Operation Crossbow - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Operation Crossbow"
Operation Crossbow (1965)
Timing:
1:55 (115 min)
6.767/10
101
101
6.006/10
353
353
6.6/10
6100
6100
Film crew
Director
Producer
Editor
Ernest Walter
Editor
Art Direction
Makeup Artist
George Blackler
Makeup Artist
Original Music Composer
Ron Goodwin
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Erwin Hillier
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Bob Kindred
Camera Operator
Sound Mixer
J.B. Smith
Sound Mixer
Production Manager
Sydney Streeter
Production Manager
Screenplay
Derry Quinn
Screenplay
Ray Rigby
Screenplay
Special Effects
Tom Howard
Special Effects
Story
Vittoriano Petrilli
Story
Assistant Director
Basil Rayburn
Assistant Director
Focus Puller
Wally Fairweather
Focus Puller
Conductor
Ron Goodwin
Conductor
Sound Recordist
Gerry Turner
Sound Recordist
Translator
Bernard Doret
Translator
Sound Editor
Allan Sones
Sound Editor
Recording Supervision
A.W. Watkins
Recording Supervision
What's left behind the scenes
- Hanna Reitsch (1912-1979), played by Barbara Rutting (1927-2020), was a real person. She was a German pilot who served for a time as Adolf Hitler’s (1889-1945) personal pilot. During the Battle of Berlin, she was the one who tried to persuade the Führer to flee the capital in a light Fieseler Fi 156 Storch aircraft.
- The actors playing the fascists actually speak German, which is not typical for war films of the 1960s. The bosses at MGM did not know the actors would be speaking German (with subtitles) until they saw the rough cut of the film. They wanted to dub all these lines into English, but director Michael Anderson (1920-2018) firmly refused.
- In Arab countries, Sophia Loren was blacklisted for her role as a Jewish woman who survived a concentration camp in Daniel Mann’s (1912-1991) drama “Judith” (1966). The film was shot in Israel and shown in Beirut, but all the scenes with Loren were cut from it. The film poster was changed, and the actress's last name was removed from the cast list.
- Richard Johnson (1927-2015) plays the role of Duncan Sandys (1908-1987). He was a real British politician, a member of Conservative governments in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 1960s. Winston Churchill’s (1874-1965) son-in-law, he participated in combat during World War II and was wounded, after which he limped for the rest of his life.
- George Peppard (1928-1994) had a contract with MGM Studios that he desperately wanted to break. The MGM management didn't object, but stipulated that the actor had to star in one more film. That film turned out to be "Operation Crossbow".
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