Asia-Pol Secret Service - Wang Yu (1966) - Des Voeux Road Central

This time Wang Yu is driving back the other way along Des Voeux Road Central. The old Hang Seng Building can be seen left of screen, and if you look carefully you can see one of the red doors of the old Central Fire Station Building. For those that hadn't realised, the Hang Seng Building is still around, albeit now renamed the Nexxus Building. The old fire station was demolished an replaced by Hang Seng's new HQ building.

Les Nuits Rouges du Bourreau de Jade - Carrie Ng (2010) - Nexxus Building, Central

After disembarking from the helicopter, Catherine heads down to Immigration with her doctored passport and manages to get clear just before the Interpol notice for her arrest arrives. I'm not sure where the immigration scenes were shot but the building she exits at the ground level is the Nexxus Building in Central. The doors in the image below are the ones that face onto Connaught Road.

Jason King (TV Series) - Peter Wyngarde (1972) - Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong

A couple of building pictures in this post. The first shows the Wing On House in the middle with the Nexxus Building on the right and Chinachem Tower on the left. The lower building at the lower right is the old Central Fire Station - replaced by the Hang Seng HQ. The angle of the picture suggests the camera was position on or near the Central vehicular ferry pier at the time.Wing On House is the youngest of these buildings dating from 1967.

Although used at another part of the show, the next bit of stock footage shows the area not far to the right of the one above. It shows the China Insurance Group Building, which looks as though it is a mirror image of the Wing On House. Both buildings are very similar in style and were both completed in the same year. The car park in the distance is the Rumsey Street Multi-Storey carpark (built 1970) - also still around - but the area behind it now has the Shun Tak Centre.

Ein Sarg aus Hong Kong - Heinz Drache (1964) - Various Harbour views

I have a bunch of unidentified location still pending for this film (see my help page) so will finish this one for the time being with a variety of clips in and around the harbour area. If you look closely there are some familiar buildings to be found. For example in the top two pictures you can just make out the Marine Dept Building that was later demolished to make way for what was Vicwood Plaza but is now called Infinitus Plaza. It's on the far left in the lower picture.

In these next pictures we can see a tall building next to the old Central Fire Station. The building was originally the Hang Seng Building (which we saw the front of not so long ago) but was later renamed to the Nexxus Building, and is still around albeit in a vastly updated facade. The fire station was replaced a long time ago and strangely enough is now the site for the newer version of the Hang Seng HQ. Note in front of the fire station is the old vehicular ferry pier.

L'Inconnue de Hong Kong - Dalida (1963) - Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong

A nice street scene here as the other central actress (Tania Béryl) goes for a walkabout in Central. The place is Des Voeux Road at the junction with Queen Victoria Street and the building she goes into is now called the Nexxus Building. In 1962 it was constructed as the Hang Seng Building but changed names later on (I'm not sure when, but perhaps when the bank constructed and moved into its current HQ next door?).

Look carefully at picture 3 and you can just see the roof edge of the Central Fire Station on the left hand side. That was the site Hang Seng took over for their new HQ.