Saturday, April 5, 2025

Sweet is Revenge - Yueh Hua (1967) - Lung Ha Wan, Clearwater Bay

Continuing a look at some of the movies on the Celestial Youtube channel, here is another title, Sweet is Revenge, starring Yuen Hua as a sort of Robin Hood type character. The film also stars Ho Fan who most people would more likely recognise as a famed HK street photographer, but he also dabbled in acting in the 1960s as well as some serious directing later. In this film he plays an innocent doctor who is framed for a crime and sent to prison so a local General's son can move in on his fiancé. As with many Shaw productions, much of the film is shot on sound stages, but there are afew outdoor locations. The first one is the location of the prison where David (Fan Ho) is locked up.
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For this scene, it looks as though a facade was constructed at the headland of Lung Ha Wan, a.k.a Lobster Bay. This is the exact same spot today where the riding stables are located. In the top image you can see the slight slant of Lung Ha Wan Road mid-distance in the background.




In a scene a few minutes later, Ma (Chen Hung-Lieh) and Wang (Li Ching) are attending to David's gravesite on a hill. This was also filmed at Lung Ha Wan, on the slope of the hill that is now the kite flying area. Even though the stables don't quite extend this far, the slope is now completely overgrown and covered in vegetation. In the last image below, the view to the back is also now obscured by tree/bush growth. For anyone interested, in that last image, the area behind the two actors leads to this beach, and is the same location where Julius (Gabriele Tinti) gets a snake up the jacksy in Black Cobra Woman (see the last two images in that link).


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