Thunderball
Look up! Look down! Look out! Here comes the biggest Bond of all!
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons.The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
- Director
- Terence Young
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Action
- Worldwide
- $141M
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A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
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The record
Awards
1 win · 1 nomination
Academy Awards
1 win · 1 nomination
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Visual Effects
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Thunderball returned 15.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $9M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $141M
- Release date
- Dec 11, 1965
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English, French
- Country
- United Kingdom
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