Thunderball (film)

This is a good article. Click here for more information.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Thunderball
Theatrical release poster by Robert McGinnis and Frank McCarthy
Directed byTerence Young
Screenplay byRichard Maibaum
John Hopkins
Original screenplay by
Story byKevin McClory
Jack Whittingham
Ian Fleming
Based onThunderball
by Ian Fleming
Produced byKevin McClory
Starring
CinematographyTed Moore
Edited byPeter Hunt
Ernest Hosler
Music byJohn Barry
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release dates
  • 9 December 1965 (1965-12-09) (Tokyo, premiere)
  • 22 December 1965 (1965-12-22) (United States)
  • 29 December 1965 (1965-12-29) (United Kingdom)
Running time
130 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom[1][2][3]
United States[4]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$9 million
Box office$141.2 million

Thunderball is a 1965

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

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.[5] 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

executive producers.[7]

The film was exceptionally successful: its worldwide box-office receipts of $141.2 million (equivalent to $1,365,200,000 in 2023) 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.

BAFTA nominated production designer Ken Adam for an award.[10] 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.

Plot

SPECTRE operative

Bahamas
. While the bombs are recovered by his men, Largo murders Palazzi for reneging on his original deal with SPECTRE.

British secret agent James Bond, recuperating at Shrublands after killing SPECTRE assassin Jacques Bouvar who had faked his death at his chateau, notices Lippe's presence and keeps him under observation, discovering Derval's body. Upon being recalled to London, Bond finds himself targeted by Lippe for trying to interfere. Before he can defend himself, Volpe kills Lippe for jeopardising Largo's scheme. Once back in London, Bond learns that all

00 agents are being put on high alert following the theft of the bombs, after being informed a major city in the US or the UK will be destroyed unless £100 million is paid to SPECTRE within seven days. While in talks with M on his assignment, Bond requests he be assigned to Nassau, Bahamas, to contact Derval's sister Domino
, after recognising Derval from the photo given to the agents in their main briefing as the body he found at the resort.

Bond meets with Domino, who he learns is the mistress of Largo when he visits a local casino. Both men recognise each other as adversaries and engage in a tense cat-and-mouse game while still pretending ignorance of each other's true nature. Following their initial meeting, Bond meets with his friend, CIA agent

Disco Volante, he notices an underwater hatch beneath her that intrigues him. The next day, he visits Largo at his estate during the night, only to find that Paula had been abducted and committed suicide before she could talk. Forced to escape, Bond evades Largo's men during a Junkanoo
celebration. Volpe catches up with Bond, but is killed when Bond puts her between himself and a henchman aiming for Bond.

Suspecting the bombs were brought to the area, Bond and Leiter search for the Vulcan and find it camouflaged underwater, along with the bodies of the crew members and Palazzi. Upon returning to the island, Bond reveals to Domino that her brother was killed by Largo and gets her to help him search Disco Volante. However, Largo catches her in the act and has her imprisoned. Meanwhile, Bond replaces one of Largo's men as SPECTRE prepares to move the bombs, and manages to learn where one of them is being moved to before being discovered and left behind. Reuniting with Leiter, the pair gets the

US Navy to intercept Disco Volante crew and recover one of the bombs in an underwater battle. Bond pursues Largo and grabs hold of Disco Volante as she sheds the rear half to become a hydrofoil to escape. Bond gets on deck and sends the Disco Volante out of control whilst he defeats Largo's men and fights Largo. In an ironic twist, Largo gains the upper hand and is about to shoot Bond when Domino kills Largo with a speargun in revenge after his hired nuclear physicist Ladislav Kutze frees her. The trio quickly flee Disco Volante seconds before it crashes into rocks and explodes. Kutze vanishes before Bond and Domino are retrieved by a plane with the Fulton system
.

Cast

Uncredited:

  • Maryse Guy Mitsouko as Madame LaPorte, a French secret service agent
  • Bob Simmons as Colonel Jacques Bouvar, SPECTRE Number Six, who is killed by Bond in the pre-title scene
  • Anthony Dawson as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (voiced by Eric Pohlmann): The head of SPECTRE, Number One (neither actor is credited)
  • Bill Cummings as Quist: one of Largo's henchmen
  • Murray Kash as SPECTRE Number Eleven, an American senior member of SPECTRE who reports on a drug dealing mission jointly led by him and Number Nine
  • André Maranne as SPECTRE Number Ten, a French senior member of SPECTRE who reports on assassinating a French defector to the USSR
  • Clive Cazes as SPECTRE Number Nine, a French senior member of SPECTRE
  • Michael Smith as SPECTRE Number Eight, a senior member of SPECTRE
  • Cecil Cheng as SPECTRE Number Seven, a Japanese senior member of SPECTRE who reports on a blackmail mission
  • Philip Stone as SPECTRE Number Five, an English senior member of SPECTRE who reports on helping to plan the Great Train Robbery
  • Victor Beaumont as SPECTRE Number Three, a senior member of SPECTRE
  • Gábor Baraker as SPECTRE Number Thirteen, a senior member of SPECTRE

