Thunderball
Action, Adventure, Thriller
MGM / UA  (1965) 125 mins PG

7.0 (21,629 votes)
The thrills never let up as James Bond dives into this riveting adventure filled with explosive confrontations and amazing underwater action sequences! Sean Connery brings his characteristic style, humor and magnetism to Agent 007 as he travels to Nassau to track down villainous criminal Emilio Largo, who's threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust....

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Cast and Crew
Sean Connery  ......  James Bond
Claudine Auger  ......  Dominique 'Domino' Derval
Adolfo Celi  ......  Emilio Largo, SPECTRE #2
Luciana Paluzzi  ......  Fiona Volpe
Rik Van Nutter  ......  Felix Leiter
Guy Doleman  ......  Count Lippe
Director  .....  Terence Young
Producer  .....  Kevin McClory; Albert R. Broccoli
Writer  .....  Richard Maibaum; John Hopkins; Kevin McClory; Jack Whittingham
Notes
Filming Locations:
Anet, Eure-et-Loir, France (more)

Trivia:
For the first time, Sean Connery performs the gunbarrel opening sequence. In the first three Bond films, the job was done with stuntman Bob Simmons. (more)

Goofs:
Continuity: When Bond unwraps the bandages from Angelo's face he is wearing a short sleeve shirt, but close ups twice reveal arms and hands removing the bandages wearing a long sleeve black shirt. (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
French Woman: The coffin, it has your initials, J.B.
Bond: At the moment, rather him than me.
French Woman: At least you've been saved the effort of removing him. Colonel Bouvar passed away in his sleep, so they tell me.
Bond: Mm...
French Woman: You sound disappointed you did not kill him yourself.
Bond: I am. Jacques Bouvar murdered two of my colleagues.
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations (more)