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Flight to Hong Kong – Macau Closer (August 2025)

Posted: September 23rd, 2025 | No Comments »

My latest column for Macau Closer magazine on representations of the place in popular culture – this issue the 1956 movie Flight to Hong Kong (here on Youtube) which is full of post war fears of global crime syndicates and tropes about Macao’s oh so sinful ways, but does feature the cool Mama Lin’s nightclub/casino and the antihero gangster has a cool hilltop art-deco home….click here to read…



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