Bruce Lee: True Story - Ho Chung Tao (1976) - Palm Villa, Tai Tam

Our old friend Bill Lake pops up in the Enter the Dragon scene. He plays Bob Wall's character for a brief moment as the pair walk across the tennis court. In terms of the location, yes, it's the same place where Enter the Dragon was filmed and although this tennis court wasn't the main one used in that film, it was briefly seen in that movie. It's the upper tennis court that is being used (for reference, please see my old post here) and in a couple of the shots below you can see the steps that lead up to the single remaining doorway that led into the old garden area (now an American Club games court). For your information, it was on the other side of that doorway that the club had erected its metal plaque. You can also see the same tennis court in the top left of this screen grab.

Anyway, as you can see, even just 3 short years after Enter the Dragon the place had become quite overgrown.

Bill Lake as O'hara

The steps on the right lead up to the still-standing garden area

The wooden gazebo can be seen in the screen capture I linked to above

Addendum: A couple of years ago Bill Lake sent me a proof of one of the chapters of his book that described this scene as being shot at the former Eucliffe mansion in Repulse Bay. I did tell him that the time that it was, in fact, Palm Villa, but the passage was kept in for the final release of the book. Sadly, Bill passed away a few weeks ago and so this is something that will not be corrected but I thought I should set the record straight for anyone who happens on his book and finds the memories of this film conflicting with what I have posted here.

Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine - Jean-Paul Belmondo (1965) - Stanley Gap Road, Stanley

More Tai Tam Road action in the next scene, but actually the bed isn't on that road, it's on Stanley Gap Road instead, coming down the hill towards the hairpin bend where it meets Tai Tam Road and Stanley Village Road just above the aptly named Hair Pin Beach. Again, the bed must have been doing some fairly funky manoeuvres to get here.

Other than the addition of a painted roundabout to make the turn slightly less hair raising, I don't think this place has really changed much.

Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine - Jean-Paul Belmondo (1965) - Tai Tam Road, Stanley

After starting its perilous descent of Wanchai Gap Road (as seen in the last picture of the last post) the bed suddenly enters a space/time wormhole and appears on the long sloping driveway of a large mansion in Tai Tam called Longview. It then continues onto to Tai Tam Road at the bottom of the driveway.

This is a bit of a bonus for Bruce Lee fans because the lower screencap below shows a brief glimpse of the property opposite the driveway's entrance. What you can see is the terraced tennis courts of Palm Villa - made famous as the location for the tournament scenes in Enter the Dragon.

Driveway to Longview 

Palm Villa estate across the road

If you want to read my (perhaps overlong and a bit too enthusiastic) post on Palm Villa you can click here. Of course both Longview (whose driveway the bed just zipped down) and Palm Villa were part of the M.W Lo property portfolio.

In terms of what is visible in this film, it's a very brief moment but you can just about see the lowest tennis court at the bottom left behind the large tree. The more eagle-eyed of you may be able to make out the circular building poking out from the hedge at the right hand side. If you read the post I just linked to you'll find out it was an outside toilet and served as Ahna Capri's and Bruce Lee's (shared) dressing room during filming. The last time I was in that area, it was still there despite everything around it being redeveloped. The tennis courts are now the "Pacific View" development.