Park Plaza 605

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]

Park Plaza 605
U.S. theatrical poster
Directed byBernard Knowles
Written by
  • Bertram Ostrer
  • Albert Fennell
  • Bernard Knowles
  • Clifford Witting (treatment)
Based onnovel Dare-Devil Conquest by Berkeley Gray
Produced by
  • Albert Fennell
  • Bertram Ostrer
Starring
CinematographyEric Cross
Edited byClifford Boote (as Cifford Boot)
Music byPhilip Green
Production
company
B & A Productions (as B & A Productions Limited)
Distributed byEros Films
Release date
  • December 1953 (1953-12) (UK)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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

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
  1. Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. "Park Plaza 605". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  3. bkoganbing (11 September 1953). "Norman Conquest (1953)". IMDb.
  4. "Park Plaza 605". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012.
  5. "Park Plaza 605". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 21 (240): 11. 1 January 1954 – via ProQuest.
  6. Allen Eyles. "Park Plaza 605". RadioTimes.
  7. Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 359. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.


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