Thunderball (1965)

Another installment into the famed James Bond series. This is one of the many with Sean Connery

Summary

-James Bond heads down to the tropics to retrieve nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent Emilio Largo to be used in an international extortion plot

Cast

-Sean Connery: James Bond

-Claudine Auger: Domino

-Adolfo Celi: Largo

-Luciana Paluzzi: Fiona

-Rik Van Nutter: Felix Leitner

-Guy Doleman: Count Lippe

-Molly Peters: Patricia

-Martin Beswick: Paula

-Bernard Lee: M

-Lois Maxwell: Miss Moneypenny

-Desmond Llewlyn: Q

Did You Know?

-Originally, Bouvoir was to be strangled with his own bra and not the fireplace poker that was actually used

-In the book, Domino was Italian. Her full name was Dominetta "Domino" Vitali

-The reason for the many underwater scenes is from producer Kevin McClory's interest in diving

-In early versions of the script, the film opened at a Hong Kong fan-tan parlor strip joint. The element of a man in drag was still the same. There was a man in a peacock costume sitting in a gold cage

-Claudette Auger claimed she related to her character since she and Domino were involved with older men

-The large cargo plane deploying the frogmen is a Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter

-This is the first film in the James Bond series to involve a shark-infested swimming pool. This became the inspiration for Dr. Evil's request for sharks with laser beams attached to their heads in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

-The underwater scenes were done in the Bahamian Sea at low tide due to sharks in the area

-The camera Bond uses is a Nikonos Calypso I. It's an updated version of the Calypso-Phot, an underwater camera built for deep sea diver Jacques-Yves Cousteau. In close ups of the camera, the Nikonos logo is covered with black gaffer's tape

-Molly Peters, who plays Patricia, is the first Bond girl to be seen stripping her clothes off on screen

-Claudine Auger did all her own underwater scenes as she was an excellent swimmer