The Brain Stealers - Lily Ho Li-li (1968) - Shaws Movietown

I seem to have lost count how many times Shaw House has been used as a nightclub in one of its productions. In this film it is called Queen Bee and is supposed to be located in Tokyo. In the film it is owned by Chiu-lan's fiance, Jia-wen (Peter Chen Ho) and is where her brother is kidnapped from.

This isn't the only appearance of Movietown in the film though and a few more shots were used for a variety of scenes. The following ones are when the UN are showing agent 009 (Lin Chih-yung) footage of the scientist's laboratory.

The famous yellow gates (Shaw fans know)

There are also some other lab vicinity scenes later that were also filmed inside Movietown. IN fact, I believe the buildings you see below are ones that have been left intact at the very front of the plot (including the old Shaw House). The first building below was the old colour lab located at the south tip of Movietown.

The Colour Lab

You can see the Colour Lab in the distance

The Yellow Gates

Tragic Hero - Chow Yun Fat (1987) - Shaw Bros Dormitories, Clearwater Bay

The exterior scenes of the police station where Chai's wife, Po (Carina Lau), is being held were filmed at the old Shaw dormitories next to Movietown. The interior scenes were shot somewhere else though (looks like a real, but old station - yet to be determined).

The Angel Strikes Again - Lily Ho (1968) - Lung Ha Wan, Clearwater Bay

Lung Ha Wan a.k.a Lobster Bay has long been a popular filming location for local (and overseas) movie productions. In this film it is where 009 and Deng Lei (Tang Ching) finally catch up with the female gang boss. This whole area seen below has changed significantly with the constrcution of the riding school as well as the general growth of trees and other vegetation. You can see the same area from the other side at the beginning of Weiße Fracht für Hongkong. This area (top three images below) is now all part of the riding school. In the fourth image we see the path up to what is now the kite flying area.

Sticking with Lobster Bay and the following captures are from later in the film as the gang pick up their ransom money via scuba diver. The diver exits Port Shelter via the first beach at Lobster Bay (where the concrete ramp was later constructed by smugglers before being destroyed by the British Army). The diver gets into the car and it drives back up Lung Ha Wan Road.

Summons to Death - Tang Ching (1967) - Lobster Bay, Sai Kung

Mei-Li and Tang Lui agree to meet Poon at Lobster Bay to formulate a plan to get back at Ma Loong. This is a section of Lobster Bay that is now fairly difficult to reach due to general growth of foliage and the construction of the riding stables. I did some coasteering here about ten years ago, but sadly my only pictures of this section are looking in rather than looking out (see lower image). In my more 'recent' image (actually snapped in July 2015) the area we see the actors arriving in the top image is the foliage covered area behind the beach.

The Young Rebel - David Chiang (1975) - Sheung Sze Wan, Clearwater Bay

Xiao Rong accepts employment from the gangster boss and one of his first jobs is to hijack some people and rob them. This scene was shot above Sheung Sze Wan in Clearwater Bay. The whole area below them is now built up with village houses.

The Young Rebel - David Chiang (1975) - Tai Hang Tun, Clearwater Bay

Xiao Rong meets up with his fellow delivery riders to share their collective stolen goods. This is the pavilion located at Tai Hang Tun. This is the same pavilion that can be seen in Yellow Emanuelle. He returns at a later time to find out that his friends have been scared off by a bunch of gangsters who want him to help them steal stuff from the grocery store.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Clearwater Bay Road, Tai Hang Tun

The final truck chase is a mixture of shots taken along Route Twisk and Clearwater Bay Road - two routes quite distant from each other - and edited together to make a single sequence. The shots below are from the scene where the pursuing police cars all run into each other and was shot at the very southern end of Clearwater Bay Road at Tai Hang Tun. The area down the slope to the right is the carpark. The large hill in the background (Tin Ha Shan) of the top two images is actually located on the opposite side of the (Clearwater) bay. In the middle ground to the left you can see the pavilion that marks the kite flying area, it's the same pavilion still there today and was featured in Yellow Emanuelle.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Shaws Movietown

