"Look Out! Here Comes The Biggest Bond Of All!"
Directed by Terence Young
Produced by Kevin McClory
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum, John Hopkins
Story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Ian Fleming
Based on an original screenplay by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Ian Fleming
Starring: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter
Music by John Barry
Cinematography: Ted Moore
Edited by Peter R. Hunt (supr ed), Ernest Hosler
Production company: Eon Productions
Distributed by United Artists
Release date: 29 December 1965 (United Kingdom)
Running time: 130 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: $9 million
Box office: $141.2 million
"Thunderball" is an action adventure thriller film directed by Terence Young and written by Richard Maibaum, John Hopkins, based on "Thunderball" by Ian Fleming. It's the fourth installment of the "James Bond" film series which follows Secret Agent James Bond who heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.
Cast
- Sean Connery as James Bond
- Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo (voice dubbed by Robert Rietty)
- Claudine Auger as Dominique "Domino" Derval (voice dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl)
- Luciana Paluzzi as Fiona Volpe
- Rik Van Nutter as Felix Leiter: CIA agent who helps Bond.
- Bernard Lee as M: The head of MI6.
- Martine Beswick as Paula Caplan
- Guy Doleman as Count Lippe
- Molly Peters as Patricia Fearing
- Earl Cameron as Pinder
- Paul Stassino as François Derval and Angelo Palazzi
- Desmond Llewelyn as Q
- Roland Culver as the Foreign Secretary
- Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny
- Philip Locke as Vargas
- George Pravda as Ladislav Kutze
- Michael Brennan as Janni
- Anthony Dawson as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, voiced by Eric Pohlmann (both un-credited)
- Bill Cummings as Quist
"James Bond" stays the same: 007 routs his enemies as always and girls keep dying as usual - everything looks absolutely stable.
Advantages
- Sean Connery as James Bond
Disadvantages
- Too pretentious
- Some scenes are overacted
"Strangenesses"
- Seems like James Bond is absolutely immortal
- The final rescue
Clue Moments
- The funeral of Colonel Jacques Bouvar
- Aston Martin DB5
- The tattoo
- Domino
- John Barry - Main Title - Thunderball (vocal by Tom Jones)
- John Barry - Chateau Flight
- John Barry - The Spa
- John Barry - Switching The Body
- John Barry - The Bomb
- John Barry - Cape Martinique
- John Barry - Thunderball
- John Barry - Death of Fiona
- John Barry - Bond Below Disco Volante
- John Barry - Search For Vulcan
- John Barry - 007
- John Barry - Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
* * *
James Bond: My dear, uncooperative Domino.Domino: How do you know that? How do you know my friends call me Domino?
James Bond: It's on the bracelet on your ankle.
Domino: So... what sharp little eyes you've got.
James Bond: Wait 'til you get to my teeth.
* * *
Miss Moneypenny: In the conference room - something pretty big; every double-o man in Europe has been rushed in. And the Home Secretary, too!James Bond: His wife probably lost her dog.
* * *
Q: Try to be a little less than your frivolous self, 007.
* * *
Bond: [draping arm around nurse] Do I seem healthy to you?Pat Fearing: Too healthy, by far.
* * *
Emilio Largo: Every man has his passion - mine is fishing. What is yours, Mr. Bond?Bond: Well... I'm not what you'd call a passionate man.
* * *
Bond: I hope we didn't scare the fishes.
* * *
Pat Fearing: What exactly do you do?James Bond: Oh, I travel... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.
* * *
Bond: Keep in touch.Pat Fearing: Anytime, anyplace, James.
Bond: Another time, another place.
* * *
Emilio Largo: Like your friend you've been a little too clever, and now you are caught!
* * *
Foreign Secretary: Well, we have exactly 14 hours and 50 minutes - and then I suppose we shall have to pay up and look as happy as we can - shan't we?
* * *
You may see the trailer here.
Plot: 6/10
Entertainment: 6/10
Acting: 7/10
Originality: 6/10
Music and Sound: 7/10
No comments:
Post a Comment