Production

Legal disputes

Further information: Rights controversy of Thunderball

Originally meant as the first James Bond film, Thunderball was the centre of legal disputes that began in 1961 and ran until 2006.[14] Former Ian Fleming collaborators Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham sued Fleming shortly after the 1961 publication of the Thunderball novel, claiming he based it upon the screenplay the trio had earlier written in a failed cinematic translation of James Bond.[15][6] The lawsuit was settled out of court; McClory retained certain screen rights to the novel's story, plot, and characters. By then, Bond was a box-office success, and series producers Broccoli and Saltzman feared a rival McClory film beyond their control; they agreed to McClory's producer's credit of a cinematic Thunderball, with them as executive producers.[16]

Later, in 1964, Eon producers Broccoli and Saltzman agreed with McClory to cinematically adapt the novel; it was promoted as "Ian Fleming's Thunderball". Yet, along with the official credits to screenwriters Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins, the screenplay is also identified as 'based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham' and as 'based on the original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming'.[16] To date, the novel has twice been adapted cinematically; the 1983 Jack Schwartzman-produced Never Say Never Again features Sean Connery as James Bond, but is not an Eon production.

Casting

Broccoli's original choice for the role of Domino Derval was

Hammer horror films, and Gloria Paul. Eventually, former Miss France Claudine Auger was cast, and the script was rewritten to make her character French rather than Italian, although her lines were dubbed in the final cut by Nikki van der Zyl, who had voiced several previous Bond girls. Nevertheless, director Young cast her once again in his next film, Triple Cross (1966). One of the actresses who tried for Domino, Luciana Paluzzi, later accepted the role as the redheaded femme fatale assassin Fiona Kelly, who originally was intended by Maibaum to be Irish. The surname was changed to Volpe in co-ordination with Paluzzi's nationality.[17]

Filming

Guy Hamilton was invited to direct, but considered himself worn out and "creatively drained" after the production of Goldfinger.[5] Terence Young, director of the first two Bond films, returned to the series. Coincidentally, when Saltzman invited him to direct Dr. No, Young expressed interest in directing adaptations of Dr. No, From Russia with Love and Thunderball. Years later, Young said Thunderball was filmed "at the right time",[18] considering that if it was the first film in the series, the low budget (Dr. No cost only $1 million) would not have yielded good results.[18] Thunderball was the final James Bond film directed by Young.

Filming commenced on 16 February 1965, with principal photography of the opening scene in Paris. Filming then moved to the Château d'Anet, near Dreux, France, for the fight in precredit sequence. Much of the film was shot in the Bahamas; Thunderball is widely known for its extensive underwater action scenes which are played out through much of the latter half of the film. The rest of the film was shot at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, Silverstone racing circuit for the chase involving Count Lippe, Fiona Volpe's RPG-armed BSA Lightning motorcycle and James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 before moving to Nassau, and Paradise Island in the Bahamas (where most of the footage was shot), and Miami.[19] Huntington Hartford gave permission to shoot footage on his Paradise Island and is thanked at the end of the film.

The home used as Largo's estate in the film

On arriving in Nassau, McClory searched for locations to shoot many of the key sequences of the film and used the home of a local millionaire couple, the Sullivans, for Largo's estate, Palmyra.[20] Part of the SPECTRE underwater assault was also shot on the coastal grounds of another millionaire's home on the island.[5] Most of the underwater scenes had to be done at lower tides due to the sharks on the Bahamian coast.[21]

After he read the script, Connery realised the risk of the sequence with the sharks in Largo's pool and insisted that production designer

Plexiglas partition inside the pool. The barrier was not a fixed structure, so when one of the sharks managed to pass through it, Connery fled the pool, seconds away from attack.[19] Ken Adam later told UK daily newspaper The Guardian
,

