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Action, Adventure, Thriller

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Sean Connery	James Bond
Claudine Auger	Dominique 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
Adulfo Celi
Lois Maxwell	Miss Moneypenny

Director	Terence Young
Producer	Albert R. Broccoli; Harry Saltzman; Kevin McClory
Writer	Richard Maibaum; Kevin McClory; Jack Whittingham; Richard Mailbaum
Cinematography	Ted Moore
Musician	John Barry
User Credit 1	Peter R. Hunt
User Credit 2	Anthony Mendleson

James Bond's fourth adventure takes him to the Bahamas, where a NATO warplane with a nuclear payload has disappeared into the sea. Bond (Sean Connery) travels from a tony health spa (where he tangles with a mechanized masseuse run amuck) to the casinos of Nassau and soon picks up the trail of SPECTRE's number-two man, Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi), and his beautiful mistress, Domino (Claudine Auger), whom Bond soon seduces to his side. Equipped with more gadgets than ever, courtesy of the resourceful "Q" (Desmond Llewelyn), agent 007 escapes an ambush with a personal-size jet pack and takes to the water as he searches for the undersea plane, battles Largo's pet sharks, and finally leads the battle against Largo's scuba-equipped henchmen in a spectacular underwater climax. This thrilling Bond entry became Connery's most successful outing in the series and was remade in 1983 as Never Say Never Again, with Connery returning to the role after a 12-year hiatus. Tom Jones belts out the bold theme song to another classic Maurice Binder title sequence. --Sean Axmaker

Edition Details
Barcode	027616785725
Region	Region 1
Chapters	52
Release Date	10/19/1999
Packaging	Keep Case
Screen Ratio	2.35:1
Subtitles	English; French
Audio Tracks	English Dolby Digital 5.1 French Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Layers	Single Side, Single Layer
Nr of Disks/Tapes	1

Personal Details
Purchase Date	9/1/2006
User Text 2	Look Up! Look Down! Look Out! Here Comes The Biggest Bond Of All! ["Look" is formed from the 007 logo]
Links	Amazon US DVD Empire IMDB Internet Movie Database

Audio Commentary, Featuring Director Terence Young
Second Audio Commentary By The Cast And Crew
The Making Of Thunderball Documentary
The Thunderball Phenomenon Documentary
Behind-The-Scenes Still Gallery Featuring Over 150 Images
"Inside Thunderball" Featurette
Collectible "Making-Of" Booklet
Original Theatrical Trailers, Television And Radio Spots

Also Known As:
Ian Fleming's Thunderball (UK) (complete title)
James Bond, Secret Agent (International: English title) (original script title)
Longitude 78 West (UK) (original script title) (more)

Filming Locations:
Anet, Eure-et-Loir, France (more)

Trivia:
This film and the other James Bond movie From Russia with Love (1963) are the only Bond movies to use the wipe editing technique in scene transitions. (more)

Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: "Q" talks with his mouth closed. (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.
(more)

Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations (more)

Movie Connections:
Featured in Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (1967) (TV) (more)