...and Millions will die! - Richard Basehart (1973) - Rumsey Street carpark

Just when you think you have run out of films, one appears that you feel you should already have known about it a long time ago. So next up we have ...and millions will die!, a 1973 Australian TV movie that was a pilot for a series that never was. It stars Richard Basehart (his second appearance in Hong Kong, and on this blog, following the earlier Visa to Canton) as Dr Pruit, some sort of Australian-based investigator into chemical weapons. He is called to a gas poisoning incident in a small Asian territory in the midst of a civil war and the incident leads him and his team to Hong Kong where a former Nazi chemist has planted a time bomb attached to some cannisters of the same poison gas.

It's a bit of a weird film that pretends several Singapore locations are actually in Hong Kong (for example, the Tiger Balm Gardens sequences were filmed at Haw Par Gardens in Singapore, not Hong Kong) but there are some interesting locations to see and I like it when obscure films like this show upon my radar, regardless of quality. It also includes Leslie Nielsen in the first of his two outings (that I know of) to Hong Kong. You may remember he was also in Blade in Hong Kong.

I've managed to get hold of a slightly better definition version from some nefarious corner of the internet and uploaded it to Youtube here, so please feel free to go and watch.

The film starts with long drawn out sequence that turns out to be a dream, as two gunmen meet in a carpark and make their way to their target. The carpark is the Rumsey Street carpark on the Sheung Wan waterfront.