Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1965 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 1,160
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
PG-13, 1 hr. 56 min.
Drama, Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
Duilio Coletti, Vittoriano Petrilli, Richard Imrie, Derry Quinn, Emeric Pressburger
Jan 1, 1965 Wide
Jan 10, 2006
All Critics (10) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (2) | DVD (5)
Takes an unlikely scenario and ends it with an explosive fantasy James Bond-like finale.
...an entertaining, genuinely exciting adventure flick...
...expect some brutal scenes that might surprise you.... This is not your typically exaggerated, sentimentalized, glamorized spy yarn.
...a decent espionage escapade and a fairly suspenseful thriller that passes an entertaining few hours.
WWII tale of Nazi rocket plans has its moments; including Sophia Loren doesn't hurt.
A real good WWII espionage film. With a host of actors and actress. Sophia Loren plays a very short part in this movie, about the shortest I've ever seen her play. The Germans are developing the V-1 Bomber and The V-2 Rocket Missile. The British must get within the German factories to provide bombing information or
July 5, 2011Super Reviewer
This highly underrated war film is very similar to the guns of Navarone mode as far as the story is concerened. A group of allied soldiers are on a near impossible mission to destroy a german weapons base that is launching the dreaded V1 and V2 rockets to London. However, in many ways this film is better than the guns
March 30, 2010
Super Reviewer
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