Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow (1965)

  • 60% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 52% of users liked it
    (1,173 ratings)

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… More

In Theaters
Jan 1, 1965 Wide
On DVD
Jan 10, 2006

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Takes an unlikely scenario and ends it with an explosive fantasy James Bond-like finale.

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    ...an entertaining, genuinely exciting adventure flick...

  • John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

    ...expect some brutal scenes that might surprise you.... This is not your typically exaggerated, sentimentalized, glamorized spy yarn.

  • John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

    ...a decent espionage escapade and a fairly suspenseful thriller that passes an entertaining few hours.

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    WWII tale of Nazi rocket plans has its moments; including Sophia Loren doesn't hurt.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Bruce B


    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… More

  • Matthew R


    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… More

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