Operation Crossbow | Infiltrating the Nazi Weapons Facility | Warner Classics

Lt. John Curtis (George Peppard) and Captain Phil Bradley (Jeremy Kemp) infiltrate the german factory to uncover and sabotage their V2 rockets, but not before the planes are off the ground headed to bomb London.
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About Operation Crossbow:
Germany, World War II. Nazi engineers develop a rocket that could change the outcome of the war. Now, with the lives of millions and the fate of the free world in the balance, one spy ventures deep into enemy territory to find and destroy the massive rocket factory in a one-way mission codenamed: Operation Crossbow. George Peppard stars as Lieutenant John Curtis, the Allied espionage agent who infiltrates the secret Nazi weapons facility, and Sophia Loren stars as the wife of the scientist whose identity Curtis has assumed ... the one person who could reveal his cover to the Nazis, thwart the mission and decide the outcome of the war in this riveting espionage thriller.
Original Theatrical Release: March 31, 1965
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[@markhedger6378]

Here in pas de calais ,northern France you can still see the remains of the original 'ski slopes' used to launch the doodle bugs , a sobering sight.

[@lawnmowermanTX]

George Peppard was a good actor and was an A-Team actor in the 80’s.

[@chriswerkes8313]

My father-in-law remembered standing in Picadilly Circus in London and watching a V-1 fly over. He said the pulse jet engine was very distinctive.

[@fastair8546]

imagine seeing that jet engine for the first time as a spy and knowing the allies have nothing even close. as much as destroying it will help win the war, you know at the same time you are destroying a masterpiece of design.

[@melina001a]

Rubbish read the history of Frank Whittle he had a working jet engine prototype in 1937. The British government types did not want to invest in it as they thought it would not be worth investing in

[@gregnz1]

And they still lost.

[@B-26354]

Britain invented the Jet Engine.

[@gregnz1]

@@B-26354 NZ invented the Jet Boat Engine.

[@B-26354]

@@gregnz1 The jet engine as in plane jet engine was invented by Britain.

[@chrisbergonzi7977]

A solid WW2 movie...a bit brutal for the era. Great stuff thanks...

[@Marvin-dg8vj]

Good film. The ending was B movie stuff but moving all the same. Lots of people did die anonymously fighting the Nazis at the end of the war

[@Croz89]

Gotta love the set design, it's like a bond villain's lair. I half expect to se Dr. No in the background.

[@user-yt6le1hx1e]

My father was called upon to develop, on an emergency basis, electrical resistors for the circuitry of what he described as ''simple analog ballistic computers'. The variation in temperature of the White Cliffs of Dover meant engineering had to achieve consistent performance over that range. However, using fighters to parallel flight trajectory closely, unbalancing gyroscopes, forced the wooden jet planes to crash in countryside, and this may have become the primary chosen strategy.

[@trashcanman6649]

Does "simple analog ballistic computer" perhaps mean something like the M9 gun director?

[@danylo-antonii1607]

Yeah this project is so top secret that we will have new workers who just got some recommendations to get a ultimate pass and have a private excursion on our top secret weapon

[@thesoultwins72]

Love the old 'shake the camera' special effects @15.00

[@trekaddict]

But alas, in reality, they built those things using slave labour from the Concentration camps.

[@halon7476]

Murdock..where are you with the chopper 😂

[@user-hl3so1ok7n]

The officer in Where Eagles Dare and Admiral Luchens from Sink the Bismarck!

[@Docv400]

That eerie silence when the Engine cuts, spine-chilling . . .

[@devajean_marc]

ces là ou ils fessais peur , des que le silence venue la bombe tombé

[@dapre]

Great underestimated classic! Please release it with scandinavian subtitles.

[@jackvoss5841]

What they are showing are V-1 with a pulse jet engine. They were nicknamed as Buzz Bombs because of the buzzing sound of the pulse jets. Later, they used rocket motors with a steady burn, on the V-2 rockets. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

[@MichaelAnastasio-g9o]

Watch: V-1 Buzzbomb: A Technical Breakdown of the Vengeance Weapon kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJO5l5h9eZqGpKM

[@MinnesotaBeekeeper]

I saw this as a kid. Forgot that George Peppard was the star. Apparently, historically the Crossbow attacks were not very successful.

