Saturday, May 28, 2022

Asia-Pol Secret Service - Wang Yu (1966) - Shaw Brothers Movietown

After Wang Yu runs up the hill he arrives, not at Monte Fort as you would expect but, at the backlot of Movietown in Clearwater Bay where he takes cover behind some (prop) ruins and is about to be gunned down by the gangsters. It wouldn't surpise me if these ruins were quickly knocked up just for this one particular scene given how adept the Shaw bros art department was. This area is largely taken up by the University of Science and Technology (HKUST) which has been slowly taking over the hills around Movietown since the 1990s.

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