Production and Premiere
The film was shot on location in England and Scotland with Bletchley Park mansion substituted by Chicheley Hall. Other locations include the Great Central Railway Loughborough and Tigh Beg Croft, Oban. Interiors were filmed at Elstree Film Studios.
The film was part-financed by Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones. Jagger makes a cameo appearance as an RAF officer at a dance. He also lent the film's design department a four-rotor Enigma encoding machine he owned to ensure the historical accuracy of one of the props. The festivities around the London premiere of the film are shown in the 2001 documentary Being Mick.
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