Showing posts with label Grenville House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grenville House. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Unnamed Clearing next to the Peak Tram

I've kept this location separate because I can't quite figure out if it has a name, or is perhaps part of Chatham Path that runs in a rather higgledy piggledy manner between May Road and Barker Road. Anyway, this is seen during one of Loy's dream sequences when he is dreaming about chatting with his deceased father. The location is more or less directly opposite the tennis court of Po Garden, so it's also possible that this is an extension of the podium of Grenville House. I doubt Google will let me place a marker where I want it to (it keeps snapping back to May Road or Grenville House), so here is a GoogleEarth link just to be clear.

Saturday, September 16, 2023

The Big Game - Brendan Boone (1973) - Grenville House, Central

The last post for this film is Atanga's apartment in Hong Kong which is located in Grenville House. Completed in 1971, this place was almost shiny and new when the movie was filmed there. HK-related film aficionados will know that France Nuyen, seen here, was the original Suzie Wong from Broadway and started filming The World of Suzie Wong with William Holden before being unceremoniously sacked, along with the original director, by the executive producer, Ray Stark, when she became ill at the start of Hong Kong location filming in January 1960.

Monday, May 7, 2018

Supermen Against the Orient - Robert Malcolm (1973) - Midlevels, Central

Another view from the credits, this time hovering above the mid levels in front of Century Tower and Granville House - both situated right next to the peak tram track around May Road and both still around surprisingly. Look carefully and you can see the tram track going up the hillside in the middle of the top picture.

Saturday, May 30, 2015

The Man from Hong Kong - Wang Yu (1975) - Midlevels, Central

A camera view - probably taken from the previously mentioned Umbrella Seat area on Mount Austin Road - looking over towards Century Tower next to the Peak Tram rail track. We saw another angle of this very same area when we were looking at Shatter showing us a bit of Grenville House. Grenville House is the curved development to the left of Century Tower.


Sunday, April 12, 2015

Shatter - Stuart Whitman (1974) - View over Central from May Road, Mid-levels

A rather nice view from May Road where it passes over the Peak Tram railway. I can't recreate the same view today due to the additional tree growth, but in the film the tram passes right under the camera and there is only one place where this happens with the nearby Grenville House apartment complex in view and that is the section at the bottom of Tregunter Path.

Here are the caps - Grenville House is the balconied building on the right.


There's quite a lot to see in the top couple of snaps courtesy of the rather nice city view and I expect most people will be able to recognise buildings such as the Connaught Centre, Hilton Hotel, HSBC (previous version), Bank of China, Standard Chartered (previous), as well as what used to be on the site of the current Estoril Court and the older version of the Peak Tram station building (now called St John's Building - did it retain the name of its predecessor?).

Anyway, Autostitch has also rendered a fairly decent consolidation of these four pictures.


There is also a reverse view from the same spot showing the stone balustrade of the bridge over the track.