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Thunderball

Based On the book by Ian Fleming

Thunderball is a 1965 spy film and the fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent 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 NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE, which holds the world ransom to the tune of £100 million in diamonds under threat of destroying an unspecified metropolis in either the United Kingdom or the United States (later revealed to be Miami).

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Release date:
December 9, 1965
Director:
Terence Young
Cast:
Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter
Genre:
Thriller, Action, Spy
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

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Book vs Film

Cover of Thunderball
The Book · 1961

Thunderball

Ian Fleming

★ 3.7 / 5 7 ratings · Open Library
Poster for Thunderball
The Film · 1965

Thunderball

Terence Young

★ 6.9 / 10 138,532 votes · IMDb

Reached the screen 4 years after publication.

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