Thunderball (film, 1965)

Thunderball

Directed by  |  Terence Young
Produced by  |  Kevin McClory
Albert R. Broccoli
Harry Saltzman
Written by  |  Ian Fleming
Kevin McClory
Jack Whittingham (original)
Richard Maibaum
John Hopkins
Starring  |  Sean Connery
Adolfo Celi
Claudine Auger
Bernard Lee
Desmond Llewelyn
Lois Maxwell
Rik Van Nutter
Music by  |  John Barry
Cinematography  |  Ted Moore
Editing by  |  Peter R. Hunt
Distributed by  |  United Artists
Release date(s)  |  December 9, 1965
Running time  |  130 minutes
Country  |  United Kingdom
Language  |  English
Preceded by  |  Goldfinger
Followed by  |  You Only Live Twice
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Thunderball (1965) is the fourth film of the James Bond film series and the fourth to star Sean Connery as fictional British secret agent James Bond. It is a loose adaptation of Ian Fleming's ninth James Bond novel. James Bond film producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman did not serve as the main producers on the film as they did with the previous Bond installments, but instead served as executive producers. Instead, Kevin McClory was the main producer for Thunderball, due to a legal case in which McClory and Jack Whittingham successfully sued Ian Fleming on the claims that his original novel was a copyright infringement on a script for a Bond film that Fleming had previously written with the two collaborators. Kevin McClory, who was granted the copyrights to Thunderball as a result of the case, would later produce another adaptation of the novel with the non-EON Never Say Never Again in 1983, with Sean Connery again reprising his role as Bond.

## Cast[edit]

* Sean Connery as James Bond 007
* Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo
* Claudine Auger as Domino Derval
* Bernard Lee as M
* Desmond Llewelyn as Q
* Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny
* Rick Van Nutter as Felix Lieter
* Anthony Dawson (body) and Eric Pohlmann (voice) as Ernst Stavro Blofeld