Coincidentally, this spa houses a bunch of other shady people who will be connected to the film’s baddie – the eyepatched Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi, voice dubbed by Robert Rietty), whose character lives in Nassau (Bahamas). Bond is sent by M (Bernard Lee) to a spa to recover. Bond kills him and escapes in the famous jet pack scene (MI6 possessed jet packs in 1965 and still hasn’t shared the technology fifty years later!). In the opening scenes, Bond (Sean Connery) attends the funeral of a SPECTRE – a global criminal syndicate – agent but that agent has disguised himself as his widow and soon ambushes Bond. But in order to get through the thick of it, one has to endure drawn-out secondary scenes that make the Thunderball the first Bond movie to exceed two hours. Thunderball’s plot might be, in retrospect, one of the most comprehensible Bond narratives out there. But Thunderball is an above average entry into the franchise with underwater battle scenes that run on too long, an extremely attractive Bond Girl with a backstory that never pays off, and more humor than any other 007 film yet released. Before Thunderball came Goldfinger, the best James Bond film that has ever been made (come at me Daniel Craig fans), and if one thinks too much about the previous film, Thunderball falters on almost every level. By this time in the series, the most commonly recognized tropes of all Bond films had been solidified: the drinking, the Aston Martin, the infernally cheesy gadgets, the distinct lack of clothes, the non-Bond Girl women who almost always end up dead, and, of course, those cat-stroking, ring-wearing villains.
When unadjusted for inflation, Thunderball would not be surpassed until 1979′s Moonraker, deep into Roger Moore’s tenure as 007. As the fourth film in the James Bond franchise, Thunderball was, until 2012′s Skyfall, the highest-grossing 007 film when adjusted for inflation.
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