Thunderball

Thunderball (1965) is the fourth spy film in the James Bond series starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham. It was directed by Terence Young with screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins. The film follows Bond's mission to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE, which holds the wo... More
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Initial release date:

  • Dec 9, 1965

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Rating:

PG (USA)

Runtime:

  • 2 h 9 min

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Also known as:

  • James Bond - Feuerball,
  • Feuerball,
  • Thunderball,
  • 007: Thunderball,
  • James Bond, Secret Agent

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Directed by

Terence Young

Stewart Terence Herbert Young (20 June 1915 – 7 September 1994) was a British film director best known for directing three films in the James Bond series, Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), and Thunderball (1965). The son of a Police Commissioner of the Shanghai Municipal Police, Young...

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  • Look Up! Look Down! Look Out! Here Comes The Biggest Bond Of All!

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  • 1965
  • Oct 19, 1999
  • Dec 22, 1965
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Runtime:

  • 2 h 9 min
  • 2 h 10 min
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  • 5,600,000

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Thunderball

Thunderball is the ninth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, and the eighth full length James Bond novel. It was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 27 March 1961, where the initial print run of 50,938 copies quickly sold out. Technically the first novelization of a James Bond...

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List Rank Year Note
  • 2,841
  • Apr 25, 2010
  • 6.5

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Award Nominations:

Year Award Award Nominee Nominated work Notes/Description
  • 1965
  • British Art Direction: Colour
  • 2004
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