[@robertmendick3195]

Operation Crossbow 1965... A year later, in 1966, a TV series named Blue Light aired, starring Robert Goulet. The first 4 episodes were about an Allied agent infiltrating an underground German V-2 facility....Disappointedly, the TV series aired for only one season with 17 episodes.

[@Mars0484]

oh no! at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="656">10:56</a> it is going straight for the nuclear powerplant! great movie though ;)

[@grzegorzkowalski5100]

His only plan that did not come together.

[@claudiolopez5041]

John "Hannibal" Smith

[@moviesgalore9947]

They spent a fortune on that interior set it's huge and fantastic looking.

[@viz12345]

Even me don't speaking german can hear that colonel Hannibal's german is terrible.

[@Rocky2007]

I see where TSA got their training.

[@FredScuttle456]

A fictional story, attempting to portray real events. Thrilling. Sort-of almost true.

[@evilborg]

nothing fictional about this movie.... those V2 buzz bombs were very real in WW2

[@FredScuttle456]

@@evilborg The characters portrayed in this movie are fictitious. This bombing raid didn't happen, but it's loosely based on the Peenemunde attack. No V2 could have been ready for an attack on New York. The test pilot sequence is authentic, discovering the PR photos by a WAAF specialist is truthful, the scepticism of the War Cabinet's chief scientific advisor is correct. Th e plot is a work of fiction, woven inside real events.

[@FredScuttle456]

@@evilborg The fictitious plot is embedded inside historical fact. The scene with Hanna Reitsch testing the V1 is authentic, as is the scene with the WAAF interpreting the photographic images. The scepticism expressed by the war cabinet's chief scientific officer is correct but mouthed by fictitious characters. No V2 was ever built which could hit New York. The climactic bombing raid didn't happen, but it's loosely based on the Peenemunde raid. The three agents around whom the plot unfolds are fictional, but with a nod to the Abwehr's successes against British Intelligence in their "Englandspiel" operation in the Netherlands.

[@henrimichelpierreplana4332]

Remember this movies as a kid on TV. I agree with one of the comments, kind of hard for the time.

[@stevedunningduckinggiraffe6296]

The conditions for the workers on the V2 in the caves were so terrible, more people died making the V2 than were killed in the UK!

[@Slickrock72]

I once read an observation that more people were killed building V2's than were killed by launched V2's.

[@ellenthorne818]

Good fil m with an excellent cast of familiar faces.

[@arrangrant4614]

Top movie George Peppard was a great actor. He was great in the Blue Max one of my favourite movies

[@Shoobee63]

Jeremy Kemp - an Englishman - had an impressive use of the German language in this film. George Peppard needed work on his accent

[@garyseven2798]

The Blue Max was Peppard's Best .

[@Viktor-jq2br]

To be honest, this have been the procedure to any workplace i have started at. At least the place is clean and warm. You don't even have to engage in pointless conservations. He's quite lucky.

[@jlwilliams]

A good movie could have been made about Merle Tuve, the head of the American team that did what neither the British nor the Germans thought could be done: develop a practical proximity fuse, with miniaturized electronics that could detonate an antiaircraft shell at optimum range from the target. Once these and the techniques of aiming them were perfected, they brought down doodlebugs in droves. But of course Tuve wasn't colorful, and also he wasn't British...

[@brhbrh6326]

Sir Samuel Crowe Curran-a Scot-deserves more than a mention, pre-Merle Tuve. Thankfully their work produced great results.

[@RememberNineEleven]

The first primitive cruise missile, the V1. Luckily the Germans prioritised the V2 rocket rather than mass producing and improving V1s with non linear flight paths.

[@luciusaquila4326]

How good is Peppard's German ?

[@nectafarious8842]

I see someone had a tight budget to keep to; the grey spray painted metal grills at 0.23 are a Dexion walkway product screwed vertically to a wooden framework 😆 I have a few lengths in my garage.

[@garybates5505]

Well aren’t you a legend! I feel so much better informed after your gem of wisdom

[@ericthered760]

How about the anachronism @ 10:56 - There appear to be cooling towers for a nuclear reactor in city-scape in the background. Hardly possible in 1944 !!! 🤔🙃

[@frankfarago2825]

Europe's first major drone war was in 1943 to 1945. Europe second major drone war is from 2022 until ____ ?

[@Lp-ze1tg]

1965 no wonder I have never heard of this movie.

