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Operation Crossbow (The Great Spy Mission) (1965)

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Starring (View all)
Sophia Loren Sophia Loren
Nora Van Ostamgen
George Peppard George Peppard
1st Lt. John Curtis USAAF
Trevor Howard Trevor Howard
Professor Frederick Lindemann
John Mills John Mills
General Boyd
Richard Johnson Richard Johnson
Duncan Sandys
Tom Courtenay Tom Courtenay
Robert Henshaw
Jeremy Kemp Jeremy Kemp
Captain Phil Bradley
Anthony Quayle Anthony Quayle
Bamford


Written by
Duilio Coletti Duilio Coletti
(original story) and


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4 years, 3 months ago at Jan 12 16:58
Not much more than the good cast (forget peppard and Johnson, you hace trevor and Mills and Courtenay and excellent mature Lilly Palmer and one of the best Sophias close ups ever), but when the plot comes to a hard moment there it is, Sophia dies early...
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Description: Operation Crossbow, later re-released as The Great Spy Mission, is a 1965 British spy thriller and World War II film about Operation Crossbow (1943โˆ’1945). It was directed by Michael Anderson and written by Emeric Pressburger, under the pseudonym "Richard Imrie", Derry Quinn, and Ray Rigby from a story from Duilio Coletti and Vittoriano Petrilli. It was filmed at MGM-British Studios. The film is a highly fictionalised account of the real-life Operation Crossbow, made with a large cast of the time's popular film stars, but it does touch on the main aspects of the operation. The scenes alternate between Nazi German d ... (more)
Release date: 1 April 1965
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