The Top Ten Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

The Top Ten Bond Movies...Ever?

it doesn't get much more subjective than this. Or much more fun!

Come and join international best-selling author Mark Williams on a James Bond odyssey as he explores the phenomena that is James Bond, in this the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the Bond film that made # 10 on the list: Thunderball.

Tweets from the book:

“Would blackmailing a woman for sex pass muster in the Daniel Craig era?”
Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

“Saltzman and Broccoli loved the ‘cocksure animal magnetism’ Connery exuded.”
Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

Sean Connery: “’I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman.’”
Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

“Surrounded by scantily-clad but always (this being the mid-sixties) improbably busty women.”

Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

After filming the set was dynamited to prevent other film crews using it.

Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

“Discussion about the close up scene of Connery’s crotch (is beyond my pay grade).”
Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

“Whoever heard of Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century?”
Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

“Bond villains will do anything except kill 007 when they have the chance.”
Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

“In case you hadn’t heard, Jim, no means no”
Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

“Being just a kid at the time I wasn’t invited to direct the film.”
Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

“Sean Connery doesn’t act. He just plays Sean Connery.”
Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball

“Sean Connery emerged from the pool, intact, but most definitely shaken, not stirred.”
Mark Williams - The Ten Best Bond Movies...Ever! #10: Thunderball