We had to use special effects, but unlike special effects today, they were real. The jet pack we used in Thunderball was real – it was invented for the United States Army. Bloody dangerous, and it only lasted a couple of minutes. The ejector seat in the Aston Martin was real and Emilio Largo's boat, the Disco Volante, was real. You had power boats at that time, but there were no good-sized yachts that were able to travel at 40 to 50 knots, so it was quite a problem. But by combining a hydrofoil, which we bought in Puerto Rico for $10,000, and a catamaran, it at least looked like a big yacht. We combined the two hulls with a one-inch slip bolt and when they split it worked like a dream. We used lots of sharks for this movie. I'd rented a villa in the Bahamas with a saltwater pool which we filled with sharks and used for underwater filming. The smell was horrendous. This was where Sean Connery came close to being bitten. We had a plexiglass corridor to protect him, but I didn't have quite enough plexiglass and one of the sharks got through. He never got out of a pool faster in his life – he was walking on water.[22]

When special-effects coordinator John Stears provided a supposedly dead shark to be towed around the pool, the shark, which was still alive, revived at one point. Due to the dangers on the set, stuntman Bill Cummings demanded an extra fee of £250 to double for Largo's sidekick Quist as he was dropped into the pool of sharks.[23]

The climactic underwater battle was shot at Clifton Pier and was choreographed by Hollywood expert

Creature From the Black Lagoon in 1954 and other films. He was responsible for the staging of the cave sequence and the battle scenes beneath Disco Volante and called in his specialist team of divers who posed as those engaged in the onslaught. Voit provided much of the underwater gear, including the Aqua-Lungs, in exchange for product placement and film tie-in merchandise. The ability to breathe underwater for extended periods of time was a new product that had previously been used by underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau and using it in a movie was a new approach. Lamar Boren, an underwater photographer, was hired to shoot all of the sequences.[23] Filming ceased in May 1965, and the final scene shot was the physical fight on the bridge of Disco Volante.[5]

While in Nassau, during the final shooting days, special-effects supervisor John Stears was supplied experimental rocket fuel to use in exploding Largo's yacht. Ignoring the true power of the volatile liquid, Stears doused the entire yacht with it, took cover, and then detonated the boat. The resultant massive explosion shattered windows along Bay Street in Nassau roughly 30 miles away.[5] Stears went on to win an Academy Award for his work on Thunderball.

As the filming neared its conclusion, Connery had become increasingly agitated with press intrusion and was distracted with difficulties in his marriage of 32 months to actress

David Picker of United Artists, and convinced him it would be impossible to edit the film to a high enough standard without the extra time.[25]

Effects

Main articles: List of James Bond vehicles and List of James Bond gadgets

Thanks to special-effects man John Stears, Thunderball's pretitle teaser, the Aston Martin DB5 (introduced in Goldfinger), reappears armed with rear-firing

Bell Aircraft Corporation). The rocket belt Bond uses to escape the château actually worked, and was used many times, before and after, for entertainment, most notably at Super Bowl I and at scheduled performances at the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair.[26]

Bond receives a

frogmen). Designed by Jordan Klein, green dye was meant to be used by Bond as a smoke screen to escape pursuers.[27] Instead Ricou Browning, the film's underwater director, used it to make Bond's arrival more dramatic.[28]

The sky hook used to rescue Bond at the end of the film was

Royal Corps of Engineers asked Peter Lamont how long a man could use the device underwater, the answer was "As long as you can hold your breath."[29]

On 26 June 2013, Christie's auction house sold the Breitling SA Top Time watch worn in the film by Connery for over £100,000; given to Bond by Q, it was also a Geiger counter in the plot.[30]

Music

See also: Thunderball (soundtrack)

Thunderball was the third James Bond score composed by John Barry, after From Russia with Love and Goldfinger. The original title song was entitled "Mr Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", taken from an Italian journalist who in 1962 dubbed agent 007 as Mr Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.[31] The title theme was written by Barry and Leslie Bricusse; the song was originally recorded by Shirley Bassey, but it was realised late in the day that the track was too short for the needed titles. As Bassey was unavailable, it was later rerecorded by Dionne Warwick with a longer instrumental introduction. Her version was not released until the 1990s. The song was removed from the title credits after producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were worried that a theme song to a James Bond film would not work well if the song did not have the title of the film in its lyrics.[5] Barry then teamed up with lyricist Don Black and wrote "Thunderball", which was sung by Tom Jones, who according to Bond production legend, fainted in the recording booth when singing the song's final note. Jones said of it, "I closed my eyes and I held the note for so long when I opened my eyes the room was spinning."[32]

Country musician Johnny Cash also submitted a song to Eon productions titled "Thunderball", but it went unused.[33]

Release and reception

The film premiered on 9 December 1965 at the

Skyfall.[37]

Thunderball won an

Edgar Allan Poe Awards.[38]

Contemporary reviews

The film received generally positive reviews.

