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:. Little Known Facts .:


  • Thunderball was the last James Bond movie to win an Academy award, John Stears won for best special effects.
  • Martine Beswick, who plays Paula, was also the gypsy fighter Zora in From Russia With Love.
  • Thunderball was the highest grossing movie in the year 1966, in both America and the United Kingdom.
  • Claudine Auger helped design many of her bathing suits in the film.
  • The rebreather was made of two co2 capsules.
  • Thunderball was the first movie where Lois Maxwell, Miss Moneypenny, was provided with a wardrobe she had to provide her own costumes for the first three films.
  • The nuclear bombs were designed from hidden camera photographs from Ken Adam and Peter Lamont.
  • Originally Bond was supposed to check his geiger counter/watch so often that Domino thinks she is boring him with her conversation.



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