Park Plaza 605
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Directed by | Bernard Knowles |
Written by |
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Based on | novel Dare-Devil Conquest by Berkeley Gray |
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Cinematography | Eric Cross |
Edited by | Clifford Boote (as Cifford Boot) |
Music by | Philip Green |
Production company | B & A Productions (as B & A Productions Limited) |
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Release date | December 1953 (UK) |
Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Park Plaza 605, released as Norman Conquest in the United States, is a 1953 British crime film. Made as a B movie, it stars Tom Conway, Eva Bartok, and Joy Shelton, and also features Sid James and Richard Wattis.[1] It is based on the Norman Conquest series of novels by Berkeley Gray.[2]
Plot[]
Private investigator Norman Conquest stumbles across a cryptic message being sent by carrier pigeon and his curiosity leads him to room 605 of the Park Plaza Hotel, where he meets a mysterious foreign blonde woman, and finds himself embroiled in a murder investigation with himself as the prime suspect.
Cast[]
- Tom Conway - Norman Conquest
- Eva Bartok - Nadina Rodin
- Joy Shelton - Pixie Everard
- Sid James (as "Sidney James") - Superintendent Bill Williams
- Richard Wattis - Theodore Feather
- Carl Jaffe - Boris Roff
- Frederick Schiller - Ivan Burgin
- Robert Adair - Baron von Henschel
- Anton Diffring - Gregor
- Ian Fleming - Colonel Santling
- Edwin Richfield - Mr Reynolds
- Michael Balfour - Ted Birston
- Martin Boddey - Stumpy
- Terence Alexander - Hotel Manager
- Victor Platt - Taxi Driver
- Leon Davey - Mandeville Livingstone
- Richard Marner - Barkov
- Tony Hilton - Lift attendant
- Alan Rolfe - Police inspector
- Derek Prentice - Hall porter
- Frank Sieman - Captain Kramer
- Brian Moorehead - First mate
- Billie Hill - Mrs Pottle
- Anthony Woodruff - Clerk
Critical reception[]
Radio Times called Park Plaza 605 a "fair British B-feature."[3]
References[]
- ^ bkoganbing (11 September 1953). "Norman Conquest (1953)". IMDb.
- ^ "Park Plaza 605". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012.
- ^ Allen Eyles. "Park Plaza 605". RadioTimes.
External links[]
Categories:
- English-language films
- 1953 films
- 1953 crime films
- British films
- Films directed by Bernard Knowles
- British crime films
- British black-and-white films
- Films based on British novels
- Films based on mystery novels
- Lippert Pictures films
- 1950s British film stubs
- 1950s crime film stubs