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"Mt Saint Michel Mix + Saint Michaels Mount" is the title of an experimental electronic track by musician Aphex Twin, who grew up in Cornwall.
St Michael's Mount was one of the locations featured in the BBC One "Balloon" Idents.
St Michael's Mount was used in the 1979 film Dracula as Castle Dracula and also in the 2003 film Johnny English as the exterior of the character Pascal Sauvage's French chateau.
In the 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again, two guided missiles armed with nuclear warheads fly over the English countryside and out to sea, passing directly over St Michael's Mount.
In Michael Moorcock's series of Fantasy novels about Prince Corum, a fictionalised version of St Michael's Mount appears as Moidel's Mount.
In the Spring of 2012, it was a filming location of the fantasy adventure movie Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box, which is scheduled for release in 2013.
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