Operation Crossbow

1965 · 115 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 5,743 VOTES · DIR. Michael Anderson

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Overview

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

Dialogue Timeline — 870 lines

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00:00:42 Mr. Duncan Sandys, sir.
00:07:09 ...the possibility of a rocket project in Germany, what would you do?
00:13:02 Sir.
00:15:00 I'm not gonna believe your fairy tales until you show me a photograph of a rocket.
00:17:30 And if it were a torpedo...
00:26:18 Because all the men going there are top-grade specialists.
00:28:32 Your German's very good. So good you'd be a loss to the Ministry of Information.
00:30:55 I gave up pure mathematics after the first year...
00:32:35 Gate's open.
00:35:18 Two were Dutch engineering specialists...
00:37:37 - Your father? - He left home when I was 3.
00:40:21 Now, here are your new papers.
00:47:03 Maybe they'll move the engineers out before anything can happen to him.
00:50:51 I met him a couple of months ago in a railroad station.
00:54:27 But how did he die? When?
00:57:41 And you'd stand by and let it happen.
00:59:52 Yeah. I know as much as that.
01:06:24 There's a chance they'll let him go. They need engineers too badly.
01:08:32 Before Hitler came to power, we were nothing.
01:12:21 Would you like to witness it?
01:27:42 Channel observation posts report that flying objects...
01:37:54 They've learnt by their mistakes.
01:40:49 Just like that?
01:52:55 Right. Right.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed870
Dialogue density7.6 lines / min
First line00:00:42
Final line01:52:55

Production Record

DirectorMichael Anderson
LanguageEnglish
Budget$115,000
Revenue$3,700,000
IMDb votes5,743