Operation Crossbow

OPERATION CROSSBOW. 1965 British spy thriller and Second World War film about "Operation Crossbow" (1943-45). It was distributed by MGM and directed by Michael Anderson. The film was 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 developments of the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket with British Intelligence and its agents attempting to defend against the threats