Thunderball | James Bond 007 | Final Battle

The Thunderball film is the fourth installment in the James Bond film series produced by Eon Productions in 1965. Thunderball refers to the SPECTRE organization threatening to destroy an unidentified metropolis in the United Kingdom or the United States (Miami) after stealing two NATO atomic bombs. The ransom offered was £100 million in diamonds. During the search for these two nuclear bombs, Bond went to the Bahamas and met Emilio Largo, the No. 2 character in SPECTRE. Bond is assisted by CIA agent Felix Leiter and Largo's mistress, Domino Derval, and leads to an underwater battle with Largo's henchmen.

Thunderball spent about a quarter of the time filming underwater. It was also the first Bond film to be shot on the Panavision big screen, and ran for over two hours.

Thunderball is adapted from the 1961 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham. This is the third and final 007 film directed by Terence Young with a screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins.

Thunderball grossed $141.2 million at the worldwide box office, outpacing not only any of its predecessors but also surpassing every of the five subsequent Bond films. Thunderball remains the series' most financially successful film in North America. In 1966, John Stears won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in Thunderball, while production designer Ken Adam received a BAFTA nomination.

Thunderball cast:
- Sean Connery as James Bond.
- Claudine Auger as Domino, Largo's mistress.
- Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo, Number Two of SPECTRE.
- Luciana Paluzzi as Fiona Volpe: The SPECTRE Assassin.
- Rik Van Nutter as Felix Leiter: CIA agent helping Bond.
- Guy Doleman as Count Lippe: SPECTRE agent (4th place).
- Molly Peters as Patricia Fearing: A physiotherapist.
- Martine Beswick as Paula Caplan: Bond's CIA ally in Nassau.
- Bernard Lee as "M."
- Desmond Llewelyn as "Q."
- Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny: Secretary of M.
- Roland Culver as the British Home Secretary.
- Earl Cameron as Pinder: Bahamas intelligence agent.
- Paul Stassino as François Derval / Angelo Palazzi, a French Air Force pilot assigned to NATO.
- Rose Alba as Madame Boitier, widow of Colonel Jacques Bouvar.
- Philip Locke as Vargas: Largo's main henchman.
- George Pravda as Ladislav Kutze: A nuclear physicist.
- Michael Brennan as Janni: one of Largo's henchmen, often paired with Vargas.

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