Wikipedia Plot:
SPECTRE operative Emilio Largo devises a plan to hold NATO to ransom by hijacking two atomic bombs from a RAF Avro Vulcan bomber during a training exercise. While staying at the Shrublands health resort, SPECTRE operative Count Lippe has French Air Force pilot François Derval murdered and replaced by Angelo Palazzi, whose face has been surgically altered to match Derval’s. At the last minute, Palazzi demands more money, to which SPECTRE agent Fiona Volpe acquiesces, to have him continue with their operation. Palazzi hijacks the bomber, killing its crew, and lands it in shallow waters within the Bahamas. While the bombs are recovered by his men, Largo kills Palazzi.
British secret agent James Bond, recuperating at Shrublands after killing SPECTRE assassin Jacques Bouvar, notices Lippe and keeps him under observation, discovering Derval’s body. Upon returning to London, Bond finds himself targeted by Lippe. Volpe kills Lippe, whose recruitment of Angelo jeopardised Largo’s scheme. All 00 agents are put on high alert after SPECTRE threatens that a major city in the United States or United Kingdom will be destroyed unless they are paid £100 million within seven days. Bond requests of M that he be assigned to Nassau, Bahamas, to contact Derval’s sister Domino, after recognising Derval as the body he found at the resort.
Bond meets with Domino, whom he learns is Largo’s mistress when he visits a local casino. Bond and Largo engage in a cat-and-mouse game while feigning ignorance of each other’s true identities. Bond meets with his friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, fellow agent Paula Caplan, and MI6 quartermaster Q, to receive equipment, including an underwater infrared camera and miniature underwater breathing apparatus. Investigating Largo’s ship, the Disco Volante, he notices an underwater hatch. He visits Largo at his estate during the night, only to find that Paula has been abducted, and has committed suicide rather than talk. Bond evades Largo’s men during a Junkanoo celebration. Volpe catches up with Bond, but is killed when he puts her between himself and a henchman aiming for Bond.
Bond and Leiter find the Vulcan camouflaged underwater, along with the bodies of Palazzi and the crew. Bond reveals to Domino that her brother was killed by Largo, and she helps search the Disco Volante. Largo captures her. Bond replaces one of Largo’s men as SPECTRE prepares to move the bombs, and learns where one of them is being moved to before being discovered and left behind. He and Leiter get the US Coast Guard and US Navy to battle the Disco Volante crew, and recover one of the bombs in an underwater battle. Bond pursues Largo and grabs hold of the Disco Volante as it sheds its rear half to become a hydrofoil to attempt escape. Bond gets on deck and sends the Disco Volante out of control while he defeats Largo’s men and fights Largo. Largo gains the upper hand and is about to shoot Bond when Domino kills him with a speargun in revenge after his hired nuclear physicist Ladislav Kutze frees her. The three escape the Disco Volante seconds before it crashes into rocks and explodes. Bond and Domino are retrieved by a plane using a sky hook.
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- Domino has the most fun Bond Girl nickname
- Worst themesong of the bunch
- Thunderballs don’t exist in real life.
- Don’t take it too seriously
- Same plot, different villains