The Black Dragon's Revenge - Ronnie Van Clief (1975) - Villa Alfavista, Tsing Lung Tau

I think this will be the last post from me here for a while as, due to various circumstances, I have to head back to the UK. Sadly for me, the UK has been put on a high risk list for HK returnees which mean my stay will be much longer than originally intended. Anyway, I'll still be online, just not able to produce anything for this blog for the time being.

Anyway, back to Tsing Lung Tau and this time we are next door to Dragon Villa at an apartment complex called Villa Alfavista. For some reason, for the finale, the film crew decided to film the actors walking through the grounds here rather than the actual location next door (even though they filmed much of the finale next door anyway).

You can also see Villa Alfavista in the background behind Ronnie's head in the next image.

The Black Dragon's Revenge - Ronnie Van Clief (1975) - Essex Crescent, Kowloon Tong

More scenes around the Kowloon Tong Estate include this one taken at close to where Essex Crescent joins on to Cumberland Road. The irony is that, given this is a film about Bruce Lee's death, his house is a 20 second walk from this location - and in 1975 it was still in the same condition as it was when Bruce lived there. What a shame the film makers didn't make an effort to try and use it properly.

The Black Dragon's Revenge - Ronnie Van Clief (1975) - Kowloon Tong Alleyways, Kowloon

In the scene where Charles Bonet is attacked by a bunch of marauding bad guys, the action takes place in a sort of curved alleyway that is supposed to be at the back of his shop. In fact it was the alleyway located behind Essex Crescent and the Kowloon Tong Club. Anyway, here are the grabs.

The Black Dragon's Revenge - Ronnie Van Clief (1975) - Chak On Road South, Tai Wo Ping

Here's one that I was quite quick to recognise because I actually live not very far away and often walk by. It's Chak On Road South. The sequence in the film is when the bad guys decide to take out all the enemies one by one and the next target is Chan Yiu-lam (陳耀林). He is walking along a deserted road when he is attacked and beaten with poles before eventually getting stabbed to death.

In the top two images below you can see, in the distance, a building painted red with a staircase attached to the side. This was actually the original rear annex of the Society of Boys' Centres The Chak Yan Centre School. The school is still there but this rear annex has been replaced by something a bit bigger. I should add that this view is no longer available because of all the development that has taken place at the northern end of Nam Cheong Street and along Cornwall Street. However, the building is quite easy to see on the "history" section of the centre's website.

The road appears to have been a service road for some of the building sites that were springing up in the area as Cornwall Street was extended from Kowloon Tong to this part of Nam Cheong Street. These days it is a dead end that leads to another service road that provides access to the Shek Kip Mei service reservoir, later built at the back of Garden Hill.