Actor: Adolfo Celi
Mission:
Use stolen nuclear missiles to extort money from the United Kingdom.
Fate of the Bond villain:
Shot in the back with a harpoon from a speargun by his mistress, Domino.
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Bond villain: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
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007 Film: From Russia With Love (1963)
Actors: Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)
Mission: Humiliating MI6 for the death of Julius No by using Russian agent Tatiana Romanova and a Soviet decoding device as bait to lure James Bond into a trap, killing him and leaking compromising photos of Bond and Tatiana to the press before selling the decoder back to Moscow.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives (No contact between him and Bond)
Mission: Use stolen nuclear missiles to extort money from the United Kingdom.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives (No contact between him and Bond)
Actor: Donald Pleasence
Mission: Capture United States & Soviet spacecraft from orbit in order to provoke war between the superpowers on behalf of an undisclosed Asian country.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives.
Actor: Telly Savalas
Mission: Extort the world with viruses that render crops and livestock totally infertile.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives.
Actor: Charles Gray
Mission: Create an industrial laser attached to satellite and magnified by diamonds, which is capable of destroying targets anywhere on the face of the Earth. Used to target nuclear stockpiles of countries that refuse to pay him.
Fate of the Bond villain: Presumed dead.
007 Film: For Your Eyes Only (1981)
"Wheelchair villain"
(implied to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld)
Actors: John Hollis (body), Robert Rietty (voice)
Mission: To kill Bond as revenge by remotely hijacking Bond's helicopter and making it crash.
Fate of the Bond villain: Presumed dead after Bond drops him in a smokestack.
007 Film: Never Say Never Again (1983)
Actor: Max von Sydow
Mission: Hold world powers for ransom with nuclear weapons.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives. No contact with Bond.
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007 Film: For Your Eyes Only (1981)
"Wheelchair villain"
(implied to be Ernst Stavro Blofeld)
Actors: John Hollis (body), Robert Rietty (voice)
Mission: To kill Bond as revenge by remotely hijacking Bond's helicopter and making it crash.
Fate of the Bond villain: Presumed dead after Bond drops him in a smokestack.
007 Film: Never Say Never Again (1983)
Actor: Max von Sydow
Mission: Hold world powers for ransom with nuclear weapons.
Fate of the Bond villain: Survives. No contact with Bond.
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007 Filming location: SPECTRE Headquarters / Thunderball (1965)
SPECTRE HEADQUARTERS
Bond movie: Thunderball (1965)
Place and location in the movie: SPECTRE Headquarters, Paris, France
Actual place and location: 35 Avenue d’Eylau, Paris, France
What happens here in the movie: Emilio Largo arrives at SPECTRE meeting.
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Bond movie: Thunderball (1965)
Place and location in the movie: SPECTRE Headquarters, Paris, France
Actual place and location: 35 Avenue d’Eylau, Paris, France
What happens here in the movie: Emilio Largo arrives at SPECTRE meeting.
Visited by 007 Travelers: 2013
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007 Soundtrack: Thunderball (1965)
SOUNDTRACK RELEASED: 1965
SCORE COMPOSER: John Barry
TITLE SONG: "Thunderball"
COMPOSED BY: John Barry, Don Black
COMPOSED BY: John Barry, Don Black
PERFORMED BY: Tom Jones
Thunderball is the soundtrack album for the fourth James Bond film Thunderball.
The album was released by United Artists Records in 1965. The music was composed and conducted by John Barry, and performed by the John Barry Orchestra. This was Barry's third soundtrack for the series. The soundtrack was not finished by the time the film was released in theatres and only featured twelve tracks, roughly only the film's first half; the last seven tracks were released for the first time when the soundtrack was issued on Compact Disc on 25 February 2003. Additionally, the music in the film was unfinished days before the film's release in theatres due to a late change by Eon Productions to use a title song with the same name as the film.
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TRACK LISTING
- "Thunderball (Main Title)" – Tom Jones
- "Chateau Flight"
- "The Spa"
- "Switching the Body"
- "The Bomb"
- "Cafe Martinique"
- "Thunderball (Instrumental)"
- "Death of Fiona"
- "Bond Below Disco Volante"
- "Search for the Vulcan"
- "007"
- "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"
CD bonus tracks
- "Gunbarrel/Traction Table/Gassing the Plane/Car Chase"
- "Bond Meets Domino /Shark Tank/Lights out for Paula/For King and Country"
- "Street Chase"
- "Finding the Plane/Underwater Ballet/Bond with SPECTRE Frogmen/Leiter to the Rescue/Bond Joins Underwater Battle"
- "Underwater Mayhem/Death of Largo/End Titles"
- "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Mono Version)"
007 Book: Thunderball (1961)
Bond book: ThunderballAuthor: Ian Fleming
Publication date: 27 March 1961
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. The first novelization of an unfilmed James Bond screenplay, it was born from a collaboration by five people: Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Ivar Bryce and Ernest Cuneo, although the controversial shared credit of Fleming, McClory and Whittingham was the result of a courtroom decision.
The story centres on the theft of two atomic bombs by the crime syndicate SPECTRE and the subsequent attempted blackmail of the Western powers for their return. James Bond, Secret Service operative 007, travels to the Bahamas to work with his friend Felix Leiter, seconded back into the CIA for the investigation. Thunderballalso introduces SPECTRE's leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the first of three appearances in Bond novels, with On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice being the others.
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007 Director: Peter R. Hunt
Who: Peter R. HuntBorn: 11 March 1925, London, England
Died: 14 August 2002, Santa Monica, California, USA
Peter R. Hunt was an English film editor, director, and television producer. Hunt was known for his work on the James Bond films with his innovative editing style.
