The Allied Attempt to destroy the Nazi rocket program
Operation Crossbow gets its name from the Allied attempt to destroy Nazi Germany’s rocket program during World War II.<br /><br />The movie starts in 1943 before the invasion of France. Prime Minister Winston Churchill played by Patrick Wymark calls in Duncan Sandys played by Richard Johnson to investigate the Nazi rocket threat which the premier fears could stop the Normandy landings. Sandys puts together a team of experts to go over the intelligence, while the Germans have just completed their V-1 flying bomb. The movie does a great job showing the German rocket program with very realistic reproductions.<br /><br />The British decide to put together a secret team to infiltrate the German rocket factory and put it out of business. The spies pose as European engineers and scientists, but that causes all kinds of problems. One of which is one of the spies John Curtis played by George Peppard runs into the wife of the man he is impersonating played by Sophia Loren.<br /><br />The movie is a good but not great espionage thriller. It starts with the intelligence work the Allies had to do to find whether the Germans actually had functioning rockets yet. That is by far the best part of the film. It then has the spies dropped into occupied Europe. That's where the movie falters as the section is too long and the inclusion of Sophia Loren is superfluous to the story. The last act is the action part where they have to expose the underground factory to a British bombing raid. The first half is a good fictional telling of what actually happened. That's done well.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : They were schooled in sabotage… licensed to kill… and send to destroy the world's deadliest rocket base!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 site manufacturing the rockets. Just moments after the carefully chosen commandos parachute into the drop zone, their pilot receives an urgent message: The mission maybe compromised, Abort.Operation Crossbow is the partly fact-based tale of how that team succeeded against daunting odds, Michael Anderson 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..