David Robinson of the Financial Times criticised the appearance of Connery and his effectiveness to play Bond in the film, remarking: "It's not just that Sean Connery looks a lot more haggard and less heroic than he did two or three years ago, but there is much less effort to establish him as connoisseur playboy. Apart from the off-handed order for Beluga, there is little of that comic display of bon viveur-manship that was one of the charms of Connery's almost-a-gentleman 007."[40]

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times found the film to be more humorous than its previous instalments and felt "Thunderball is pretty, too, and it is filled with such underwater action as would delight Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau." He further praised the principal actors and wrote "[t]he color is handsome. The scenery in the Bahamas is an irresistible lure. Even the violence is funny. That's the best I can say for a Bond film."[41] Variety felt Thunderball was a "tight, exciting melodrama in which novelty of action figures importantly".[42] Philip K. Scheuer, reviewing for the Los Angeles Times, was less impressed, writing: "It is the same as its predecessors, only more–too much of everything, from sudden desire to sudden desire." Additionally, he wrote: "The submarine sequences are as pretty as can be in Technicolor, featuring besides fish and flippered bipeds, all sorts of awesome diving bells and powered sea sleds – not to mention an arsenal of lethal spear guns. If I could have just known more than half the time what, precisely, they were doing, the effect could have been prettier yet."[43]

Time magazine applauded the film's underwater photography, but felt the "script hasn't a morsel of genuine wit, but Bond fans, who are preconditioned to roll in the aisles when their hero merely asks a waiter to bring some beluga caviar and Dom Pérignon '55, will probably never notice. They are switched on by a legend that plays straight to the senses, and its colors are primary."[44] Clifford Terry of the Chicago Tribune felt the dialogue was "so bad, it's great" and highlighted Auger as "probably the most genteel of all the Bond babies to date". Overall, he felt the film belonged to Connery, writing he "throws out those incredible lines without so much as batting a steely-cold eye".[45]

Retrospective reviews

According to Danny Peary, Thunderball "takes forever to get started and has too many long underwater sequences during which it's impossible to tell what's going on. Nevertheless, it's an enjoyable entry in the Bond series. Sean Connery is particularly appealing as Bond – I think he projects more confidence than in other films in the series. Film has no great scene, but it's entertaining as long as the actors stay above water."[46]

Critics such as James Berardinelli praised Connery's performance, the femme fatale character of Fiona Volpe, and the underwater action sequences, remarking that they were well choreographed and clearly shot. He criticised the length of the scenes, stating they were in need of editing, particularly during the film's climax.[47]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an 87% rating based on 52 reviews with an average rating of 6.70/10. The website's consensus reads: "Lavishly rendered set pieces and Sean Connery's enduring charm make Thunderball a big, fun adventure, even if it doesn't quite measure up to the series' previous heights."[48] On Metacritic the film has a score of 64 out of 100 based on reviews from nine critics.[49] In 2014, Time Out polled several film critics, directors, actors, and stunt actors to list their top action films;[50] Thunderball was listed at number 73.[51]

