Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Lancashire Road, Kowloon Tsai

We really are seeing a wide variety of locations on this car chase. Agent 009, realising he is being followed, decides to cement his bad boy reputation with the bad boys (to try and convince them he is not an agent) by getting into a chase with the police. So he speeds past them on Lancashire Road and a couple of bike cops take the bait.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Cornwall Street, Kowloon Tong

It took me a while to recognise this street because it has changed so much...but then again the main property seen here is still around. It's the former "Senior Officer's Residence" at 1A Cornwall Street. It was part of the former British Garrison and still has its War Department "Defence Lot" granite marker stones along the outer wall. It's now supposedly occupied by someone from the PLA but after an external renovation circa 2013 (not long after I moved nearby) it has since become rather scruffy and dirty in the way that buildings do in Hong Kong's harsh climate. Does anyone know who is here? You can just see one of the original Kowloon Tong villas to its right - however, I think this house was replaced soon after this film was shot by the property currently occupying the site.

The red garage door belongs to 22 Kent Road - later famous for being turned into the "Take One" night club where Anita Mui was assaulted by a gangster who was later shot and killed on his hospital bed. This was in the early 90s. Since then it has served as a private temple and for as long as I can remember has been sitting empty awaiting new use. As I write these words some scaffolding has been assembled on the site so it looks like someone may have successfully bought or leased it. Time will tell.

Finally, the building in the distance at the far end of the road is the original Baptist Hospital building. The block still exists but was been subsumed into a much bigger development. Actually, as I speak the hospital is redeveloping that area so the original block will be no more in a few months I think.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Princess Margaret Road, Ho Man Tin

We continue along Princess Margaret Road and in the background is a building still around - the "Maryknoll Sisters Centre". You can just about make out the large cross that has been shaped into the window aperture above the main entrance.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Waterloo Road

The next shot shows the cars driving up Waterloo Road on the Princess Margaret Road Flyover. We come back to this same area (more or less) a bit later as we get a top down view of the junction with Argyle Street and the aforementioned flyover as 009's car comes back the other way. These latter two images must have been taken from a camera located on the roof of the newly built Harrison Court.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Prince Edward Road West

After Salisbury Road, the cars are driving along Prince Edward Road West - yes, this is one of those car chase scenes that have no logical geographical continuation. The large building in the back right is St Teresa's Hospital, or at least the original version before it was redeveloped.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

After leaving the airport, the next shot we see is of the cars driving along Salisbury Road. This view was shot from the Blackhead Point hillside (aka Signal Hill Garden) with its previously unfettered view of the peninsula and harbour below. At this time the other side of the tracks by the pedestrian bridge was still occupied by Holt's Wharf, and obviously the KCR terminus stayed aropund until its eventual demolition in 1978. You can just see a train on the sidings at the top of the lower image.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - More Kai Tak

I thought these images deserved a bit more attention because they show the view from the Kai Tak Airport carpark over to Sa Po Road in Kowloon City. In the far distance on the right hand side (bottom image) you can see the old (recently demolished) Block 22 of the Tung Tau Estate. The bamboo scaffolding structure in front of it was most likely a Cantonese Opera tent being erected for either Chinese New Year or perhaps a Da Jiu festival for the nearby village. This space was later occupied (and still is) by the former Regal Airport Hotel that was connected to the airport Terminal building by a footbridge.

None of these buildings along Sa Po Road exist anymore. A few of the buildings in the image had already been replaced by the 1970s and now even the rest of this whole block has just been demolished for a U.R.A rejuvenation project.

There is a similar era (but less oblique) view from the I Spy series here.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Kai Tak Airport

009 is sent to Hong Kong to start his investigation and arrives at Kai Tak. He has already been identified by the bad guys and is followed from the airport. The airport also pops up at the end of the film as he heads off to wherever he is supposedly based, so the lower images of the terminal interior are from that last scene.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Kiu Tsui Beach, Sharp Island

We first meet agent 009 as he smooches on the beach with a couple of girls (a recurring theme throughout this movie) and he is summoned by his bosses via his radio. The beach in question is Kiu Tsui beach located at the north end of Sharp Island.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Nam Sang Wai, Yuen Long

The next film from the ever expanding Shaw collection on Youtube is the 1967 James Bond rip-off, Inter-Pol. It stars a very suave looking Tang Ching as Chen Tian-hong (a.k.a agent 009). Following some fellow agents being killed in the Philippines, he is called in by his Interpol bosses to investigate a US dollar counterfeiting scheme believed to be operating out of Hong Kong.

The opening scene is supposed to be in the Philippines but was actually filmed at Nam Sang Wai, a popular filming location that has been featured many times on the blog, but it's slowly being threatened by redevelopment and no doubt will one day just look like another high rise suburb.