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Park Plaza 605(1953)
Status: Released
Date: 1953-09-11
43%
10 Votes
Time: 1h 15m
CONQUEST...was his name! DANGER...was his game!
Overview:
Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies:
B & A Productions
Movie: Park Plaza 605
Top 10 Billed Cast
Tom Conway
Norman Conquest
Eva Bartok
Nadina Rodin
Joy Shelton
Pixie Everard
Sidney James
Supt. Williams (as Sidney James)
Richard Wattis
Theodore Feather
Carl Jaffe
Boris Roff
Frederick Schiller
Ivan Burgin
Robert Adair
Baron Von Henschel
Anton Diffring
Gregor
Ian Fleming
Colonel Santling
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Overview
Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.
Release Date
1953-09-11
Average
4.3
Rating:
2.1 startsTagline
CONQUEST...was his name! DANGER...was his game!
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