	Ernest Walter
events	aviation World War II
genre	adventure thriller
keywords	a crewed version a9/a10 aggregate air force air raid arrest aviator bomb bomber command bombing of peenemünde in world war ii british intelligence british officer capture duncan sandys engineer factory fall fieseler fi 103r reichenberg fly flying bomb hanna reitsch id informant informer kill mittelwerk nazi germany occupied europe only way open parachute peenemünde peenemünde army research center project a raf bomber command raid rebuild rock royal air force search southern germany test test pilot undercover agent united states army air forces usaaf v-2 want winston churchill
musicBy	Ron Goodwin
producer	Carlo Ponti
productionCompany	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
publisher	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
theme	spy war