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.
Genres
Adventure, Action, Thriller
Studio
EON Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How Thunderball performed
Budget
$9.0M
Worldwide Gross
$141.2M
Gross Profit
$132.2M
Return
15.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$16M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~33/67, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Adventure) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
James Bond
Sean Connery
James Bond
Dominique 'Domino' Derval
Claudine Auger
Dominique 'Domino' Derval
Emilio Largo
Adolfo Celi
Emilio Largo
Fiona Volpe
Luciana Paluzzi
Fiona Volpe
Felix Leiter
Rik Van Nutter
Felix Leiter
Count Lippe
Guy Doleman
Count Lippe
Patricia Fearing
Molly Peters
Patricia Fearing
Paula Caplan
Martine Beswick
Paula Caplan
M
Bernard Lee
M
Q
Desmond Llewelyn
Q
Miss Moneypenny
Lois Maxwell
Miss Moneypenny
Foreign Secretary
Roland Culver
Foreign Secretary
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