Forbidden - Tony Curtis (1953) - Inner Harbour, Macau

A brief return to the 1950s for this next post. The film is Forbidden and stars a very young Tony Curtis as Eddie, a sort of low-level criminal who has been employed by a much bigger criminal to go to Macau to bring back the gangster's former romantic interest (Joanne Dru). The problem is, the romantic interest also happens to be one of Eddie's former romantic interests as well.

I won't spent too long on this - only a single post - other than to say that this is another studio-based film that has benefited from the real location footage captured a few years before for Macao. The very few scenes involving back-projected footage all use the Dick Davol-shot film. Given that Macao was released by RKO and this film is from Universal International means that the latter most probably bought or licensed the footage from the former (or perhaps directly from Davol?). Suffice to say there are no real on-location shots.