The Seventh Sin - Eleanor Parker (1957) - Connaught Road, Central

It's a bit blurry, but there is a scene whereby Carol and Walter head to the docks in a car in order to catch the boat to their rural destination. The scene is a mix of on-location footage that doesn't show the actors faces, and then a face shot (of Eleanor Parker, as she turns to camera) using a back projection of the same footage. The location itself was next to the pier where the Alexander Grantham Fireboat was based. I believe this was at the Government pier on the waterfront where Wing Wo Street meets Connaught Road.

These first two images show the Govt pier and the fireboat moored there

The car stops just past the Govt pier and "Carol" walks to the waterfront.
Of course, this was a stand-in for Eleanor Parker, who wasn't in HK.

This next shot uses back projection as Eleanor Parker turns to camera.

Back to the stand-in as Carol walks to board the boat

Following the boarding of their transport, the next bit of footage shows the boat as it pulls away from the waterfront. This is still the area between the old Govt pier (behind camera) and the longer "Custodian Wharf" that can be seen in the background. This was once the Osaka Shosen Kaisha pier but, I believe, was taken into possession by the HK Govt following the defeat of Japan in WW2.    

We finish with a final shot of Carol (Eleanor Parker) on board the boat transport as she ponders her life. Again, Parker wasn't in Hong Kong and this was a back projected studio scene. The big building behind Parker's head was the Central Fire Station. 

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.

Visa to Canton - Richard Basehart (1960) - Central Fire Station, Connaught Road

For the third and final view from this same camera position, the camera has now rotated once again to the right and is now looking east along Connaught Road Central. In the distance on the left, at the end of block, is the old G.P.O. The closer building, centre frame on the opposite side of the road, is the old Central Fire Station. This was knocked down in 1982 to make way for the current Hang Seng HQ building.

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.

That Man Bolt - Fred Williamson (1973) - Central Waterfront

Here's another great shot from the film.

Hang on...wait a sec...oh no ....arghh! They've done it again!

I'm beginning to think I'm living in a parallel universe. Here's the correct view after flipping horizontally.

This view is quite good because it shows us where the angled Blake Pier was in relation to the Connaught Centre (still with scaffolding at the top), as well as the pale low-rise former Central Fire Station (now replaced by the Hang Seng HQ) with the vehicular ferry piers in front of it.

Flatfoot in Hong Kong - Bud Spencer (1975) - Central Vehicular Ferry Pier, Hong Kong

Barella (Al Lettieri) tries to fake out Rizzo by pretending to get on the cross harbour ferry, but Rizzo anticipates his trick and waits on the pier for Barella to appear after the ferry has gone. This scene was shot at the vehicular ferry pier in Central.

The pier was situated in front of the old Central Fire station next to Jubilee Street (that's the old fire station poking up at the top of the pier in the lower shot) - basically directly next to where the One IFC tower now stands (immediately to its north). The pier was demolished in 1994 for the IFC reclamation. Gwulo also has information here.