Thunderball (1965)
Thunderball (1965)


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Cast & Crew.

Sean Connery
James Bond

Claudine Auger
Dominique 'Domino' Derval

Adolfo Celi
Emilio Largo

Luciana Paluzzi
Fiona Volpe

Rik Van Nutter
Felix Leiter

Guy Doleman
Count Lippe

Molly Peters
Patricia Fearing

Martine Beswick
Paula Caplan

Bernard Lee
M

Desmond Llewelyn
Q

Lois Maxwell
Miss Moneypenny

Roland Culver
Foreign Secretary

Earl Cameron
Pinder

Paul Stassino
Palazzi

Rose Alba
Madame Boitier

Philip Locke
Vargas

George Pravda
Kutze

Michael Brennan
Janni

Leonard Sachs
Group Captain

Edward Underdown
Air Vice Marshall

Reginald Beckwith
Kenniston

Harold Sanderson
Hydrofoil Captain

Jack Gwillim
Senior RAF Staff Officer (uncredited)

Suzy Kendall
Prue (uncredited)

Mitsouko
Madame La Porte (uncredited)

Philip Stone
SPECTRE Number 5 (uncredited)

Kevin McClory
Man Smoking at Nassau Casino (uncredited) / Producer / Story

Anthony Dawson
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (uncredited)

Richard Graydon
Largo's Henchman (uncredited)

Michael Culver
Vulcan Bomber Crewman (uncredited)

Barbara Jefford
Patricia Fearing (voice) (uncredited)

André Maranne
SPECTRE #10 (uncredited)

Bob Simmons
Colonel Jacques Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited) / Jacques Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited) / Stunt Double

Terence Young
Director

Nikki Van der Zyl
Dominique 'Domino' Derval (voice) (uncredited)

Richard Maibaum
Screenplay

John Hopkins
Screenplay

John Barry
Original Music Composer / Conductor

Ted Moore
Director of Photography

Ernest Hosler
Editor

Ken Adam
Production Design

Peter Murton
Art Direction

Anthony Mendleson
Costume Design / Wardrobe Designer

Jack Whittingham
Screenplay / Story

Eileen Warwick
Hairdresser

David Middlemas
Production Supervisor

Gus Agosti
Assistant Director

Robert Watts
Second Assistant Director

Freda Pearson
Set Dresser

Michael White
Assistant Art Director

John Stears
Special Effects

Lamar Boren
Underwater Camera

Jimmy Spoard
Grip

John Winbolt
Camera Operator

John Brady
Wardrobe Master

Eileen Sullivan
Wardrobe Master

Peter R. Hunt
Supervising Editor / Editor

Frank Ernst
Location Manager

Willie Meyers
Location Scout

Derek Watkins
Musician

Joan Davis
Continuity

Albert R. Broccoli
Presenter / Executive Producer

Maurice Binder
Main Title Designer

Lorraine Fennell
Publicist
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Details.
Release DateDecember 11, 1965
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 10m
Content RatingPG
Budget$9,000,000
Box Office$141,200,000
Filming LocationsPinewood Studios, United Kingdom · Florida · Miami, United States · Paris, France · The Bahamas
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This Movie Is About.
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Thunderball is a 1965 spy film and the fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham devised from a story conceived by Kevin McClory, Whittingham, and Fleming. It was the third and final Bond film to be directed by Terence Young, with its screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins.
The film follows Bond's mission to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE, which holds the world ransom to the tune of £100 million in diamonds under threat of destroying an unspecified metropolis in either the United Kingdom or the United States (later revealed to be Miami). The search leads Bond to the Bahamas, where he encounters Emilio Largo, the card-playing, eyepatch-wearing SPECTRE Number Two. Backed by CIA agent Felix Leiter and Largo's mistress, Domino Derval, Bond's search culminates in an underwater battle with Largo's henchmen. The film's complex production comprised four different units, and about a quarter of the film comprises underwater scenes. Thunderball was the first Bond film shot in widescreen Panavision and the first to have a running time of over two hours.
Although planned by Bond film series producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman as the first entry in the franchise, Thunderball was associated with a legal dispute in 1961 when former Fleming collaborators McClory and Whittingham sued him shortly after the 1961 publication of the novel, claiming he based it upon the screenplay the trio had written for a cinematic translation of James Bond. The lawsuit was settled out of court and Broccoli and Saltzman, fearing a rival McClory film, allowed him to retain certain screen rights to the novel's plot and characters, and for McClory to receive sole producer credit on this film; Broccoli and Saltzman instead served as executive producers.
The film was exceptionally successful: its worldwide box-office receipts of $141.2 million (equivalent to $1,408,900,000 in 2024) exceeded not only that of each of its predecessors but that of every one of the next five Bond films that followed it. Thunderball remains the most financially successful film of the series in North America when adjusted for ticket price inflation. In 1966, John Stears won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and BAFTA nominated production designer Ken Adam for an award. Some critics and viewers praised the film and branded it a welcome addition to the series, while others found the aquatic action repetitious. The movie was followed by 1967's You Only Live Twice. In 1983, Warner Bros. released a second film adaptation of the Thunderball novel under the title Never Say Never Again, with McClory as executive producer.
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