Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - Kai Tak Signboard, Kowloon

Moving onto Episode 10, To Catch a Star, in which a visiting movie star decides to generate some publicity by staging a kidnap before her kidnappers decide to do it for real. The establishing shot for the airport, which was used several times in future episodes, is an old signboard at Kai Tak. I'm not sure where the main entrance to the airport was at this time but this was before the new terminal opened in 1962 and there was a 'temporary' terminal building (which also pops up as an establishing shot in later episodes) that I believe was sited somewhere around the site of today's "The Latitude" development. Corrections welcome. Also seen in The Survivor and Love, Honor and Perish.

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