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Turtles in Movies   Thunderball (1965)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is the fourth James Bond movie. It's the one with the long underwater battle between armies of scuba divers. British secret agent 007 James Bond (Sean Connery) is hunting for the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. terrorists who hijacked two nuclear bombs from a NATO jet, threatening to blow them up in the UK and the US unless they are paid a hundred million British Pounds. Bond goes to the Bahamas to find Domino (Claudine Auger), the sister of one of the men flying in the hijacked jet. When we first see her, she is diving in the ocean, holding on to the shell of a sea turtle, making it pull her along. (When we last see her, she and Bond are pulled into the air out of a life raft by a rope attached to an airplane.) The turtle scene is a foreshadowing of the underwater battle finale where we see divers being pulled by underwater vehicles. Bond ogles her from behind some coral, then talks with her after she surfaces. Domino becomes the key to Bond's success in recovering the nuclear bombs because she is the girlfriend of Emilio Largo, the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent in charge of the hijacking. True to her name, whenever we see her she is wearing only black and white.