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"Cary Grant lounges in Hollywood, weary of cinema's constant glamour. Soon, Her Majesty's Secret Service will break his malaise with a bizarre diplomatic mission. In Naples, Lucky Luciano fixes horse races and begins to lay the foundation for the global heroin trade. In Bologna, a bartender named Pierre searches for true love and his missing communist father." "It is 1954 - the height of the Cold War - and these three are on a thrilling path toward an intersection that will involve the nascent KGB, Joseph McCarthy, Frances Farmer, Parisian lowlifes, Marshal Tito, David Niven, James Bond, and a very special television set called the McGuffin Electric." A political thriller, a comic spy caper, a romance, and a piece of social satire, 54 is an adventure into the past and a commentary on our present. 1954, the height of the Cold War. In Hollywood memebers of Her Majesty's Secret service have a dangerous mission for the elegant Cary Grant. And in Bologna, Pierre Capponi, a lovelorn young barman, is about to embark on a painful odyssey in search of his missing father. Set in former Yugoslavia in the 1950s, this is a story of intrigue, spying and paranoia, centring on the hiring of Cary Grant to play the lead role in a Yugoslav propaganda film Intrigue, spying and paranoia, bizarre & cultly