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...advance. When they hit a V.C. concrete bunker, the men of the 1st Cavalry slammed a wire-guided SS-11 missile designed for use against tanks into the bunker, knocked out the three V.C. snipers. Later they captured and dismantled one of the weirdest V.C. gimmicks yet: a giant crossbow, rigged with an 8-ft.-long arrow aimed to wing a helicopter...
Operation Crossbow, shifting to the European front, distorts the facts about an actual wartime crisis to fit a ludicrous tale of espionage. At the outset, the film seeks to establish its authenticity by popping in at 10 Downing Street, where Prime Minister Churchill (Patrick Wymark) asks Duncan Sandys (Richard Johnson) to head Operation Crossbow, an Anglo-American unit assigned to pinpoint and destroy Germany's V-1 buzz-bomb and V-2 rocket projects. Director Michael Anderson sedately re-creates some rather tumultuous sessions of British officialdom in 1943, reducing history to a few thoughtful demurrers from Churchill...
...generate suspense, Crossbow occasionally switches over to the Nazi side. Peenemünde, before the massive allied attack, is a hive of hard-working scientists and tight-lipped SS men, so earnest about perfecting their flying bomb that they put a cockpit in it and sacrifice four brave pilots in trials...
...everyone can safely speak English. He gets help from Innkeeper Lilli Palmer, spends an edgy night with Sophia Loren because he happens to be impersonating her dead husband. Loren's brief role seems little more than a favor to her real-life husband, Carlo Ponti, who is Crossbow's producer...
...that let out the light that serves as a signal to Allied planes. The bombardiers drop in their eggs just in time to abort an intercontinental missile called "the New York rocket," lifting off for parts unknown. In fact, Germany's underground rocket factory was never bombed. Operation Crossbow probably won't be so lucky...