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List Price: $19.97Amazon.com's Price: $9.49 You Save: $10.48 (52%)as of 03/21/2010 18:34 EDT
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569795525
Feature: A fearsome rumor reaches Britain's World War II command. The Nazis are developing rocket technology that could rain death on London and, then, New York. Quickly, England develops a plan to send saboteurs into the sites manufacturing the rockets. Just moments after the carefully chosen commandos parachute into the drop zone, their pilot receives an urgent message. The mission may be compromised. Ab
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, Subtitled
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1GermanOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglishSubtitledFrenchDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D79552D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 01, 1965
Features:- A fearsome rumor reaches Britain's World War II command. The Nazis are developing rocket technology that could rain death on London and, then, New York. Quickly, England develops a plan to send saboteurs into the sites manufacturing the rockets. Just moments after the carefully chosen commandos parachute into the drop zone, their pilot receives an urgent message. The mission may be compromised. Ab
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Product Description:
A fearsome rumor reaches Britain's World War II command. The Nazis are developing rocket technology that could rain death on London and then New York. Quickly England develops a plan to send saboteurs into the sites manufacturing the rockets. Just moments after the carefully chosen commandos parachute into the drop zone their pilot receives an urgent message. The mission may be compromised. Abort. Operation Crossbow is the partly fact-based tale of how that team succeeded against daunting odds. Michael Anderson (The Dam Busters Logan's Run) directs guiding a huge cast in a film that builds to a spectacular finale yet never neglects war's unsparing personal costs. As a record of a wartime espionage incursion and as an intrigue-filled thriller Operation Crossbow is on both counts Operation Accomplished.Running Time: 116 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569795525 Manufacturer No: 79552
Amazon.com:
Operation Crossbow was one among many '60s films aiming, in the wake of The Guns of Navarone, to cash in on nostalgia for "the Good War" of 20 years earlier, plus snag a share of the spy-movie market stoked by James Bond. A decent-enough stiff-upper-lip thriller in its day, it's yet more enjoyable now. The nostalgia has deepened to include affectionate enjoyment of a fine, big cast now mostly departed, dependably hitting their marks in a jolly good yarn.
The tale begins around the midpoint of the war, with Hitler aspiring to hurl a second Blitz against London using "flying bombs" and rockets. The British War Office starts recruiting officers fluent in the necessary technical fields, as well as German, Dutch, and/or French--the languages of the Nazi-occupied countries from which the Germans are recruiting technical personnel. The screenplay follows two tracks: the Germans' progress with their new aerial weaponry, and the progress of the Allied infiltrators--chiefly Yank George Peppard, chirpy Englishman Jeremy Kemp, and Dutchman Tom Courtenay--sent to penetrate the V2 project.
Despite the resemblance between the Navarone caves and the underground V2 launch center, Crossbow is something of an anti-Navarone. Its heroes are resolutely small-scale, and the mission is fraught with more opportunities for horrible miscues and moral-ethical murkiness than commando derring-do. The most memorable, indeed disturbing, part of the film involves Sophia Loren as the apolitical wife of a collaborator she doesn't know has been killed (and his identity assumed by Peppard). John Mills and Trevor Howard are deliciously deadpan trading war-council flapdoodle at the highest echelon, and Anthony Quayle (the spiritual leader of the Navarone mission) does yeoman service in a tricky role. Time--or rather, the transfer to video--has also been kind to the film's thin, overlit Metrocolor and last-reel special effects, which looked feebler on theater screens. The writers include Michael Powell's longtime partner Emeric Pressburger (under the pseudonym Richard Imrie). --Richard T. Jameson
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JUST DISCOVERED THIS MOVIE,SOFIA LOREN AND GEORGE PEPPARD MUST BE GOOD RIGHT?WELL I THINK IT IS...NOW REMEMBER THIS MOVIE WAS MADE BEFORE BLUE SCREEN AND COMPUTER GENERATED SPECIAL EFFECTS.BUT I THINK IT HAS GOOD ACTING AND ALSO A GREAT PLOT.
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This movie had a promising start and I was very interested. However, as it progressed it actually bacame quite dull. Sophia Loren was only in the movie for a brief time. There is very little action in this movie, which is okay if there is some suspense, but there really isn't much of that either... maybe a little, but not much. There are much better WWII films out there. Try this one if you like, but I would recommend something else. If you like George Peppard, check out "The Blue Max". That's a ... Read More
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Very good WW II movie. Fairly accurate. Not too much schmaltz. It is always harder for a movie to be believable with big name stars, but they do a good job.
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Having framed my opening, I saw that I had been anticipated by the Amazon editorial reviewer. Yes, this does qualify for consideration as an "OLDIE" (although, from my perspective, 1965 is 15 years too young to earn the designation). That means one is allowed to factor in the nostalgia factor (how nice again to see wonderful Lili Palmer) and the fact that it exemplifies the traditional war film.
With that in mind, one can say that it is far from the best of films about WW2, and far from the ... Read More
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Despite the cover and top billing, Sophia Loren is barely in this at all.
Still it's a fairly compelling movie and George Peppard is great in it. Suggested for fans or retro World War 2 intrigue movies. Not as good as Where Eagles Dare, but good.
The film is presented in widescreen format and the print and audio are great.
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569795525
Feature: A fearsome rumor reaches Britain's World War II command. The Nazis are developing rocket technology that could rain death on London and, then, New York. Quickly, England develops a plan to send saboteurs into the sites manufacturing the rockets. Just moments after the carefully chosen commandos parachute into the drop zone, their pilot receives an urgent message. The mission may be compromised. Ab
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, Subtitled
Item Dimensions:
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages:
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D79552D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 01, 1965