See also

References

  1. Lumiere. European Audiovisual Observatory. Archived
    from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  2. ^ "BFI Database". bfi.org. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 17 June 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  3. ^ "AMPAS Database". Oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Thunderball". AFI Catalog.
  5. ^ a b c d e f The Making of Thunderball: Thunderball Ultimate Edition, Region 2, Disc 2 (DVD). MGM/UA Home Entertainment. 1995.
  6. ^ a b "McClory, Sony and Bond: A History Lesson". Universal Exports.net. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
  7. ^ Culhane, John (9 July 1989). "'Broccoli . . . Cubby Broccoli' : How a Long Island vegetable farmer became the man who produced all of the real James Bond movies". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 11 June 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  8. ^ "James Bond Movies at the Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 25 April 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  9. ^ a b "The 1966 Oscar Awards". RopeofSilicon. Archived from the original on 6 March 2008. Retrieved 7 December 2007.
  10. ^ a b "BAFTA Awards 1965". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on 26 December 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2008.
  11. ^ George A. Rooker. "Film Industry Tricks OR How to fool most of the people most of the time!". Official Nikki van der Zyl website. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
  12. ^ Cork, John. Commentary 1: Thunderball Ultimate Edition, Region 2.
  13. ^ Thunderball Ultimate Edition DVD (Media notes). 2006.[permanent dead link]
  14. ^ "The Lost Bond". Total Film. 27 February 2008. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  15. ^ Johnson, Ted (15 November 2013). "MGM, 'James Bond' Producer End Decades-Long War Over 007". variety.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  16. ^ a b Cork, John. "Inside "Thunderball"". Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Archived from the original on 20 November 2005. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
  17. ^ a b "Production notes for Thunderball". MI6.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2007.
  18. ^ a b Young, Terence. Commentary 1: Thunderball Ultimate Edition DVD Region 4 (DVD). MGM/UA Home Entertainment.
  19. ^ a b The Thunderball Phenomenon (DVD). MGM/UA Home Entertainment. 1995. Thunderball Ultimate Edition DVD, Region 2, Disc 2
  20. ^ 007 Mission Control: Exotic Locations (DVD). MGM/UA Home Entertainment. 2006. Thunderball Ultimate Edition DVD, Region 2, Disc 2
  21. ^ Commentary 1: Thunderball Ultimate Edition, Region 2.
  22. ^ Dee, Johnny (17 September 2005). "Licensed to drill". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  23. ^ a b c Copyright 1998–2010. "Production notes for Thunderball —". Mi6.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 1 May 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  24. ISSN 0032-1478. Archived
    from the original on 25 March 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
  25. ^ Hunt, Peter R. Commentary 2: Thunderball Ultimate Edition DVD Region 2 (DVD). MGM/UA Home Entertainment.
  26. ^ Malow, Brian. "Where the hell is my Jetpack?". Butseriously.com. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  27. ^ John Cork. Commentary 2: Thunderball Ultimate Edition, Region 2 (DVD).
  28. ^ a b Browning, Ricou. Commentary 1: Thunderball Ultimate Edition, Region 2 (DVD).
  29. ^ Lamont, Peter (1995). The Thunderball Phenomenon: Thunderball Ultimate Edition, Region 2, Disc 2 (DVD). MGM/UA Home Entertainment.
  30. ^ "James Bond Watch with Geiger Counter Sells for $160,000". Reuters. 26 June 2013. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  31. ^ Barnes & Hearn 2003, p. 52.
  32. ^ "Tom Jones's comments on the Thunderball song". Interview with Singer Tom Jones. Archived from the original on 13 January 2006. Retrieved 10 September 2005.
  33. ^ "Bitter Cinema piece on Johnny Cash's Thunderball". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2007.
  34. ^ "'Thunderball' on Way to New Record in Japan; 'Poppins' Also Clicks". Variety. 29 December 1965. p. 5.
  35. ^ "Release Information – Thunderball —". Mi6-HQ.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
  36. ^ "Box Office History for James Bond Movies". The Numbers. Nash Information Service. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
  37. ^ Guinness World Records 2013, p. 203.
  38. Internet Movie Database. Archived
    from the original on 6 February 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
  39. ^ Powell, Dilys (2 January 1966). "Blood and Thunderball". The Sunday Times. p. 33.
  40. David, Robinson. "Thunderball film review". Financial Times
    .
  41. ^ Crowther, Bosley (22 December 1965). "Screen: 007's Underwater Adventures". The New York Times. p. 23. Archived from the original on 27 February 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  42. ^ "Film Reviews: Thunderball". Variety. 22 December 1965. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  43. Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  44. ^ "Cinema: Subaqueous Spy". Time. 24 December 1965. Archived from the original on 1 August 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  45. ^ Terry, Clifford (24 December 1965). "Wow! 007 Triumphs Once Again". Chicago Tribune. Section 2, p. 7. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  46. ^ Peary, Danny (1986). Guide for the Film Fanatic (Simon & Schuster) p.435
  47. ^ Berardinelli, James. "Thunderball". ReelViews. Archived from the original on 8 May 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2007.
  48. ^ "Thunderball". Rotten Tomatoes. 29 December 1965. Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  49. ^ "Thunderball". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  50. ^ "The 100 best action movies". Time Out. Archived from the original on 6 November 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  51. ^ "The 100 best action movies: 80–71". Time Out. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.

Sources

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thunderball (film).
Wikiquote has quotations related to Thunderball (film).
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thunderball_(film)&oldid=1213183164"