A Lotus for Miss Quon - Lang Jeffries (1967) - Tung Lok Theatre, Yuen Long

Although I covered this surprisingly good film several years ago (six to be precise), like many movies I cover I didn't get all the locations I was looking for. Sometimes it takes me years to get back around to them and then have another attempt at tracking them down, case in point. In hindsight, I should have started my search in Yuen Long earlier given the fact that the film was shot mostly in the general area. It turns out this was the Tung Lok Theatre (同樂戲院) on Castle Peak Road - Yuen Long. 

Anyway, this is the cinema that Mark Jason (Lang Jeffries) ducks into to avoid the police. He stands in the lobby for a short while - spot the posters advertising the local Cantonese films 神劍魔簫 (Powerful Sword, Magical Flute - not sure if it's part 1 or 2 though), and 濟公大鬧公堂 (Trouble in Court). Both films were released in 1965 and so were most likely on the latter of multiple runs. Either that or the cinema just couldn't be bothered to take the posters down.

As Jeffries moves over to the ticket office we see the same two posters plus an extra one on the left which is for 火龍神珠 (The Dragon Flag and the Sacred Pearl) released in October 1966.

Here's some images of what was on the theatre marquee.

The top image shows artwork for 鐵扇公主 (Princess Iron Fan) although the artist has used a weird Trad/simplified hybrid character for 鐵. Anyway, it was a Shaw movie release in Aug 1966 and the actor playing Sun Wu Kong was Yueh Hua (previously seen on the blog for Come Drink with Me). In the lower image, the right hand side is for a film called 冷月離魂 (Bitter Fear), released in November 1966, and on the left is 姑娘十八一朵花 (Girls are Flowers) released at the same time. Hidden on the far left is a partial poster for 莫忘今宵 (Forget Not Tonight) released Oct '66.

Anyway, this is apropos of nothing much other than for me to be able the narrow the possible filming date of this movie as sometime around November/December of 1966.

The cinema lasted until the late 80s before being demolished and replaced by the current Yuen Long Landmark building. The building in the background of the image of Jeffries smoking is Kwok Wah Mansion.It's the only building still around from this little sequence and is located at 142 CastlePeak Road - Yuen Long.