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 _Thunderball (1965)_ (qv) was a fairly faithful  adaptation of the published novel, McClorys suit resulted in only  the earlier screenplay being credited as source material. McClorys  producer credit on that movie is possibly just another term of the  settlement. The case was settled out of court.