Kung Fu Killers - Grant Page (1974) - Penha Church, Macau

A brief glimpse of the church itself followed by a panorama that could only really have been taken from the hilltop where the church is sited.

I say the panorama was most likely taken from atop of Penha Hill because there is a strikingly similar view seen in Ferry to Hong Kong that I posted about last year. Click here for the post I am referring to.

In fact we even get a brief zoom in to Green Island ( the same Green Island of the famous Green Island Cement fame) or to call it by its Portuguese name: Ilha Verde. You can see it below, in front of the distant mountain range.

Ferry to Hong Kong - Curt Jurgens (1959) - Penha Church, Macau

Well, seeing as I have just been theorising about the use of the Penha Church roof as a possible location for a camera shot of the inner harbour, I think the view of the same church in a later scene may lend some credibility to my theory. (NB: this later scene was preceded by a single shot from the earlier sequence where we can see the cross again).

Anyway, here is a brief glimpse of the side of the church as a funeral procession makes its way down the hill from the church towards the ferry. So, first off we have a repeat of the same angle from earlier (probably Penha Church cross n the right).

The next shot sees our funeral procession walking down a hill. I will make an educated guess here and say that it was probably the path that runs down the side of the hill next to the Penha Church.

I make the previous assumption (despite me knowing how geography is often messed around with in films) because the same scene shows us looking up the hill with a piece of the Church visible in the background.

Anyway, there is still a small road that runs down the side of the hill and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it was the same one - albeit now with a rather more obscured view - or at least a path than ran just next to the current road (I say that because there is a retaining wall on the film grab that looks similar in design to the wall we see on the side of the road in the streetview picture below). The road runs up to the car park below the church which can be seen in the lower picture.