The Road to Hong Kong - Bob Hope (1962) - Connaught Road, Sheung Wan

One final shot from The Road to Hong Kong for the time being and it's a brief scene showing a car driving along the waterfront along Connaught Road. I'm not sure exactly at which point but I would imagine it is somewhere around where the old ferry piers used to be (what would be today's Shun Tak Centre). Feel free to comment if you know anymore.

The Road to Hong Kong - Bob Hope (1962) - Nathan Road, Mongkok

More stock footage from this film includes this nice north looking shot of the junction with Shantung Street along Nathan Road. The Paramount nightclub and Theatre was quite a distinctive landmark at the time. 

Actually, we were here not so long ago because I believe the building occupied the whole block up to Nelson Street and this post was located at the far end.

The Road to Hong Kong - Bob Hope (1962) - Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon

One of the most used establishing shots on HK set films is the footage of a plane landing at the old airport, and this film is no different. Sadly, no low level plane landing but instead some quick footage of a plane that looks to have landed on the runway from the harbour end of the runway.

The Road to Hong Kong - Bob Hope (1962) - Hong Kong Club, Central

In a rather weird use of stock footage, the Hong Kong Club is used to establish a shot that was obviously meant to still be in India. I guess this colonial style of building is one that can be found in many of the tropical and sub-tropical places the Brits decided to invade during their empire building. In the film, we see it, and the Cenotaph, from the direction of the southern side of Chater Road near to the Supreme Court building.

The Road to Hong Kong - Bob Hope (1962) - Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong

Some more travelogue style images of Hong Kong from The Road to Hong Kong, this time we are looking across the harbour towards the western end of HK Island. Of course we can still see the Star Ferry (for the time being at least...) but I think the HK harbour views really miss the old style fishing junks which have all disappeared (well, apart from the fake touristy ones which just aren't the same).

The Road to Hong Kong - Bob Hope (1962) - View over Wanchai, Hong Kong

Here's a quick look at some of the Hong Kong scenes incorporated into this film starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Joan Collins. It was shot entirely at Shepperton studios in the UK so of course all of our Hong Kong scenes were most likely taken from stock footage.

Here is one of the first views of Hong Kong looking east to Wanchai. It looks as though it was taken when the typhoon shelter reclamation was taking place for what would eventually become Victoria Park.The park officially opened in 1957, so it's probably safe to say this was perhaps early to mid-50's. Not too far from when the film was made (unlike Target Hong Kong which used 1930's footage for a 50's set thriller).