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Thunderball
1965
· Movie
· 130 min
B
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2282
- IMDb #2389
- Google retired #1625
- Rotten Tomatoes #1718
- Metacritic #2261
- Letterboxd #3275
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1591
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2318
- Metacritic Audience #2687
- Criticker #1823
- Douban #1773
- Kinopoisk #1857
- AlloCiné #1773
- Trakt #2653
Every rating
48–88
out of 100
A criminal organization, SPECTRE, steals two nuclear bombs and holds the world for ransom. A sophisticated intelligence operative is assigned to locate the bombs before the deadline expires. His mission takes him to the Bahamas, where he must confront the operative who has the bombs and navigate a web of deception.
Details
- Director
- Terence Young
- Writers
- Jack Whittingham, John Hopkins, Kevin McClory, Richard Maibaum
- Based on
- Thunderball by Ian Fleming
- Studio
- EON Productions
- Released
- 11 December 1965
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $9.0M
- Box office
- $141.2M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 major award won · 1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| 38th Academy Awards 1966 | Best Visual Effects | John Stears | Winner |
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38th Academy Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Visual Effects | John Stears | Winner |