CREDITS DIE ANOTHER DAY, 2002 dir: Lee Tamahori Pierce Brosnan Halle Berry Judi Dench Toby Stephens Rosamund Pike Rick Yune John Cleese Michael Madsen Madonna

Lee Tamahori brings a touch of grittiness and – almost – realism to the early scenes (could you imagine Roger Moore's Bond going shaggily unshaven?) , but is let down by some cheesy effects and downright silly gimmicks (invisible cars!).

The opening surfing scene features what are claimed to be the biggest waves in the world at a Peahi Beach, called ‘Jaws’, on the north coast of Maui, Hawaii.

Bond comes ashore, however, at Holywell Bay, near Newquay in Cornwall. ‘North Korea’ is largely the backlot at Pinewood studios in England, though airborne scenes filed at the army base in Aldershot in Hampshire.

ëHong Kongí was also faked on sets, and the US blockade of Cuba meant that the real ‘Havana’ was out of the question.

Cadiz, on the Atlantic coast of Spain (where it rained constantly), stood in for the Cuban capital, but the interior of the cigar factory, where Bond drops the magic name Universal Exports in his search for Zao, is Simpson House, 92 Stoke Newington Road, north London.

And how times change. Remember Sean Conneryís Bond dissing pop music in Goldfinger (“like listening to the Beatles without earplugs”)? Now Bond arrives in the capital to the accompaniment The Clash.

The entrance to the (fictitious) ‘Vauxhall Cross’ tube station is a security booth at the southern end of Westminster Bridge, alongside County Hall. The guys who work there are supposedly getting a bit pissed off with Bondites banging on their door, wanting to see the mysterious lost station. But you’re not that dumb, are you? It's a movie, for God’s sake, the interior is a set. Duh!

The station set is based on the old, unused Aldwych Station, on the Strand, which itself has been used in loads of films, including An American Werewolf in London, Sliding Doors, Prick Up Your Ears, The Krays and the supremely creepy Death Line (where it stood in for Russell Square Station).

Further west, on the South Bank of the Thames, alongside Vauxhall Bridge, stands the genuine Vauxhall Cross (albeit without a station), the fancy new HQ of the real MI6, and seen at the start of the boat chase in The World Is Not Enough.

Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens) makes a spectacular entrance, parachuting down in front of Buckingham Palace at the top of the Mall.

Die Another day location: The duel in 'Blades': The Reform Club, Pall Mall

Gentlemanís club ëBladesí is mainly a set, as you can tell from the way the surroundings are treated, but the central section of the fencing duel and the lobby, where Bond receives the mysterious key, are the Reform Club, 104 Pall Mall, seen in the 2001 remake of The Four Feathers with Heath Ledger, Lindsay Anderson’s anarchic O Lucky Man! and Roger Donaldson's The Bounty. Although the Reform was the starting point for Phileas Fogg's journey Around the World in Eighty Days, a different London club was used for the 1956 epic.

Gravesís ice palace is in Iceland, where the ice chase filmed on the frozen Lake Jokulsarlon, near Hofn. The biodome interior is based on the Eden Project, Bodelva, a complex of three geodesic domes, four miles east of St Austell in Cornwall. Itís an ambitious biosphere project designed to promote the relationship between plants, people and resources.

The real Eden Project is briefly glimpsed as Jinx (a stunt double, not Halle Berry) rappels down.

The exotic beach-house, where Bond and Jinx finally get it together among the diamonds, is Penbryn, between Aberystwyth and Cardigan, Wales. The ëlove nestí took a team of eight several days to construct, though it appears on screen for seconds, and neither Pierce Brosnan nor Halle Berry appeared at the location.