CREDITS EYES WIDE SHUT, 1999 dir: Stanley Kubrick Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman Sydney Pollack Alan Cumming Rade Serbedzija

After all the hype and the secrecy, Stanley Kubrickís final movie was greeted with a strangely muted reception, but thereís no denying how gorgeous it all looks.

Although itís set in ‘New York’, there are only the most fleeting glimpses of the real city, courtesy of a Second Unit.

The ‘Long Island’ mansions were found in the Home Counties, the ‘Greenwich Village’ streets constructed at Pinewood Studio or faked in corners of central London.

The exterior of the mansion of Victor Ziegler (Tootsie director Sydney Pollack, replacing Harvey Keitel), is the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, East 37th Street at Madison Avenue in the real New York.

The party interior, though, where Dr Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) attends to a guest after she ODs on a speedball, was filmed at Luton Hoo , near Luton in Bedfordshire. A popular filming location, Luton Hoo was once open to the public but has been sold and is to be turned into a hotel. Including. It's famously featured in Four Weddings and a Funeral).

Eyes Wide Shut location: the interior of Victor Ziegler's ‘New York’ mansion: Luton Hoo

Most of the ‘Greenwich Village’ street scenes were shot on huge and elaborately detailed sets at Pinewood (the proliferation of T-junctions is a dead giveaway), but for a few shots, London streets were dressed as New York.

After leaving the apartment of hooker Domino, Dr Bill is stalked by a sinister man as he walks along Hatton Gardens, where New York-style payphones were installed between numbers 32 and 38. The stalker, apparently across the street, is on Worship Street, EC2, just off City Road near Old Street in the City (look out for the real Nicon House, 21 Worship Street, in the background). Berner Street and Eastcastle Street also became ‘Greenwich Village’.

The interior of ‘Club Sonata’, the New York jazz club, is Madame JoJo's, Brewer Street, in Soho.

The Royal Suite of the Lanesborough Hotel, 1 Lanesborough Place, SW1, was the site of the edge pool-game meeting between Bill and Ziegler.

Knebworth House (‘Wayne Manor’ in Tim Burtonís Batman) was screentested and rejected, for the masked ëorgyí scene. In the end, two separate locations were used.

Eyes Wide Shut location: "Somerton', the 'Long Island' mansion: Mentmore Towers, Mentmore

Coincidentally, the exterior is another ‘Wayne Manor’ – Mentmore Towers, in the village of Mentmore, Buckinghamshire (seen in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins). It is no longer open to the public.

The exotic interior, with its Indian-style carvings, is Elveden Hall, a private house on the A11 about four miles west of Thetford in Suffolk. Elveden Hall also stood in for the interior of the palatial home of villain Manfred Powell (Iain Glen) in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

The huge revolving doors of the new Chelsea and Westminster Hospital complex on Fulham Road, Chelsea, lead into the spacious atrium where Dr Bill goes to look for the unfortunate Amanda Curram (Julienne Davis). The hospital was also where Imogen Stubbs dies in childbirth, leaving Richard E Grant bringing up baby in Jack & Sarah, and appears in Sliding Doors.

The final Christmas shopping reconciliation scene was filmed on the ground floor of the famous toyshop Hamley's, Regent Street, London W1.