Released by United Artists

Credits:
Director: Terence Young
Presented by: Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman
Producer: Kevin McClory
Screenplay: Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins
Story by: Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and Ian Fleming
Director of Photography: Ted Moore
Editor: Peter Hunt
Production Designer: Ken Adam
Music: John Barry
Running Time: 133 minutes

Cast:

James Bond: Sean Connery
Domino: Claudine Auger
Largo: Adolfo Celi
Fiona Volpe: Luciana Paluzzi
Felix Leiter: Rik Van Nutter
"M": Bernard Lee
Paula: Martine Beswick
Count Lippe: Guy Doleman
Patricia: Molly Peters
"Q": Desmond Llewelyn
Miss Moneypenny: Lois Maxwell
Foreign secretary: Roland Culver

Genre:

Action / Adventure

Synopsis:

While at a health farm, Bond decides that another patient - the mysterious Count Lippe - is hiding something. Indeed he is: Lippe is an agent of SPECTRE and is in the midst of carrying out a plan to blackmail the Western world. He has with him at the health farm a SPECTRE agent named Angelo who has undergone plastic surgery to make him look like a NATO pilot named Derval. Under Bond's nose they kill Derval and substitute Angelo, who then flies on an RAF Vulcan bomber carrying nuclear bombs, kills the crew and crash-lands the aircraft in the shallow waters of the Bahamas. Bond discovers Derval's dead body, but Count Lippe is killed by SPECTRE before Bond can investigate further. SPECTRE's chief sends a ransom demand to the UK and US leaders: pay £100 million or a major city will be blown up.

Release Date (USA):

29 December 1965

Academy Awards:

Winner of 1 Oscar (Best Effects, special visual effects)

Budget:

$5.5m

Links:

Jamesbond.com

007.com

The Internet Movie Database - Thunderball

Movies.com - Thunderball

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Hollywood.com - Thunderball

Trailer links:

The Internet Movie Database - Windows Media Player trailer Slow