The Seventh Sin - Eleanor Parker (1957) - View from Peak

The film opens properly with a view down to the harbour and its surrounds from the Peak. The film is set in 1949 but I have now confirmed that the director, Ronald Neames (who later left the project because he was unhappy with it), did indeed send a Second Unit crew to capture some local footage. So I think the view we are looking at is indeed from c.1957. The reason I am confident is that you don't go to the expense of a second unit on location and then resort to library footage anyway. Further confirmation perhaps can be gleaned from the fact that I can see the HSBC and Bank of China buildings in Central (latter completed in 1951), but the Chartered Bank building is missing. This was completed in 1959.