Thunderball
“Look up! Look down! Look out! Here comes the biggest Bond of all!”
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
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Goldfinger
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Thunderball
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Live and Let Die
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The Man with the Golden Gun
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The Spy Who Loved Me
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Moonraker
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For Your Eyes Only
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Octopussy
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Never Say Never Again
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A View to a Kill
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The Living Daylights
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Licence to Kill
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GoldenEye
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Tomorrow Never Dies
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The World Is Not Enough
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Die Another Day
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Casino Royale
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Quantum of Solace
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Skyfall
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Spectre
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No Time to Die
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Untitled James Bond Film
Movie
Cast
36 people
Sean Connery
James Bond
Known for
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Rock
Claudine Auger
Dominique 'Domino' Derval
Known for
A Bay of Blood
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Adolfo Celi
Emilio Largo
Known for
My Friends Act II
Madly in Love
Luciana Paluzzi
Fiona Volpe
Known for
The Green Slime
The Italian Connection
Rik Van Nutter
Felix Leiter
Known for
The Passionate Thief
Guy Doleman
Count Lippe
Known for
The Ipcress File
On the Beach
Molly Peters
Patricia Fearing
Also in
Target for Killing
Armchair Theatre
Martine Beswick
Paula Caplan
Known for
Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
A Bullet for the General
Bernard Lee
M
Known for
The Third Man
Whistle Down the Wind
Desmond Llewelyn
Q
Known for
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Sapphire
Lois Maxwell
Miss Moneypenny
Known for
Lolita
The Haunting
Roland Culver
Foreign Secretary
Known for
Dead of Night
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Terence Young Director · Richard Maibaum Screenplay Jack Whittingham Screenplay
Worldwide gross $141M · Budget $9M · United States release December 29, 1965
Box office
Budget
$9,000,000
Worldwide gross
$141,200,000
Gross vs. budget
15.7×
Production
EON Productions
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Studio · Production
United Kingdom · Bahamas · France · United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · French
Release dates
Japan · December 9, 1965
Premiere · Tokyo
United Kingdom · December 28, 1965
Theatrical
United States · December 29, 1965
Theatrical
United States · September 19, 1999
Physical · DVD
Australia
January 26, 1966 · Theatrical
Brazil
January 17, 1966 · Theatrical
Denmark
December 17, 1965 · Theatrical
Finland
December 25, 1965 · Theatrical
France
December 17, 1965 · Theatrical
Germany
December 16, 1965 · Theatrical
Greece
December 29, 1965 · Theatrical
Ireland
February 11, 1966 · Theatrical
Italy
December 15, 1965 · Theatrical
Japan
December 11, 1965 · Theatrical
Mexico
January 6, 1966 · Theatrical
Netherlands
April 6, 1966 · Theatrical
January 14, 2006 · TV · SBS 6
October 29, 2008 · Physical · DVD
December 1, 2012 · Physical · Blu ray
Norway
December 26, 1965 · Theatrical
Poland
December 29, 1965 · Theatrical
Portugal
May 26, 1966 · Theatrical
South Korea
February 12, 1969 · Theatrical
Spain
December 23, 1965 · Theatrical
Sweden
December 17, 1965 · Theatrical
Thailand
January 19, 1966 · Theatrical
XC
June 1, 1992 · Physical
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