Sabotage of Hitler's ingenious weapons of mass destruction...the V1 and V2 rockets!
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Sophia LorenNora Van Ostamgen
- George PeppardLt. John Curtis
- Trevor HowardProfessor Lindemann
- John MillsGeneral Boyd
- Richard JohnsonDuncan Sandys
- Tom CourtenayRobert Henshaw
- Jeremy KempCaptain Phil Bradley
- Anthony QuayleBamford
- Lilli PalmerFrieda
- Paul HenreidGeneral Ziemann
Crew
- Michael AndersonDirector
- Emeric PressburgerScreenplay
- Derry QuinnScreenplay
- Ray RigbyScreenplay
- Erwin HillierDirector of Photography
- Ron GoodwinOriginal Music Composer
- Ernest WalterEditor
- Carlo PontiProducer
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