Here's another oldie but forgotten about location that I was supposed to post years ago. This is the scene in the film where Suyin goes to meet her friend for coffee. The exterior of the coffee shop was filmed outside the Kayamally Building at what was 20-22 Queen's Road Central. You can just see the neighbouring Shell House in the background of the screen shots below.
For the interior scenes though, this was a studio set. The image through the cafe window was a back projection of some footage filmed on Queen's Road Central at the bottom of Pottinger Street. I've included the shot of that for reference.
The plot that these two buildings (Kayamally Bldg and Shell House) sat on now hosts the Central Tower building, that occupies the whole corner with Wyndham Street.
I have explained in my older posts that every single dialogue scene in this movie was shot on a sound stage. Not a single scene involving dialogue was shot on location. I'm not familiar enough with sound recording technology to know if this was because the technology (sync sound) didn't exist at the time, or whether the general noise in Hong Kong simply made it impossible to do cleanly (which is why many local films were still filmed this way well into the 80s and 90s). If you know, please feel free to comment.
You can just make out the sign for Shell House in the background.
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