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Operation Crossbow Overview:

Operation Crossbow (1965) was a Action - Drama Film directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Carlo Ponti.

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On Blu-ray: Action and Suspense in Operation Crossbow (1965) and The World, The Flesh and the Devil (1959)

By KC on Feb 5, 2020 From Classic Movies

Operation Crossbow (1965) This fast-paced, intense action thriller makes better use of its big cast than your typical all-star production. It plugs its characters into the story with smooth logic and always with an eye on moving the narrative forward with satisfying efficiency. The film is loosely ... Read full article

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Operation Crossbow Facts
Around half of Richard Johnson's scenes were cut.
Average Shot Length = ~6.7 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~6.3 seconds.
The character of Constance Babington Smith in this movie, played by Sylvia Syms, was a real-life person. She was a British military officer who in 1957 after the Second World War wrote the book, 'Air Spy: the Story of Photo Intelligence in World War II'.
The title was (briefly) changed by MGM for the US release to "The Great Spy Mission" because the studio thought that having the word "operation" in the title might make people think it was either a medical film or a Robin Hood-type movie, a genre that wasn't doing well at the box office at the time.
George Peppard was under contract with MGM and was desperate to be released from it. MGM agreed provided that he make one more film for them which turned out to be Operation Crossbow.
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