A Cause to Kill - Ivy Ling Po (1969) - Middle Road Carpark, Tsim Sha Tsui

Hsin Li arranges for a taxi driver to pick up her unclaimed briefcase on her behalf and she sits in his taxi waiting for him to return. The taxi was parked on the carpark located on what is now the site of the Sheraton Hotel. This film was shot just a few years before the site was redeveloped into the hotel in the early 70s.

In the background of the lower image you can see the former Ambassador Hotel on the left (now a mixed use block called "26 Nathan Road") and on the right the still-extant Far East Mansions. The road on the left hand side is, of course, Nathan Road.

Heisser Hafen Hongkong - Horst Frank (1962) - Far East Mansion, Middle Road

Another pandemic find that never made the blog is this image from Heisser Hafen Hongkong. It shows a shop facade decorated like a Chinese temple and the misleading name of Plaza House had me scratching my head for where it could be. Luckily, regular Gwulo'er Moddsey was able to identify this location courtesy of his huge catalogue of old Hong Kong photos and he told me this was a tailor business located on the ground floor of Far East Mansions on Middle Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. It's a while since I watched this film but I think it was supposed to be the business run by the film's antagonist, Marek (Horst Frank).

L'Inconnue de Hong Kong - Dalida (1963) - Middle Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

In fact this view is from Salisbury Road looking over the (then) empty plot now occupied by the Sheraton (built ten years later in 1973). The buildings you can see are the Ambassador Hotel with its recognisable motif on the external wall. The hotel has since gone and been replaced by an office block called Oterprise Square. Next to it is Far East Mansion (built 1959) one of the old blocks still surviving today and looking much the same. Of course, the building far left in the top photo is the corner of The Peninsula Hotel.