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Bond- Sean Connery
Bond's Sidekick- Kerim Bey (Pedro Armendariz)
Bond Girl- Domino Derval (Claudine Auger)
Bond Car- Astin Martin
Villain- Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi)
Villain's Sidekicks- Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi), and Vargas (Philip Locke)
Release Details
Date of release 1965
Running time 132 mins
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1 (this was the first Bond film to be made in the
full Panavision format)
Classification PG (UK)
Alternative Titles
Germany Fireball;
France, Italy, Spain, Belgium Operation Thunder;
Japan Thunderball Fighting;
Netherlands Calm Down, Mr Bond;
Denmark Agent 007 into the Fire.
Credits
Presented by Harry Saltzman and Albert R Broccoli
Directed by Terence Young
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins
Based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham
Based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham
and Ian Fleming
Produced by Kevin McClory
Production designed by Ken Adam
Director of photography Ted Moore BSC
Supervising editor Peter Hunt
Special effects John Stears
Action sequences by Bob Simmons
Main title designed by Maurice Binder
Music
Music by Eric Serra.
Music composed and conducted by John Barry
Main theme "Thunderball" sung by Tom
Jones. Lyrics by Don Black.
The song reached number 35 in the UK charts and number 8 in the US.
End theme UK versions of the film use the James Bond theme to accompany the end credits;
the international version uses an instrumental version of "Thunderball".
The main theme was originally going to be "Mr Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang" performed by Dionne Warwick, written by John Barry with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. However, it was then decided that the main theme should bear the title of the film, so it was not used. However, an instrumental version is used in the soundtrack, and the song itself was released on the James Bond 30th Anniversary Collection.
