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Thunderball, 1965
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Thunderball, 1965

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Thunderball, 1965
Peter Hunt's shooting script for Thunderball, dated 30th November, 1964, 159pp. of mimeographed typescript including several pages of script revisions, various dates up to 19th March, 1965, with orange paper covers stamped in black ink with the film title, the majority of pages annotated in blue or black ballpoint pen in Hunt's hand with his notes on camera directions, observations, additions and deletions to the scenes and script - amendments to Bond's dialogue include:
- p.62b, as Q shows Bond the underwater breathing device...Q:It closes to a convenient pocket size, Hunt has added a response for Bond: That is if you have a convenient pocket; on the blank facing page of the script, a few extra lines of dialogue have been added between Felix Leiter and Bond in the form of light banter which prompts Q's admonishment: I'd prefer to continue without these interruptions 007;
- p.113b, in Fiona's bathroom in the Coral Harbour Hotel when she tells Bond to take off his wet clothes...We don't want you to catch cold, Bond's scripted reply of We certainly don't is scored out and replaced with The things I do for England...;
accompanied by a reel breakdown comprising 9pp. of mimeographed typescript; and a synopsis of music, 2pp., all bound in blue cloth boards
Literature
"The Peter Hunt Interview" by Gary Giblin, Secret Intelligence webzine, 1998, www.secretintel.com/archives
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Lot Essay

In an interview in 1998 for Secret Intelligence magazine, Peter Hunt recalled the editing challenges posed by the underwater sequences in Thunderball. The director, Terence Young, was apparently disgruntled with the pace of these sequences and relied heavily on Hunt's editing skills to improve the pace. According to Hunt, Young never liked Thunderball and apparently gave Hunt a free reign in directing the film.

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