Thunderball

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• While there really is an area known as the "Golden Grotto" in the Bahamas (now rechristened to "Thunderball Reef"), the Golden Grotto sharks that Largo keeps in his swimming pool and describes as "the most dangerous, the most savage" shark species of them all, are entirely fictional. The Bull/Zambezi shark is regarded as the most dangerous to man in all tropical waters.
• This film was Sean Connery's own favorite performance as 007.
• Movie Goof (revealing mistake): An obvious stunt double for Bond portrayer Sean Connery, clad in a pink swimsuit, swimming in the canal, then emerging up the stairs and alongside the bridge
• The only individual James Bond movie to win a Visual or Special Effects Oscar (Academy Award). It was for Best Effects, Special Visual Effects and awarded to John Stears in 1966. Moonraker was nominated for Best Effects, Visual Effects in 1979 but did not win. Albert R. Broccoli received the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy for producing the group of James Bond movies in 1982. Goldfinger won the first Bond Oscar for Sound Effects.