Noble House (Mini series) - Pierce Brosnan (1988) - Tao Fung Shan, Sha Tin

Instead of going through all the hassle of arranging filming permits and the like and forking out all that money to take actors and film crew up to Beijing, the producers of Noble House decided instead to make use of some closer locales to stand in for Beijing. So, when Dunross heads over to the Motherland to do some brokering with the Chinese, all he is really doing is heading into the hills next to Sha Tin train station. The elegant venue is Tao Fung Shan and it's a Christian Seminary built in the style of traditional Chinese temples.

Brosnan's oposite number in China was played by acting stalwart Ric Young who has been popping up in films all over the place since the 1960's. If you've seen Lord Jim you may not have realised that the young native spy who mans the boat up the river with Peter O'Toole was non other than Rick. He also played a machine gun toting gangster in the opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as well as Bruce Lee's dad in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (and many more, but these three I have covered on this blog).