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Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

gcoregistrar I have always loved watching World War II movies, and this one was one of my favorites from my childhood. The storyline is not bad, although there was a lot more to the original story and history than the movie script allowed. At one point in the movie, right after Sophia Loren has shown up at the hotel she and George Peppard begin a conversation in German, but then she says,"my German is not very good" in German, then begins to speak to him in English because she had heard him speaking English to Tom Courtenay. What was funny was her German was much better than George Peppard's (although it was obvious that he had takem pains to learn his German lines well)...he spoke German with a decidedly American accent! Even Anthony Quayle's German was better. This is one of those better sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat spy movies - at least the first time you see it. One eyed know that I found was to watch Anthony Quayle playing a bad guy, since he is ordinarily known better for being a good guy in most films. One frighteningly true fact came to me a few years ago, after I had seen a special on cable about how the Germans had already been experimenting with a nuclear dirty bomb in Eastern Europe. Remains of a the people of a Jewish village were found buried in the forest, and their remains had been radioactive when they were dug up, I believe, sometime in the 1990s...few people today realize just how close we came to losing the war.

Spikeopath A passable WWII movie boosted by star casting and a grand finale. Plot essentially is about some Allied agents planning to infiltrate the Nazis' secretive rocket factory in Holland and destroy their deadly V rockets.Much of the pic is given to character forming and painting political, army and human passion based groundwork. Unfortunately the narrative often sags and has some uneven patches that can take one out of the story line. On the plus side the finale is worth waiting for, full of suspense and heroics, while the espionage angle holds interest throughout. 6/10

TankGuy I expected a lot more from this action movie.Firstly, There is way too much talking and sophia lorens scene is completely irrelevant, i think that whole sequence was shot purely for the excuse of having a famous actress star in the picture. The whole scene is like a long, boring intermission until George Peppard infiltrates the missile base.Another idiotic flaw is that for the first 45 minutes of the film, George Peppard has nothing to do with the film whatsoever and he doesn't appear for this amount of time after the film starts. If you didn't know what the rest of the movie was about you would think it was some sort of British army recruitment film. All it showcases is British intelligence officers argue and debate while the Nazis take turns at flying a V1.During the long, boring intermission, sophia lorens character gets randomly drunk and flirts with George Peppard. She is later killed by a member of the dutch resistance. Why this happened, i will never know, it was probably to stop her telling people about George Peppard or just an excuse for a small portion of action to break the dialogue. In my opinion, her character has nothing to do with the film at all.However, negative points aside, the beginning and ending of the film are excellent. The scenes at the start with the V1 flying through the sky and crashing and bursting into flames are visually impressive and very well shot. The end of the film, where George Peppard has infiltrated the missile base, manages to pack a bit of action into a boring film. It comes in the form of several Germans being shot to death with a machine gun and the base in later blown up and goes completely sky high. I was very pleased with this scene. Another action scene is where several V1s are launched and fly over to england. Some are blown up by cannons but some reach London and several houses are blown up. The film is worth watching for these three scenes alone, that is why i rated it a 7.Operation crossbow isn't a bad film, it quite good in some areas, but rubbish in others. I would still like to see it released onto DVD though. However, i still recommend you watch it if its ever on TV, just for the 3 scenes mentioned above. The film is talky and dialogue heavy, but I've seen worse.

vitaleralphlouis OPERATION CROSSBOW was a box office disaster, possibly because of the dreadful title as well as a trailer that makes the film look awful; BUT...The film itself is a way-above-average WW II story --- brilliantly directed, well acted, lavishly produced, with a cast of over a dozen stars. The on-location filming in Europe, in wide screen color, is another big plus.The story involves the German development of missile bombs as well as the V-2 rockets that devastated London in the early part of the war (before American involvement). This is the story of the intelligence agents assigned to infiltrate the manufacturing plant for these new high-tech weapons, carefully protected by 80 feet of rock in the German Alps. Very fine movie. Not one dull minute. Nuff said!