In London, 1938, Ian Fleming is a dissolute playboy, eclipsed by his dead war hero father and successful brother. While propping up the bar at a jazz club, he meets Ann O'Neill, an alluring socialite. Unlike many of his conquests, Ann is more than a match for him. She already has a husband and a lover, Esmond Rothermere. Fleming finds solace in the arms of a beautiful dispatch rider named Muriel. Following a frosty morning-after encounter with Muriel, Fleming's domineering mother secures him a job assisting Naval Intelligence's Admiral John Godfrey. He quickly incurs Godfrey's wrath when he cooks up an unorthodox scheme to get information from two captured German submariners. However, Fleming's valuable findings make it apparent that an imaginative approach could be just what the war effort requires.
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
Camilla Rutherford
Loelia, Duchess of Westminster
Annabelle Wallis
Muriel Wright
Stanley Townsend
Colonel William Donovan
Antonia Thomas
Jazz Singer
Harry Treadaway
Sub Lieutenant Hepworth
Michael Maloney
Rear Admiral Rushbrooke
Eric Meyers
Colonel William Stephenson
Caroline Boulton
Janet
Dean Lennox Kelly
Sergeant Dixon
