Harry's Hong Kong - David Soul (1987) - Ladder Street, Sheung Wan

In general the quality of the available online versions of Harry's Hong Kong is fairly low and has prevented me from really getting into the details of various street-level locations, but here is one that many people should recognise. It's the section of Hollywood Road where Ladder Street crosses on its way up to the mid-levels. You can't see the Man Mo Temple, but the corner building antique emporium (Yue Po Chai Curios Store) doesn't appear to have changed very much over the past 30+ years. The building it is in is the Tai Hing Building. This was the replacement to the older tenement building that featured (as an exterior only) as the Nam Kwok Hotel in The World of Suzie Wong. That older building was replaced by this one in 1967, so this "newer" one is already more than 50 years old. It's sobering to know that Nancy Kwan, who celebrated her 21st birthday whilst filming that movie, turned 80 this year!

Anyway, I think that's about the lot from Harry's Hong Kong. Time for another quick break before tackling the next movie.

Harry's Hong Kong - David Soul (1987) - The Peak, Hong Kong

Harry goes up to the peak to meet his journalist girlfriend, so we get some shots of the tram before the pair head over to the Lion's Club Pavilion.

Harry's Hong Kong - David Soul (1987) - Tsim Sha Tsui Waterfront, Kowloon

Does anyone remember the time when there was lots of artwork along the waterfront at Tsim Sha Tsui? I can remember when it was empty (I think) during my first few trips in the mid to late 90's, and then  of course just before I moved over full-time it was converted into the "Avenue of Stars". It appears I was too late though to see some of the larger Moore-esque art installations that were set up along the waterfront. I wonder what happened to them?

Harry's Hong Kong - David Soul (1987) - Aberdeen Harbour, Aberdeen

An area that pops up a couple of times is the Shum Wan section of Aberdeen Harbour where Harry goes for a meetup with his girlfriend (of sorts) as well as where part of the plot reveal takes place at the end of the movie. We see the restaurant pontoon area at the end of Shum Wan Drive (last see a few weeks back in Godzilla V Destroyah) as well as the Jumbo restaurant.

The buildings at the back are the Aberdeen Marina Club

Harry's Hong Kong - David Soul (1987) - Ching Chung Koon, Tuen Mun

Harry is waylaid by the local Triad gang because their boss (played by James Hong) believes he was party to the theft of their money by his disappeared buddy. The boss gives Harry a time limit within which he needs to return the money. This meeting between the two occurs at Ching Chung Koon in Tuen Mun.

Harry's Hong Kong - David Soul (1987) - Elm Tree Towers, Tai Hang

Harry's flat is located in a development called Elm Tree Towers on Chun Fai Road in Tai Hang. It looks as though the scenes filmed inside the flat were also done on location because the balcony shape matches one of the building's penthouse balconies. 

Harry's Hong Kong - David Soul (1987) - Tin Hau Temple, Repulse Bay

One of Harry's clients has hired him to find her missing husband and he meets up with her in Repulse Bay in front of the Tin Hau temple, which is masquerading as a cafe.

Harry's Hong Kong - David Soul (1987) - The Peninsula Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui

The Peninsula Hotel features a fair few times in this show because it's where the main character has his office. It looks as though the room used as a stand in for harry's office is one of the top floor suites in the east or west wing of the hotel. You can tell this by the window shape in the background because only the top floor rooms facing the harbour have he same arched window shape (you may remember that Ryan O Neal and Candice Bergen also filmed in one of these suites for Oliver's Story back in 1978). I guess for a 1980s Aaron Spelling production, hiring one of these huge suites for a day's filming wouldn't have been considered extortionate, but was this also the Marco Polo Suite?

Harry's Hong Kong - David Soul (1987) - Hotel Miramar, Tsim Sha Tsui

Harry spends a lot of his time visiting the Shing Po Night Club (聲寶夜總會). This looks like it was a real place but I haven't been able to locate where it was yet. However, the interior shots for the club were actually filmed at the Miramar Hotel inside the Miramar Theatre Restaurant. This should ring a bell with a few people because I did a post about it quite recently for the French film Banzaï.

As previously mentioned, the hotel was demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the Mira Place shopping mall. The hotel was rebranded to "The Mira" and opened up in a new venue on the opposite side of the road.

Harry's Hong Kong - David Soul (1987) - Former Victoria Barracks, Central

The first major scene in this show is when Harry pops along to visit his policeman friend who is overseeing a parade. I must admit I am not 100% sure about the location here because I cannot find a single image online to corroborate. My gut feeling is that these are part of the former barrack blocks that once lined the hillside inside Victoria Barracks (now Hong Kong Park).

There was a line of five blocks (named Blocks A through E) that once sat where Pacific Place mall now stands and they have been seen on this blog on a couple of occasions previously (Block A was used in Project A and Block D was seen in The Protector).

Unfortunately, finding good images of each of the blocks is difficult and I have yet to see ones of Block B and C so perhaps this is what we are looking at below? If anyone knows one way or the other then it would be great to get confirmation. There are still similar blocks to be found in Hong Kong but they all differ in terms of height, column type, arch shape etc and I can't find any to match the ones below. Perhaps Neil MacDonald will once again come to my rescue... :)