Operation Crossbow

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 26 13:49:37 CST 2006


Have copy, may have copies (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).
 This reminds me, I think someone asked about this
before.  Also, I recall, Fitzwilly.  Let me know ...

--- Henry Winkler <henrywinklerjr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Has anybody seen this movie? Dave Kehr wonders
> whether Pynchon did...
> 
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/26/movies/homevideo/26dvd.html
> 
> "Michael Anderson’s 1965 “Operation Crossbow,” a
> ripping yarn from MGM’s British studios in which
> George Peppard singlehandedly destroys the Nazi
> rocket research facility at Peenemunde. The art
> direction of the underground installation powerfully
> suggests Ken Adam’s work for the James Bond series
> (did Thomas Pynchon see this during his research for
> “Gravity’s Rainbow”?), as does the extent and
> callousness of the violence."

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