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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1965 DVD Release: 01/10/2006 Format: DVD - Color Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 54 mins Studio: Trinity Home Entertainment Members Wishing: 3 Genres: Spy Film, Action, War, War Adventure, War Spy Film See Also: Operation Crossbow

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' V-1 rocket base at Peenemunde. Given the order of billing, guess which special operative survives the longest. This being an MGM production, Peppard has time to commiserate with Sophia Loren, the wife of the Nazi collaborator whom Peppard is pretending to be. If you're wondering about the film's outcome, remember who won the war. 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 renaming the film The Great Spy Mission. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Sophia Loren - Nora
George Peppard - Lt. John Curtis
Trevor Howard - Prof. Lindemann
John Mills - Gen.Boyd
Tom Courtenay - Robert Henshaw
Richard Todd - Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Sylvia Syms - Constance Babington Smith
Jeremy Kemp - Phil Bradley
Paul Henreid - Gen. Ziemann
Helmut Dantine - Gen. Linz