Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Sunset - Paul Chin Pei (1971) - Shaw Bros Dorms, Clearwater Bay

In the scenes when Ching Li is rushing in the rain to try and meet up with Paul Chin Pei she supposedly leaves a 'clients' house (nope, not what you are thinking - she was a clothes designer in the film) in the pouring rain and heads to the car driven by her colleague (who also fancies her and has been waylaying her deliberately so she misses her date).


The building she is leaving is actually next door to Movietown and was one of the dormitory buildings that all the contracted staff lived in. The pebble-dashed panels on the front are quite distinctive. I went to the old studio site a couple of years back and these old dorm blocks were still there at the time in 2009 - though I believe they may be scheduled for redevelopment at some point.


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