The film is a highly fictionalised account of the real-life Operation Crossbow. It was directed by Michael Anderson and written by Emeric Pressburger. The scenes alternate between Nazi Germany’s development of the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket, and the efforts of British Intelligence and its agents to defend against the threats.
About Operation Crossbow (film) in brief
The film is a highly fictionalised account of the real-life Operation Crossbow. It was directed by Michael Anderson and written by Emeric Pressburger. The scenes alternate between Nazi Germany’s development of the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket, and the efforts of British Intelligence and its agents to defend against the threats. All characters speak in the appropriate language, with English subtitles for those speaking German or Dutch. It does touch on the main aspects of the operation, which embraced all tactics used to thwart the German long-range weapons programme in the last years of World War II. The film was later re-released as The Great Spy Mission, and released in 1965 in Panavision in the UK and in the U.S. in the US in the summer of 1965. It is now available on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time in the United States and the UK in the autumn of 2014. The UK release date for the film is September 14, 2014. It will also be released in Australia and Canada on September 15, 2014 and in Australia on September 16, 2015.
The US release date is September 17, 2014, and in Canada on October 16, 2016. It has been released in the USA and Canada in the fall of 2014 and the spring of 2015 in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom in the spring and summer of 2016. The British release date has not yet been released, but it is expected to be in the Spring of 2015 and the US release will be in June 2015. For more information on the UK release dates, visit the British Home Office website. For the US Release date, see the British Ministry of Defence website for more details on the British operation, including how to obtain a copy of the film and how to watch it on TV, or to order a copy from your local cinemas, visit www.BritishHomeOffice.org.uk. The U.K. release the film on September 18, 2015, and it will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray the following day. For. the UK, the release date of the movie is September 19, 2013, and for the US on September 20, 2013. The movie is available in UK cinemas and on DVD.
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