James Bond and the Mysterious Moving MI6
James Bond is the quintessential Englishman, and unsurprisingly, London figures largely in the James Bond books and films.
For instance in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Bond visits the College of Arms – he intends to impersonate genealogist Sir Hilary Bray, who has been working to secure the villain Blofeld a coat of arms.
In Octopussy, again, the real world appears in the film, with the Fabergé egg being auctioned off at Sotheby’s.
But London turns up in some rather odd ways too, if you actually track the locations through the films, as Tony Reeves does in Movie London.
MI6 starts off location …read more
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