Allison (Vince Edwards) looks out of the window where he is chatting with Puan (Efren Reyes) and sees his estranged (and until then, missing) wife on the street below. We are looking directly down onto the old Hong Kong Macao Wharf where ferries such as the Fatshan and Tai Loy (later renamed to the Chung Shan) berthed. This place started life as a Japanese owned wharf called the Osaka Shosen Kaisha Wharf (O.S.K) but following the war/occupation was confiscated by the HK Govt earning it the name "Custodian Wharf" and later becoming the HK Macao Wharf sometime in the 1950s.
This film gives us a really nice view of the building that fronted the pier along Connaught Road. I've never seen it this close before. We also get some shots waterside as well as a close up of the rear of the aforementioned Tai Loy.
For modern day context, the pier was located along Connaught Road at the end of Gilman Street.
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