May 2009

Emilio Largo played by Adolfo CeliThunderball featured the Italian villain Emilio Largo. In the film he was a white haired SPECTRE operative with an eye patch. In fact he was No. 2 in the organisation and described as the head of extortion operations. He was played by the Italian actor Adolfo Celli. Largo also appears in the 1983 remake of Thunderball, Never Say Never Again, but his forename is changed to Maximillian and he is played by the Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Largo plays out a classic baddie plot which has been reused several times over the years in numerous productions. He has stolen two nuclear bombs from the careless chaps at NATO and now he is blackmailing the world. If they don’t stump up £100 million in diamonds then he is going to destroy an undisclosed city. It later turns out to be Miami that he is targeting.

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