By the time Stanley Kubrick came to make "The Shining" in the late '70s, he was firmly ensconced in England. The Bronx native had moved to Britain in the early '60s to shoot "Lolita" at the famed Elstree studios. After that, he stayed. Not only did he stay, but in order to make all the cinematic classics for which we now know him, he made everyone else come to him. Before he designed the industrial nightmare Gotham for Tim Burton's "Batman," for example, production designer Anton Furst was tasked with creating Vietnam in North London for Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket." This continued right up until the director's final film, "Eyes Wide Shut," which took Kubrick's exhausting methods to new extremes by requiring entire New York City blocks to be recreated on the backlot of England's Pinewood Studios -- all because Kubrick refused to actually shoot on location.

Prior to "Eyes Wide Shut," those exhausting methods were arguably most prevalent on the set of 1980's "The Shining," the bulk of which was shot -- you guessed it -- in England, even though it's set in Colorado. At the time Kubrick's Stephen King adaptation began shooting, the filmmaker had moved to the now famous Childwickbury Manor in Hertfordshire, from where he commuted to set every day. But that's not the full story, as the movie did include footage that was actually shot in the United States -- just not a whole lot of it.

How, then, did Kubrick manage to shoot an entire movie about a Colorado hotel almost exclusively in the United Kingdom?