Thunderball (1965)
Thunderball (1965)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
![Sean Connery](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/2151-sean-connery.webp)
Sean Connery
James Bond
![Claudine Auger](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41708-claudine-auger.webp)
Claudine Auger
Dominique 'Domino' Derval
![Adolfo Celi](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/797-adolfo-celi.webp)
Adolfo Celi
Emilio Largo
![Luciana Paluzzi](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/24055-luciana-paluzzi.webp)
Luciana Paluzzi
Fiona Volpe
![Rik Van Nutter](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41709-rik-van-nutter.webp)
Rik Van Nutter
Felix Leiter
![Guy Doleman](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/11371-guy-doleman.webp)
Guy Doleman
Count Lippe
![Molly Peters](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41710-molly-peters.webp)
Molly Peters
Patricia Fearing
![Martine Beswick](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/6559-martine-beswick.webp)
Martine Beswick
Paula Caplan
![Bernard Lee](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/2822-bernard-lee.webp)
Bernard Lee
M
![Desmond Llewelyn](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/6261-desmond-llewelyn.webp)
Desmond Llewelyn
Q
![Lois Maxwell](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/6334-lois-maxwell.webp)
Lois Maxwell
Miss Moneypenny
![Roland Culver](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41711-roland-culver.webp)
Roland Culver
Foreign Secretary
![Earl Cameron](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/25077-earl-cameron.webp)
Earl Cameron
Pinder
![Paul Stassino](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41682-paul-stassino.webp)
Paul Stassino
Palazzi
![Rose Alba](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41712-rose-alba.webp)
Rose Alba
Madame Boitier
![Philip Locke](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Philip Locke
Vargas
![George Pravda](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/5785-george-pravda.webp)
George Pravda
Kutze
![Michael Brennan](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Michael Brennan
Janni
![Leonard Sachs](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/267968-leonard-sachs.webp)
Leonard Sachs
Group Captain
![Edward Underdown](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41714-edward-underdown.webp)
Edward Underdown
Air Vice Marshall
![Reginald Beckwith](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/5810-reginald-beckwith.webp)
Reginald Beckwith
Kenniston
![Harold Sanderson](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Harold Sanderson
Hydrofoil Captain
![Jack Gwillim](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/6324-jack-gwillim.webp)
Jack Gwillim
Senior RAF Staff Officer (uncredited)
![Suzy Kendall](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/26864-suzy-kendall.webp)
Suzy Kendall
Prue (uncredited)
![Mitsouko](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/103500-mitsouko.webp)
Mitsouko
Madame La Porte (uncredited)
![Philip Stone](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/2179-philip-stone.webp)
Philip Stone
SPECTRE Number 5 (uncredited)
![Kevin McClory](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Kevin McClory
Man Smoking at Nassau Casino (uncredited) / Producer / Story
![Anthony Dawson](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/6563-anthony-dawson.webp)
Anthony Dawson
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (uncredited)
![Richard Graydon](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/6532-richard-graydon.webp)
Richard Graydon
Largo's Henchman (uncredited)
![Michael Culver](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/628-michael-culver.webp)
Michael Culver
Vulcan Bomber Crewman (uncredited)
![Barbara Jefford](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/23084-barbara-jefford.webp)
Barbara Jefford
Patricia Fearing (voice) (uncredited)
![André Maranne](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/216912-andre-maranne.webp)
André Maranne
SPECTRE #10 (uncredited)
![Bob Simmons](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/170052-bob-simmons.webp)
Bob Simmons
Colonel Jacques Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited) / Jacques Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
![Nikki Van der Zyl](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/170054-nikki-van-der-zyl.webp)
Nikki Van der Zyl
Dominique 'Domino' Derval (voice) (uncredited)
![Peter Murton](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Peter Murton
Art Direction
![John Hopkins](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/173480-john-hopkins.webp)
John Hopkins
Screenplay
![Ernest Hosler](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Ernest Hosler
Editor
![Terence Young](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/6569-terence-young.webp)
Terence Young
Director
![John Barry](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/84230-john-barry.webp)
John Barry
Original Music Composer / Conductor
![Ted Moore](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Ted Moore
Director of Photography
![Anthony Mendleson](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Anthony Mendleson
Costume Design / Wardrobe Designer
![Richard Maibaum](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/173404-richard-maibaum.webp)
Richard Maibaum
Screenplay
![Ken Adam](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/84228-ken-adam.webp)
Ken Adam
Production Design
![Tom Jones](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/44384-tom-jones.webp)
Tom Jones
Theme Song Performance
![Basil Newall](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Basil Newall
Makeup Artist
![Paul Rabiger](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Paul Rabiger
Makeup Artist
![Maurice Askew](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Maurice Askew
Sound Recordist
![Bert Ross](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Bert Ross
Sound Recordist
![Jack Whittingham](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Jack Whittingham
Story / Screenplay
![Eileen Warwick](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Eileen Warwick
Hairdresser
![David Middlemas](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
David Middlemas
Production Supervisor
![Gus Agosti](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Gus Agosti
Assistant Director
![Robert Watts](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/83909-robert-watts.webp)
Robert Watts
Second Assistant Director
![Freda Pearson](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Freda Pearson
Set Dresser
![Michael White](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Michael White
Assistant Art Director
![John Stears](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/881843-john-stears.webp)
John Stears
Special Effects
![Lamar Boren](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Lamar Boren
Underwater Camera
![Jimmy Spoard](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Jimmy Spoard
Grip
![John Winbolt](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
John Winbolt
Camera Operator
![John Brady](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
John Brady
Wardrobe Master
![Eileen Sullivan](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Eileen Sullivan
Wardrobe Master
![Peter R. Hunt](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/198834-peter-r-hunt.webp)
Peter R. Hunt
Supervising Editor / Editor
![Frank Ernst](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Frank Ernst
Location Manager
![Willie Meyers](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Willie Meyers
Location Scout
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Details.
Release DateDecember 11, 1965
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 10m
Content RatingPG
Budget$5,500,000
Box Office$141,195,658
Filming LocationsPinewood Studios, United Kingdom · Miami · Florida, United States · Paris, France · The Bahamas
Genres
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Wiki.
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 $1,311,200,000 in 2022) 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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