 Agent 009 finds out from his singer/girlfriend that her boyfriend, one of the band members, has got hold of some of the counterfeit cash, so he goes to the guy's apartment to investigate. Sadly the Oriental Hotel wasn't a real place and was just one of the Shaw Buildings dressed up with a false entrance/facade. I talked about the same building in this post, but if you miss the Streetview link in that post, here it is again. I'm not sure what purpose this place served in the general goings-on at Shaws, it may have just been an admin building. Either way, the ground floor was dressed up nicely to look like a hotel. In the screen cap below you can see the striped poles that held up the roof of a car port. A better view of the car port can be seen here.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Shaw House, Movietown

009's investigations lead him to "Club Fantasia" where one of his fellow airplane passengers works as a singer. It turns out she is indirectly mixed up in the counterfeit dollar conspiracy via one of her band members. The club didn't exist in real life because anyone with any knowledge about Shaws will be able to recognise the curved lintel and blue tile surround of Shaw House in Movietown.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Clearwater Bay Road

009 eventually decides to pull over on Clearwater Bay Road where he is harrassed and then gets into a fight with the police. The bad guys look on as he is arrested and it seems to allay their suspicions that he is some sort of secret agent.

Anyway, the location for this squabble is where the Hang Hau Road and Clearwater Bay Road roundabout now stands. The first image shows us looking more or less north, as the cars and bikes drive down the road towards the turnoff for Silverstrand Beach Road.

We can actually identify a few of the buildings even though they no longer exist in this form. In the top image on the left we have a building that was called "Villa Placida". This place is also called "Chocolatier" on some maps and has been sitting empty for a long time - making it popular with Urbex peeps. (see here). 

In the second image the camera has panned slightly to the right showing a blue trimmed building on the right hand side. This is the original house located at 1 Silverstrand Beach Road. On older maps it's marked as P.I.M.E House, which makes me think it might be owned by the Catholic Church. However, this building was redeveloped - so perhaps it was sold and redeveloped privately? If you know, please feel free to comment.

In the last image we are looking the other way, down the road with the beach turnoff on the left. There are three properties that are (almost visible). On the left we can see what looks to be the car port of a property that was called "Clearview". It has since been developed into a small development called Sussex Lodge. Sitting on the hill in the centre is the previous version of a house that with no name or number. I only know it occupies Lots 281, 282 and 282EXT of DD224. This might be enough for the postman, but it does make you wonder who lives there. The final house on the right is the former property occupying 836 Clearwater Bay Road. This place has long gone and been replaced by a massive house and perimeter wall.

Once again my Google marker is snapping to nearby buildings, it's not intentional and is beyond my control it seems.

The Generation Gap - David Chiang (1973) - Shaw's Movietown

It wouldn't be a Shaw film if it didn't have at least one recognisable bit of the old Movietown complex. This location is where the gang rob a currency exchange. If you remember my The Yellow Muffler posts, this is the other side of the building I have marked as point A on this post, and is the same location I featured recently for Police Force.

The Generation Gap - David Chiang (1973) - Lung Ha Wan Road, Clearwater Bay

Ling Xi has some sort of dream of them both riding along on a motorbike. This was shot along Lung Ha Wan Road in Clearwater Bay.

Police Force - Wang Chung (1973) - Shaw Brothers Dormitories, Clearwater Bay

The two thieves are chased to a "housing estate" before being cornered by Wong. In reality these are the dorms at Shaws Movietown and are currently one of the only remaining parts of the original site. Even the bridge is still there as well as the spiral stair-cased guard tower, albeit looking very decrepit. Sadly the robbers aren't the ones responsible for Liang Kuan's death, so the hunt continues.

Police Force - Wang Chung (1973) - Shaw's Movietown, Clearwater Bay

The robbery scene was shot at the Movietown complex. The yellow building is actually the other side of the building identified here as point A. This area in the complex was eventually replaced by the newer, modern "Shaw House" office block (that still stands today - one of the few buildings that has so far avoided demolition). The old building in the screen cap was still there - covered in plant growth - until a few years ago (see here), but was demolished when the site was sold for redevelopment.