Five Golden Dragons - Bob Cummings (1967) - Jordan Road Vehicular Ferry, Kowloon

Lots of nice nostalgic footage of the old vehicular ferry terminal and surrounding area courtesy of this film as we follow a car from Kowloon side to Hong Kong.

This large open area (above) in front of the ferry terminal was also used as a bus terminus and has remained largely undeveloped even now. It now has the extension of Jordan Road running across it into West Kowloon and there is now a light bus terminus in front of the Ferry Point Estate. You can just see the corner of the Man Wah Building top left.

Entrance ramp for vehicles

The bottom picture helps us to see when this film was made because it shows one of the buildings of the Ferry Point Estate under construction. The one under construction is the Man King Building - completed in 1967. The one behind it is the Man Fai Building completed in 1966. Given that they have only just started building the Man King building and the time it takes to build these things it would seem likely that this film was made either late '66 or early '67 (though I reckon 66 more likely).

Bloodsport - Jean Claude Van Damme (1987) - Central Ferry Pier, Hong Kong

Brief scene in the film when the hero's love interest tries to get him to spill the beans on the Kumite. Look closely and you will see the hazy distant shape of what looks to be Ocean Terminal when it still had signage on top. We're sandwiched between two ferry piers at this spot, behind Leah Ayres you can see the old HK-side Star Ferry pier, but look back behind JCVD and you will see the old vehicular ferry pier. I initially thought this may have been just along the waterfront, but the angles of the buildings at the back are not quite right, and after a bit of digging around I found a map from 1990 which shows that Blake Pier was still around at this time. So I will stick my neck out and say this scene was filmed from Blake Pier, corrections welcome.

Sadly, both of these piers are no more. The vehicular ferry was closed in 1994 and was consumed by harbour reclamation on which the IFC complex now sits on top of. Although you can still see a few of the old car ferries being used for Bauhinia harbour cruises. The Star Ferry pier went much more recently (circa 2006/7 - around the same time I moved out here) in a flurry of protest and demonstrations and the area was quickly absorbed into the most recent round of Central waterfront reclamation that is, quite literally, a unnecessary waste of space...*sigh*

Soldier of Fortune - Clark Gable (1955) - Jordan Road Vehicular Ferry Pier

Also known as Jordan Road Ferry Pier because it was located at the westernmost end of Jordan Road in Kwun Chung - when it was still part of the waterfront (obviously...).

Of course, the ferry pier became a victim of the "Kowloon West" mass reclamation and was demolished in 1996. The West Kowloon reclamation has put paid to the aforementioned waterfront.

Soldier of Fortune was filmed in 1955, a few years before the Ferry Point Estate was constructed just to the immediate north of the ferry pier.