Park Plaza 605
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox film/short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". Park Plaza 605 (U.S. title: Norman Conquest) is a 1953 British second feature ('B')[1] crime film directed by Bernard Knowles and starring Tom Conway, Eva Bartok, and Joy Shelton.[2][3] It was written by Bertram Oster, Albert Fennell, Knowles and Clifford Witting based on the 1950 novel Dare-Devil Conquest by Edwy Searles Brookes (as Berkeley Gray).[4]
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
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- 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
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "An Involved and indifferently made thriller; the actors give the impression that they have all been there before."[5]
Radio Times called Park Plaza 605 a "fair British B-feature."[6]
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Indifferent thriller with tired performances."[7]
References
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External links
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- 1953 films
- 1953 crime films
- Films directed by Bernard Knowles
- British crime films
- British black-and-white films
- Films based on British novels
- Films based on mystery novels
- 1950s English-language films
- 1950s British films
- Films scored by Philip Green
- English-language crime films