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This movie shot its snow scenes in the region of Tirol, Austria, where James Bond Creator Ian Fleming spent some time during his early life. In 1927, Fleming was sent there by his mother to the town of Kitzbühel, in the Tirol. The Cine Tirol Film Commission's website reports that its Director, Johannes Kock, has said of this: "Even though this will be the first time that Agent 007 will be filmed in Tirol, there is an enduring connection between the most famous Secret Agent of all time, and our region. Ian Fleming, the author of the Bond novels, lived in Kitzbühel in the 1920s, and studied at a private school." Also, Fleming returned to Kitzbühel with his son and wife when he was aged around fifty years. But during Fleming's youth, Tirol was the place where he had learned to ski, with a downhill event in Kitzbühl later being named after him, and also was where he was encouraged to write by author Phyllis Bottome, the wife of Fleming's tutor Ernan Forbes Dennis. Rob Tryan in his article 'Why S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (and Bond) is at home in Austria' at his 'Books, Travel, Music & Food' website says: "In the thirties he (Fleming) would also meet the splendidly named Conrad O'Brien-ffrench in the Tirol. He was an adventurer, explorer, an excellent skier and a spy. He worked for the Z Organization, a kind of shadow MI6 that was sympathetic to Winston Churchill's insistence that Adolf Hitler wanted war. He set up a network of Agents across Austria and Southern Germany. Ian and his older brother Peter Fleming (at that point a very successful author) often bumped into O'Brien-ffrench, as the man's cover was that of a travel agent looking to open up the region to British tourism. When war broke out, O'Brien-ffrench escaped from the Nazis by hiking over the Alps into Switzerland. Some claim he was later very influential in securing Fleming a post in Naval Intelligence during World War II."

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