Thunderball (1965)

An original 1965 United Artists Black and White Photo Still #T-14, unframed.

James Bond (Sean Connery) prepares his escape by Bell Textron Jetpack after infiltrating the funeral of a SPECTRE operative, soaring over a chateau wall to his waiting Aston Martin DB5.

The château is real. The sequence was filmed at the Château d'Anet, west of Paris, built in the sixteenth century for Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of Henri II. The rocket belt, meanwhile, went on to an even grander stage: nineteen years later Bill Suitor, who had flown it for the film, strapped one on again and soared into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum at the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympic Games, in front of a worldwide television audience.

• Year: 1965
• Condition: Unframed
• Type: Original Photo Still
• Size: 8 x 10 inches
• Product Code: T6652