off projects, a newspaper  comic strip and a television series, for 007 novels, and similarly  turned this one into his novel "Thunderball". However, in this case  his right to do so was not so clear. When Harry Saltzman (qv)  bought the film rights to the Bond novels from Fleming and went into  partnership with Albert R. Broccoli (qv), McClory initiated legal  action. Although this production is a fairly faithful adaptation of  the published novel, McClorys suit resulted in only the earlier  screenplay being credited as source material. McClorys producer  credit is probably just another term of the settlement. The case was  settled out of court.