Thursday, September 18, 2025

James Bond Movie: ****^Thunderfall (1965)

This is the basic spy vs spy formula but it adds some special things that makes this one better.  Sean Connery again stars as James Bond with same support staff of M and Moneypenny and Q (Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewelyn).  The villain is Number Two, Largo (Adolfo Celi).  Then his henchwoman, Fiona (Luciana Paluzzi), who says she would kill Bond, but gets shot by one of her own men.  The fly in the ointment for SPECTRE is Largo's niece, Domino (Claudine Auger).  She discovers that Largo has killed her brother.  Then she is determined to do everything she can to bring him down.  

The plot of this movie revolvrs around recovering a couple nuclear bombs that have been stolen from NATO.  Bond is trying to recover them.  He uses the help of CIA agent Felix Leiter (Rik Van Nutter).  

The thing that makes this movie different and better than other Bond movies is the underwater battle between forces of NATO and forces of SPECTRE.  Pretty exciting stuff.  And Largo does get his in the end.

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