[@Andre-cd2ib]

Wir fuhren alle 6 Wochen runter nach Peenemünde bei schönem Wetter. Das waren 1 1/2 h Autofahrt.

[@jluclacour47]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="656">10:56</a> Nuclear power plant 😅🤣😂

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Not that surprising to anyone old enough to remember lighting fireworks. I remember dad putting it all in a suitcase. And somehow an accident happened, but luckily it didn't all go up. Which my brother blamed me for. I was only a young kid , so it could have been me, that time. 😂

[@mrb.5610]

Proximity fuse did them in.

[@RedStarRogue]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="793">13:13</a> Yes I can um, totally believe that's not a painted backdrop...

[@mikemontagne2703]

A <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="656">10:56</a>, on the left side, behind a tall black smokestack. Those two cooling towers look similar to nuclear power plant cooling towers. Also, Google the "pulse jet" as to how this engine's noise was created, not a turbine engine at all.

[@martinjb55]

I'm not really into war films made after the beginning of the 1960s. This is one of my eceptions, along with The Heroes Of Telemark. Battle of Brittain and The Eagle has Landed. ( not an exclusive list)😊

[@ericarnow240]

well, at least they're not blaming it on the Russians. It'll take then 80 years to forget who their friends were in WWII.

[@daveid6244]

Can't get the movie on u tube for free

[@mikeryan7468]

German has to be one of the most guttural sounding languages

[@katarn999]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="656">10:56</a>: Not sure why the movie makers chose a sequence showing the cooling towers of an atomic reactor for this scene... 😉

[@EdwardNakagawa-q3t]

TWO GUYS FROM THE BLUE MAX **

[@CapitanoGUC-gf6el]

what a phantasy .....:-/

[@mosesgutierrez7602]

Where did Germany get money for all this equipment

[@RowNumbers]

Hollywood budget

[@jamerv86]

Nazis wish they had a plant like this.

[@MattKearneyFan1]

Damn col Hannibal is hard to recognize

[@EdwardNakagawa-q3t]

FORWARD THINKING, BUT FOR ALL THE WRONG PURPOSES

[@cane6074]

George Peppard would have made a great BJ Blazkowicz!

[@user-rr2ut1pz6d]

Слишком много вооруженных...

[@mikeryan7468]

People now on their phones rhink they know everything. I remember speaking to a man in a pub in the 80s whos brother was killed by one of those bastard things.

[@user-yu4oq9bo7p]

❤Movy 👍

[@MAGABeard]

Too remarkable set designs. Foresight of things to come (March 1965: 20 years after occurrence)

[@madsk]

10,:57 er et atomkraftværk i baggrunden :)

[@詹姆士-m8z]

Sophia Loren

[@sahibzadazahidjan7343]

Name of the movie,please

[@paulkellerman2603]

Who is Nazi? Germany.

[@rolfagten857]

Furred Reich.

[@tobykornreich2719]

The sheer amount of propaganda we've been force fed for 80 freaking years is jaw dropping. Emotional no logic.

[@steph1918]

Must be Peenemünde.

[@MichaelWilliams-mo1vv]

Why not just post the whole movie?

[@yamato-yosoroku-klausketeer]

もう再生できないけどレーザーディスクもってた ジョージ・ペパードがドイツ語しゃべっとる!! どうでも良いけどさっき「ブルーマックス」みてた

[@yamato-yosoroku-klausketeer]

子どものころ「Aチーム」が好きだった 大人になってジョージ・ペパードを知ってだいぶ経ってから彼がハンニバルを演じていたと知っておどろいた

[@yamato-yosoroku-klausketeer]

ほんと、どうやってV1号の飛行シーンを撮ったんだ？とおもう よく出来てる

[@robertacattony5195]

can someone explain what are those red insignas in the german officer dark gray uniform? <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="330">5:30</a>

[@konmaj]

I suppose this officer is from flak branch of the Luftwaffe.

[@robertacattony5195]

@@konmajit would make sense but the officer insignia normally is yellow

[@robertacattony5195]

@@konmaji think i found it. Its an flak division major. Also search it as a collar tab

[@konmaj]

Only aviators and paratroopers had yellow insignia in Luftwaffe.

[@EdwardNakagawa-q3t]

TWO GUYS FROM THE BLUE MAX **