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Operation Crossbow (later re-released as The Great Spy Mission) is a 1965 British espionage thriller set during the Second World War.This movie concerns an actual series of events where British undercover operatives targeted the German manufacturing facilities for experimental rocket-bombs.
Post-war, Crossbow operations became known as "Operation Crossbow" particularly following the 1965 film of the same name. Crossbow included strategic operations against research and development of the weapons, their manufacture, transportation and attacks on their launch site, and fighter intercepts against missiles in flight.
Linda Evans and Peppard in TV's Banacek (1974) . George Peppard (/ p ə ˈ p ɑːr d /; October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor.He secured a major role as struggling writer Paul Varjak when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964).
His music for war films is particularly well remembered. This includes work on 633 Squadron (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), for which he (mostly) replaced William Walton, plus Force Ten from Navarone (1978). [1]
The Quiller Memorandum is a 1966 British neo noir eurospy film filmed in Deluxe Color and Panavision, adapted from the 1965 spy novel The Berlin Memorandum, by Elleston Trevor under the name "Adam Hall", screenplay by Harold Pinter, directed by Michael Anderson, featuring George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow and Senta Berger.
He co-wrote the film Operation Crossbow, also released in 1965. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he worked for several of the major Hollywood studios writing for top TV series, including Starr and Company and The Avengers. [2] Rigby published a novel of the story of The Hill in 1965. [3] Hill of Sand was written as a follow-up.
From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, Kemp had a prominent film career, usually appearing as second male leads or top supporting roles. His films include Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Operation Crossbow, The Blue Max, Darling Lili, A Bridge Too Far, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Top Secret! and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
The Ipcress File (1965) as Jock Carswell; Operation Crossbow (1965) as R.A.F. Pilot (scenes deleted) Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) as MacDougal; Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) as James MacAfee; The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966) as Captain Leeds; Triple Cross (1966) as British Sergeant Questioning Chapman (uncredited)