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THUNDERBALL. In his fourth film outing, easily the most spectacular to date, James Bond (Sean Connery) claims his quota of girls, gadgets and bogus glamour while hunting for stolen atom bombs in the briny deeps near Nassau...
...Historian Bruce Catton points out in a glowing foreword, the authors have also given a good example of what the raw material of history looks like, for they offer both the pertinent and the bogus. They give the conflicting eyewitness accounts of the President's murder and the wild rumors that swept Washington, as well as a factual narrative of the events before and after his death. There are not only pictures of Booth's derringer, the chair Lincoln sat in, the clothes he wore; there are also spurious photographs of Lincoln in death and of mawkish funeral...
Thunderball spreads a treasury of wish-fulfilling fantasy over a nickel's worth of plot. The fantasy is the familiar amalgam of wholesale sex, comic-strip heroism, bogus glamour and James Bond (Sean Connery). The plot concerns Bond's new nemesis, Largo. As No. 2 man of Spectre, Largo masterminds a daring bombnap. He hijacks a Vulcan bomber aloft on a NATO training flight, sinks its atomic payload in the Atlantic near Nassau. Then, for an asking price of ?100 million, he promises not to obliterate Miami or a city of equal size...
...creator is 33-year-old Ernest Pintoff, a gifted animator who put outsize satirical bite into such prizewinning cartoon shorts as The Interview and The Critic. In his first full-length feature in color, Pintoff has harnessed live actors to a dead horse. Harvey Middleman exudes a bogus air of originality, but is seldom funny enough to make its simplicity seem unpretentious...
...stage has often been used as a soapbox, but Newley's brand of social protest is stale, sour and weary. Since the same message would cost nothing on a street corner, it takes a certain amount of bogus adornment and gall to charge $9.60 for it in the theater. Greasepaint has plenty of both...