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Sophia Loren and George Peppard in OPERATION CROSSBOW Available on Blu-ray From Warner Archives

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Sophia Loren and George Peppard in OPERATION CROSSBOW is currently available on Blu-ray From Warner Archives. Order it HERE

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.

This seamless blending of historical fact and action/adventure fiction from director Michael Anderson (The Dam Busters, Logan’s Run) was an instant war-time espionage classic when released. What begins as a war-time procedural as British Intelligence races to understand just what the Nazi’s are constructing turns into a desperate one-way spy mission as the V1 rockets starts raining drone of death terror on blitzkrieg battered Britain – and the far more deadly missile V2 is waiting in the wings. 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, along with a huge cast (Trevor Howard, John Mills, Tom Courtenay, Paul Heinried, Lilli Palmer, Anthony Quayle among others)  that carefully presents this tale from both the Allied and the Axis perspective.  Operation Crossbow flies onto your widescreen high definition screen ready for this challenge thanks to this clearly explosive 1080p HD presentation. Special Features: Vintage Featurette “A Look Back at Crossbow”; Theatrical Trailer (HD). 16×9 Letterbox