Park Plaza 605

Park Plaza 605

CONQUEST...was his name! DANGER...was his game!

NR 1953 · 75 min · ★ 4.7 · Drama, Crime, Comedy

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.

Directed by Bernard Knowles · Written by Bertram Ostrer

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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
Edwin Richfield Mr. Reynolds
Michael Balfour Ted Birston

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