Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Asia-Pol Secret Service - Wang Yu (1966) - View over North Point

Another wide angle view across the harbour, this time from the North Point area looking beyond towards Hung Hom and the old Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock area that later became the Whampoa residential estate. The focus in the film is the ship that is slowly making its way into harbour because it is supposedly carrying several tons of illegal gold being smuggled by the gang.

It seems that the film used different ships at different points of the film - understandable given the to'ings and fro'ings of the harbour. I believe the ship below is the RIL "Straat Fremantle", which was a passenger carrying freighter that operated Japan and South Africa with a stop in Hong Kong on the return leg (most likely it was travelling from Japan which is why it entered the harbour from the east in this scene).

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