Thunderball

Thunderball (1965) is a spy action film you can watch online on iFILM. The fourth James Bond outing with Sean Connery sends 007 chasing SPECTRE, who have hijacked two atomic bombs and want a hundred million in diamonds or London burns.

The trail runs to the Bahamas: a dead pilot, a tattooed wrist, the lovely sister of one of the plotters. Behind it all sits Emilio Largo, a man with a yacht, a shark pool and an eye patch. Director Terence Young drops half the picture underwater, staging spear-gun duels and an army-sized battle of scuba divers in the deep. Alongside Connery are Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi and Luciana Paluzzi as the assassin Fiona.

The film won an Academy Award for visual effects and outgrossed every Bond before it. Those underwater sequences took months to shoot and still set the bar for the genre. If you want 1960s spy cinema with no half measures, this is it. Stream Thunderball online on iFILM.