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Smuggler’s Island – Em busca da «força vital de Macau» – in Portuguese

Posted: November 1st, 2023 | 2 Comments »

My new column for November’s issue of Paragrafo (#85), the literary and arts monthly supplement to Macao’s Ponto Final newspaper. It’s on the 1951 B-movie Smuggler’s Island and what it tells us about post-war Macao…. I’ll have an English version at some point so fear not non-Portuguese readers….

Click here to read…

You can also pick up Paragrafo and Ponto Final at the Livraria Portuguesa bookstore in Macao

2 Comments on “Smuggler’s Island – Em busca da «força vital de Macau» – in Portuguese”

  1. 1 Phil said at 11:08 am on November 1st, 2023:

    I don’t recall any Macau footage in the film but they definitely used library footage shot in and around Aberdeen Harbour in Hong Kong.
    Phil

  2. 2 Paul French said at 6:35 pm on November 1st, 2023:

    I think there’s a few shots of the Porto Exterior and some junks – it’s footage shot by the studio at some point and reused in a number of movies I believe.

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