Thunderball (novel) "Daily Express" strip was cut short on the order of its owner, Lord Beaverbrook, after Ian Fleming signed an agreement with "The Sunday Times" to publish a short story. On screen, "Thunderball" was released in 1965 as the fourth film in the Eon Productions series, with Sean Connery as James Bond. The second adaptation, "Never Say Never Again", was released as an independent production in 1983 also starring Connery as Bond and was produced by Kevin McClory. BBC Radio 4 aired an adaptation in December 2016, directed by Martin Jarvis. It starred Toby Stephens as Bond and Tom Conti as
Diamonds Are Forever (film) John W. Mitchell and Al Overton. It lost to "Fiddler on the Roof". Diamonds Are Forever (film) Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 James Bond spy film and the seventh in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth and final Eon film to star Sean Connery, who returned to the role as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, for the first time since "You Only Live Twice" (1967), having declined to reprise the role in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969). The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel of the same name, and