 The film was originally intended to be filmed on location at the  Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. It was shifted to production  in England following the veto of the Citadel leaders, who had been  warned about the time consuming delays of film production from the  commandant of Valley Forge Military Academy, the scene for the 1981  military school film _Taps (1981)_ (qv). The school and its alumni  also believed that the novel was derogatory to the school (the story  was set in Charleston at a "fictional" military college that was  obviously based on The Citadel) and that the movie would do the  same.