Thunderball (1965)

Plot Summary:
James Bond's fourth adventure takes him to the Bahamas, where a NATO warplane with a nuclear payload has disappeared into the sea. Bond (Sean Connery) travels from a tony health spa (where he tangles with a mechanized masseuse run amuck) to the casinos of Nassau and soon picks up the trail of SPECTRE's number-two man, Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi), and his beautiful mistress, Domino (Claudine Auger), whom Bond soon seduces to his side. Equipped with more gadgets than ever, courtesy of the resourceful "Q" (Desmond Llewelyn), agent 007escapes an ambush with a personal-size jet pack and takes to the water as he searches for the undersea plane, battles Largo's pet sharks, and finally leads the battle against Largo's scuba-equipped henchmen in a spectacular underwater climax. This thrilling Bond entry became Connery's most successful outing in the series and was remade in 1983 as Never Say Never Again, with Connery returning to the role after a 12-year hiatus. Tom Jones belts out the bold theme song to another classic Maurice Binder title sequence.

Cast overview:

Sean Connery ........ James Bond
Claudine Auger ...... Domino Derval
Adolfo Celi ......... Emilio Largo
Luciana Paluzzi ..... Fiona Volpe
Rik Van Nutter ...... Felix Leiter
Guy Doleman ......... Count Lippe
Molly Peters ........ Patricia Fearing
Martine Beswick ..... Paula Caplan
Bernard Lee (I) ..... M
Desmond Llewelyn .... Q
Lois Maxwell ........ Miss Moneypenny
Roland Culver ....... Foreign Secretary
Earl Cameron (I) .... Pinder
Paul Stassino ....... Major Francois Derval/Angelo Palazzi
Philip Locke ........ Varga