Look Up! Look Down! Look Out! Get your limited edition Thunderball 40th Anniversary event programme - now available to order online

Thunderball 40th Anniversary Brochure
3rd January 2006

To commemorate the 40th Anniversary screening of Thunderball, Cinema Retro magazine, Bondstars.com and mi6-hq.com commissioned a glossy 30 page programme especially for the occasion. Bond Stars have strictly limited stock of what is sure to be a highly collectable item, so get your copy now!


Above: (Page 3) Event Programme

The 32 page programme contains:

  • Many rare B & W and colour stills
  • Biographies of all our special guests who attended the 40th Anniversary Event
  • Tributes to special effects geniuses Bert Luxford & John Stears
  • History of the Thunderball Rocketbelt
  • How Thunderball changed underwater filming forever
  • How Thunderball launched James Bond mania
  • Production notes
  • What the critics said
  • Cast and crew quotes
  • Feature on the Thunderball premiere in Japan
  • Behind the scenes stills and trivia section

The price of each programme is £15.00 including worldwide postage and packaging.

Order your copy from Bond Stars


"One of the most professionally-organised Bond events I've ever attended, and it was so nice to be able to meet up with my old comrades again. Thank you."

- Sir Ken Adam (production designer)

"What a magnificent print of Thunderball. Brilliant! Great night, and loved the special colour brochure you produced for the occasion. Glad to be part of a very special event."

- Sir Christopher Frayling (Rector, Royal College of Art)


Above: (Page 9) Tribute to special effects experts
Bert Luxford and John Stears


Above: (Page 12) Look Up! - Author Paul Brown looks at the Rocketbelt which featured in Thunderball

"To see so many people dressed in black tie at the champagne reception was wonderful. A class act. Ian would have loved this."

- Peter Jansen-Smith (Ian Fleming's literary agent)

"It was like being a film premiere party. Men dressed in tuxedos, women looking glamorous, everyone drinking champagne and mixing with the stars - incredible!"

- Euan Lloyd (film producer)