Peter R. Hunt´s 007 production:
Director:
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969)
Editor:
"Dr. No" (1962)
"From Russia with Love" (1963)
"Goldfinger" (1964)
"Thunderball" (1965)
"You Only Live Twice" (Second unit director, supervising editor, 1967)
James Bond: 1962-69
He gained recognition for his film editing techniques when he utilized quick cutting, allowing camera swings during action and inserts interleaving other elements while working as editor on the first three Bonds.
Hunt then acted as second unit or action unit director until his directorial debut, the sixth James Bond film, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". He also worked with Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli on the 1963 Bob Hope film "Call Me Bwana", and with Saltzman and a few other Bond veterans on the non-EON thriller "The IPCRESS File". "Call Me Bwana" is the only film produced by the James Bond production company Eon Productions that is not a Bond film. Hunt also directed some episodes of the 1971 British television series, "The Persuaders!", which starred future James Bond Roger Moore, and Tony Curtis.
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007 Director: Terence Young
Who: Shaun Terence YoungBorn: 20 June 1915, Shanghai, China
Died: 7 September 1994, Cannes, France
Shaun Terence Young was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing three James Bond films, "Dr. No" (1962), "From Russia with Love" (1963), and "Thunderball" (1965).
Terence Young´s 007 production:
Director:
Director:
"Dr. No" (1962)
"From Russia with Love" (1963)
"Thunderball" (1965)
Writer:
"Dr. No" (1962) (uncredited)
Miscellaneous crew:
"From Russia with Love" (1963) (Body double: Pedro Armendáriz – uncredited)
"Goldfinger" (1964) (Director: pre-production – uncredited)
James Bond: 1962-63, 1965
Young had previously worked five years earlier with the then relatively unknown Sean Connery, who was to play Bond, on "Action of the Tiger". For the first Bond film, Lois Maxwell claimed that "Terence took Sean under his wing. He took him to dinner, showed him how to walk, how to talk, even how to eat." It led to three of the first four Bond films: "Dr. No", "From Russia with Love", and "Thunderball". They became financially and critically successful and helped Sean Connery become a superstar during the 1960s.
During the filming of "From Russia with Love", Young and a photographer nearly drowned when their helicopter crashed into the sea while filming a key sequence. They were rescued by other members of the film crew. Young was back behind the camera thirty minutes after being rescued.
007 Film: Thunderball (1965)
007 Film: ThunderballRelease year: 1965
Directed by: Terence Young
Produced by: Kevin McClory
The film follows Bond's mission to find two NATOatomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE, which holds the world ransom for £100 million in diamonds, in exchange for not destroying an unspecified major city in either England or the United States (later revealed to be Miami). The search leads Bond to the Bahamas, where he encounters Emilio Largo, the card-playing, eye-patch-wearing SPECTRE Number Two. Backed by CIA agent Felix Leiter and Largo's mistress, Domino Derval, Bond's search culminates in an underwater battle with Largo's henchmen. The film had a complex production, with four different units and about a quarter of the film consisting of underwater scenes.Thunderball was the first Bond film shot in widescreen Panavision and the first to have over a two-hour running time.
CAST:
- Sean Connery as James Bond (007): An MI6 agent assigned to retrieve two stolen nuclear weapons.
- Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo (voice dubbed by Robert Rietty): Main antagonist. SPECTRE's Number Two, he creates a scheme to steal two atomic bombs.
- Claudine Auger as Dominique "Domino" Derval (voice dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl): Largo's mistress. In early drafts of the screenplay Domino's name was Dominetta Palazzi. When Claudine Auger was cast as Domino the name was changed to Derval to reflect her nationality. The character's wardrobe reflects her name, as she is usually dressed in black and/or white.
- Luciana Paluzzi as Fiona Volpe: SPECTRE agent, who becomes François Derval's mistress and kills him before being sent to Nassau.
- Rik Van Nutter as Felix Leiter: CIA agent who helps Bond.
- Bernard Lee as M: The head of MI6.
- Guy Doleman as Count Lippe: SPECTRE agent who tries to kill Bond in the health clinic.
- Martine Beswick as Paula Caplan: Bond's ally in Nassau who is kidnapped by Vargas and Janni.
- Molly Peters as Patricia Fearing: a physiotherapist at the health clinic.
- Earl Cameron as Pinder, Bond and Felix Leiter's assistant in The Bahamas.
- Paul Stassino as François Derval and Angelo Palazzi: Derval is a NATO pilot, who is also Domino's brother. He is killed by SPECTRE agent Angelo Palazzi, who impersonates him. Palazzi is later killed by Largo.
- Desmond Llewelyn as Q: MI6's "quartermaster" who supplies Bond with multi-purpose vehicles and gadgets useful for the latter's missions.
- Roland Culver as the Foreign Secretary: British Minister who briefs the "00" agents for Operation Thunderball and has doubts about Bond's efficiency.
- Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny: M's secretary.
- Philip Locke as Vargas: Largo's personal assistant and henchman who according to Largo abstains from alcohol, smoking and sexual intercourse emphasising his devotion as a killer. He is killed by Bond with a spear gun on the beach.
- George Pravda as Ladislav Kutze: Emilio Largo's chief nuclear physicist who aids his boss with the captured bombs.
- Michael Brennan as Janni: One of Largo's thugs who is usually paired with Vargas.
- Anthony Dawson as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, voiced by Eric Pohlmann (both un-credited): The head of SPECTRE
- Bill Cummings as Quist: Another of Largo's inefficient thugs who, after failing to assassinate 007, is thrown into a shark pool under orders from his boss.
- André Maranne, best known for portraying Sergeant François Chevalier in the Pink Panther films, cameos as SPECTRE #10.
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