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Fleming

Duration:

44 min (approx.)

Genres:

Biography | Drama

IMDB rate:

7.5

Awards:

3 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Annabelle Wallis

Fleming

Dominic Cooper

Ian Fleming

Lara Pulver

Ann O'Neill

Samuel West

Rear Admiral John Godfrey

Anna Chancellor

Second Officer Monday

Rupert Evans

Peter Fleming

Lesley Manville

Evelyn Fleming

Pip Torrens

Esmond Rothermere (4 episodes, 2014)

Camilla Rutherford

Loelia, Duchess of Westminster

Dean Lennox Kelly

Sergeant Dixon (2 episodes, 2014)

Stanley Townsend

Colonel William Donovan (2 episodes, 2014)

Antonia Thomas

Jazz Singer (2 episodes, 2014)

Tom Whitecross

Dorchester Singer (2 episodes, 2014)

Lee Asquith-Coe

Marine Cowie (2 episodes, 2014)

Did you know?

Trivia

Pip Torrens (Esmond Rothermere) previously played Noel Coward in Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005).

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Second series in which Lara Pulver is referenced to as "that woman," the other series being Sherlock.

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Goofs

The US intelligence agency is mistakenly referred to as the CIA, when at the time that the show is set it was still called the OSS. The CIA wasn't created to take over OSS duties until 3 years later in 1946 which was after World War 2 ended.

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Naval officers, in particular Rear Admiral Godfrey, would never wear a goatee beard. Since the modern age all British naval personnel would be permitted to wear a full set or nothing at all.

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Faq

How close to reality is this story?

In some ways very close, on the outbreak of WW2 Ian Fleming joined naval intelligence (largely through his family connections). Fleming was intimately involved in many of the Allies intelligence secrets, instrumental in setting up 30 Assault Unit and its' spinoff T-force, commando units designed to go in ahead of the frontline troops and capture intelligence secrets. Many of the later elements found in the Bond books were present including advanced spy technology and the Enigma machine which would form the inspiration for the Lektor decoder in 'From Russia with Love'. The Bond book 'Casino Royale' was based on Flemings failed attempt to bankrupt several gamblers at a casino in neutral Portugal whom he believed were German agents who could then be bribed or blackmailed. There is no evidence however that Fleming saw any action beyond observing the Dieppe raid from a supporting destroyer. He certainly suggested the idea of planting fake documents on a corpse to be found by the enemy as early as 1939 (taking the idea from a fictional novel by WW1 spy hunter Basil Thomson) but there is no evidence that he was actively involved in Operation Mincement which successfully put the idea into practice.

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