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Park Plaza 605
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Wikipedia article
'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. It is based on the 'Norman Conquest' series of novels by Berkeley Gray.
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 as Norman Conquest
* Eva Bartok as Nadina Rodin
* Joy Shelton as Pixie Everard
* Sid James as Superintendent Bill Williams
* Richard Wattis as Theodore Feather
* Carl Jaffe as Boris Roff
* Frederick Schiller as Ivan Burgin
* Robert Adair as Baron von Henschel
* Anton Diffring as Gregor
* Ian Fleming as Colonel Santling
* Edwin Richfield as Mr Reynolds
* Michael Balfour as Ted Birston
* Martin Boddey as Stumpy
* Terence Alexander as Hotel Manager
* Victor Platt as Taxi Driver
* Leon Davey as Mandeville Livingstone
* Richard Marner as Barkov
* Tony Hilton as Lift attendant
* Alan Rolfe as Police inspector
* Derek Prentice as Hall porter
* Frank Sieman as Captain Kramer
* Brian Moorehead as First mate
* Billie Hill as Mrs Pottle
* Anthony Woodruff as Clerk
Critical reception
'Radio Times' called 'Park Plaza 605' a "fair British B-feature."
References
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