Cool GIF from Thunderball’s trailer. I’ve always loved the simplistic elements of retro James Bond movie trailers!
An atomic bomb in Thunderball (1965) advises to “Handle Like Eggs”
Sean Connery as James Bond in 
Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo in Thunderball (1965)
Largo needs to look both ways before crossing the street!
It’s sometimes overlooked and odd to think about that James Bond villains have to have a physical headquarters. They need a place to reside, meet and plot. Over the movies, we have seen them in all shapes and sizes, from a hollowed-out volcano lair, an abandoned satellite, an off-shore oil rig or a gold refinement factory.
In Thunderball (1965), we get to visit SPECTRE (Special Executor for Counterintelligence, terrorism, revenge, extortion) headquarters, of which Ernst Stavro Blofeld is its leader and Emilio Largo is number two in charge. What’s unique about Thunderball, however, is that we see the exact perspective of a villain leaving the public world (this time a city) and every step of their commute to their proverbial work desk. Here, Largo enters the Centre International D’Assistance aux Personnes Replacées (International Brotherhood for Assistance of Stateless Persons), goes to the back of the office and opens a secret door to the SPECTRE meeting room via buttons on a custom cigarette holder.
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A “recovering” James Bond endearingly says this friendly quote after a session with his rehab aide Patricia Fearing. Although a playful, funny quip, Bond shows his nonchalance (and the 1960s misogyny he’s sometimes known for) after coaxing Fearing for a romp after her incompetence leaving 007 trapped and unaccompanied in the stretching rack machine.
Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi) is unfazed as a colleague gets murdered (electrocuted) during a meeting of SPECTRE in Thunderball (1965)
James Bond (Sean Connery) tosses flowers on his defeated foe in Thunderball (1965)
