The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990) on Netflix
NR19901h 40mAdventureBiographyWar
Ian Fleming, a womanizer and a romantic, is expelled from Eton and other public schools. His mother sends him to Reuters, and in Moscow he covers a trial of British engineers.
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Ian Fleming, who grows up to write the James Bond spy novels, is a womanizer and a romantic in his youth. His behavior gets him expelled from Eton and from other public schools, and his mother then places him at the Reuters news bureau, where he works as a newspaper writer. Reporting from Soviet Moscow, he covers a trial of British engineers. British military intelligence, an agency that would later become S.O.E., notices him there and brings him into His Majesty's Service. He then serves in British intelligence through World War II, and the exploits that follow grow more and more extraordinary.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990)
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- Producer Edgar Scherick said he invented the film's story about Ian Fleming's life as a ruse to get into business with Turner Broadcasting executive Scott Sassa, and called the finished movie a fake.
- Spymaker was the first movie made by Turner Broadcasting, according to producer Edgar Scherick, who said he only wanted to get into business with the company's executive Scott Sassa.
