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Operation Crossbow

1965 · 115 min

Directed by Michael Anderson. Written by Derry Quinn, Emeric Pressburger, Ray Rigby. Starring Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills.

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.

Critics 75% · audiences 53% · streaming on YouTube (free)

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