The Night My Number Came Up - Michael Redgrave (1955) - Kai Tak Airport - Part 1

I first became aware of this film thanks to an article in the SCMP written by Adam Nebbs for his travel column. You can still see the piece here, and it explains the film better than I could - plus it has a link to the digitally restored film clip that shows the plane landing at the old airport. I did manage to find a copy but it was an inferior quality version that looks to have been recorded from the TCM channel and then transferred to DVD. Never mind, the quality is good enough for the purposes of identifying most of the locations.

It seems that 1955 was a busy year for foreign film makers in Hong Kong because this is now the fourth film I have been made aware of that was shot around that time, the others being Soldier of Fortune (actually shot at the tail-end of 1954), Flight to Hong Kong and Love is a Many-Splendored Thing.

Much of the Hong Kong location shots are actually just the old airport, however, it was filmed from various angles and I have decided to split those ones into separate parts starting with this view from the north west. The runways occupied the San Po Kong area (that was eventually turned into a factory estate). The flat area in the lower part of the image with a curved lane running alongside it shows what is now Morse park and Fung Mo St.