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Written by Ben Branch |
May 6th 2012
Thunderball is one of the better Bond films, the financials agree with me on this as well. It earned $141 million at the box office and if you adjust for inflation, it’s still the highest grossing Bond film ever released.
Pictured above is SPECTRE agent Fiona Volpe, sitting atop one of the coolest BSAs I’ve ever seen.
If you haven’t seen it or haven’t seen it for a while, check out Thunderball here.
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