Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street - Sam Hui (1984) - Pearl Court, Beacon Hill

And so, onto the next movie. This time I am, once again, looking at a Tsui Hark movie as part of my current side project. Mad Mission 3 (a.k.a Aces Go Places 3) concerns Sam Hui's jewel thief character, King Kong, becoming embroiled in a plot to steal the crown jewels. It's basically a big huge James Bond parody and even includes a shady British agent of the same name (played by Connery-era lookalike, Jean Mersant).

Kong is in Paris for a heist but is waylayed and eventually kidnapped by said agent who asks him to help get the Crown Jewels back from Hong Kong on behalf of the Queen (played by the same French actress, Huguette Funfrock, who played her in Bons Baisers de Hongkong).

In reality he's being duped to do the thievery on behalf of Bond who is, in fact, an international jewel thief and is trying to sell the crown jewels to an Arab Sheik. Cue lots of really naff humour, some quite laugh-out-loud slapstick and lots of truly poor special effects. Apparently, when Tsui saw the finished product he was truly miffed at how crap it looked but it still went on to be the top earning film of 1984 and broke the HK box office record that year.

Anyway, once the story moves back to Hong Kong, the first thing we see is Karl Maka's Police character returning home.The home in question is not far from me in fact. It's Pearl Court, on Rhondda Road in the Beacon Hill area of Kowloon Tong. It's next door to Beverly Heights, which is famous for being the place where Bruce Lee died.