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Operation Crossbow

1965 · directed by Michael Anderson · 115 min
22,596 feet · Prominence
1,831st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw47

Lifetime worldwide gross $4m, re-releases included; about $39m in 2026 money.

Rank4,767 of 11,051In 196525 of 33

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise73

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics73 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy45

Not judged yet, so Legacy falls back to footprint: how many still rate it, how highly, and for how long.

IMDb6.6 from 6kWikipedia7k views a monthAge61 years

How Legacy works

Canon list membership, reach (Wikipedia traffic above IMDb votes) and time served. Every signal behind it keeps updating, which is what separates Legacy from Praise.

draw 47 praise 73 legacy 45averages 55, placing it at22,596 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

George Peppard18,867 ftSophia Loren18,298 ftTrevor Howard18,076 ftJohn Mills18,028 ftTom Courtenay18,022 ftPatrick Wymark17,630 ftJohn Fraser17,625 ft