The Big Game - Brendan Boone (1973) - Kai Tak Airport

Next up is another German production from 1973. The Big Game. This one is about a secret US science project that controls peoples' minds. A group of international terrorists are after it and target a member of the US Foreign service, Jim Handley, (Brendan Boone) whose father (Ray Milland) is running the project. France Nuyen plays Atanga, Jim's love interest. The film was shot on location in Rome, Hong Kong, and, for their shame, apartheid-era Cape Town. The Hong Kong part of the film starts with, surprise surprise, the protagonist arriving in Hong Kong via the airport triggering the requisite shots of a plane landing on the old runway.

In the lower images you can see Po Sing Court in the background - the white block of flats. This place is still around but the Regal Kai Tak Hotel (now called the Regal Oriental) was built in front of it in 1982. The smaller building, painted yellow, was on the corner of Sa Po Road but was demolished to make way for the Kam Fai Commercial Building in 1981.