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Released
1965 · FILM

Thunderball

A recuperating James Bond uncovers a SPECTRE plot to hijack atomic bombs and hold NATO hostage, forcing him to stop a double-crossing assassin and a vengeful operative before the world is thrown into chaos.

“Look up! Look down! Look out! Here comes the biggest Bond of all!”

Directed by
Terence Young
Written by
Richard Maibaum, John Hopkins
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
130 min
ActionAdventureThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A criminal organization has acquired two nuclear bombs and is demanding a 100 million pound ransom in diamonds within seven days, or they will detonate the weapons. The Secret Service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to prevent the catastrophe and save the world.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 45+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ernest HoslerShot by Ted MooreScored by John BarryDesigned by Ken Adam

Box Office

1965 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 16× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$141.2M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$141.2M
break-even (2.5×)

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Also known as

  • Feuerballde
  • James Bond 007 - Feuerballde
  • Operación Truenoes
  • Opération Tonnerrefr
  • Agente 007: Thunderball - Operazione tuonoit

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