What is Thunderball / You Only Live Twice about?

Name: Thunderball / You Only Live Twice
Genre: Action/Adventure,Suspense/Thriller

THUNDERBALL, 1965, MGM Repertory, 130 min. Dir. Terence Young. One of our favorite Bonds, with Claudine Auger, compromised mistress to one-eyed villain Adolfo Celi; fiery Luciana Paluzzi, a lethal femme fatale; and Martine Beswick, Bond’s assistant. Bond (Sean Connery) gets his rest cure cut short when a British bomber with two A-bombs is hijacked by SPECTRE and secreted in the Caribbean. Best Special Effects Oscar Winner (John Stears). YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, 1967, MGM Repertory, 117 min. Director Lewis Gilbert directs the fifth movie with Sean Connery. To fit the scale of brinkmanship the producers felt the public expected, SPECTRE’s kidnap of American and Soviet space capsules to start WWIII was added to the original storyline. Bond’s death is faked, and he’s sent to Japan to meet with Japanese secret service head, Tetsuro Tanba and operatives Mie Hama and Akiko Wakabayashi. To cap things off, the great Donald Pleasence is Blofeld.

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What is Thunderball / You Only Live Twice about?: THUNDERBALL, 1965, MGM Repertory, 130 min. Dir. Terence Young. One of our favorite Bonds, with Claudine Auger, compromised mistress to one-eyed villain Adolfo Celi; fiery Luciana Paluzzi, a lethal femme fatale; and Martine Beswick, Bond’s assistant. Bond (Sean Connery) gets his rest cure cut short when a British bomber with two A-bombs is hijacked by SPECTRE and secreted in the Caribbean. Best Special Effects Oscar Winner (John Stears).

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, 1967, MGM Repertory, 117 min. Director Lewis Gilbert directs the fifth movie with Sean Connery. To fit the scale of brinkmanship the producers felt the public expected, SPECTRE’s kidnap of American and Soviet space capsules to start WWIII was added to the original storyline. Bond’s death is faked, and he’s sent to Japan to meet with Japanese secret service head, Tetsuro Tanba and operatives Mie Hama and Akiko Wakabayashi. To cap things off, the great Donald Pleasence is Blofeld.