Oct 27, 2016

Thunderball - Ian Fleming (1961)

SPECTRE is trying to steal two British nuclear bombs to extort the government.  Bond recruits Domino Vitali, whose brother is a pilot in the pay of SPECTRE who plans to highjack a bomber carrying the bombs.  She is discovered trying to use a Geiger counter disguised as a camera.  She is tortured but refuses to give up any information.  The bomber is highjacked and ditched in the ocean where SPECTRE hops to recover the bombs.  Bond dives to the bomber and gets targeted by the enemy, but Domino, who escaped, shoots the bad guy, saving Bond. 

Perhaps the template for every Bond movie that followed.  The tough girl who falls for Bond, but is a force to be reckoned with on her own.

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