Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine - Jean-Paul Belmondo (1965) - Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon City

There are some interesting things to see in the (compulsory) Kai Tak shots. Including some great views over Kowloon Tsai park.

The curved road you can see in the lower pictures is the service road that still cuts into the park. You can access it via Inverness Road which is the larger road underneath the plane in the bottom picture. Just poking up at the bottom of those lower pictures are the orange roofs of the pool houses. I hadn't realised the pool had been there for so long. Some of the buildings along Inverness Road are also still around including the ones at the lower part of the picture which include Yee Court (closest to the bottom of the picture) and the Bethel Kindergarten with the sloped roof behind it on the opposite side of Dumbarton Road - actually the whole complex there is part of the Bethel Bible Seminary and is all still intact.

In the shot below the large building at the bottom of the frame is the pre-extension Munsang College and the sort-of-pinkish building centre screen is a nameless residential block that still sits on the end of Dumbarton Road where it joins Junction Road.

We'll finish with this view across the tarmac of the runway towards the old terminal building.

Yellowthread Street (TV Series) - Bruce Payne (1990) - Dumbarton Road, Kowloon Tong

Back to Episode 3 - Key Witness - for this post. A businessman has tried to fake his own death because the Triads are after him and Marenta (Robert Taylor) goes to his home to speak with his wife about his whereabouts.

The place he goes to is just off La Salle Road in Kowloon Tong as we can see from the following screencaps. Check out the plane doing its turn into Kai Tak in the top picture.

Sadly, he doesn't go into the rather elegant looking place on the opposite side of the road, but instead pulls in to Dumbarton Road (the west part on the west side of Kowloon Tsai Park). The plot he goes into has actually been completely rebuilt - a very common occurrence in Kowloon Tong because the plots of land are relatively huge - so we will have to make do with a picture of a much more modern building that now sits there called La Salle Court (the shiny one left of centre)

Far more interesting, in my humble opinion, is the building we see in the top two frames. By some sort of bizarre luck, this place is still around and so are its nice elegant iron gates.

It's called Hyde Park Villa and is probably an original building the 1950's (occupation date says 1957). It's very similar to the style of property we also can see over at nearby Yau Yat Tsuen which was developed in the 1950's. Very stylish I think, and nice to see that it hasn't changed for the past 25 years or so.