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Ronald Neame
Filmography
Ronald Neame - filmography
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Hopscotch
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate: 
Miles Kendig is a veteran CIA agent who finds himself reduced to a desk job after the arrival of new boss Myerson. Refusing to take it lying down he disappears and begins to write his memoirs, threatening to lift the lid on the world's top intelligence agencies. He soon has both the CIA and the KGB ..read more »
 
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from 622 members
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Meteor
(1979)
Starring: Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Natalie Wood
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate: 
One of several all-star disaster movies spawned in the Seventies. When a meteor is discovered to be hurtling on a collision course with Earth, Paul Bradley (Sean Connery) is called in by NASA to help avert the disaster. They plan to either divert or destroy the lethal rock, but time begins to run ..read more »
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from 312 members
Currently unavailable
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The Odessa File
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Maria Schell, Derek Jacobi, Jon Voight
Director: Ronald Neame
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Germany, the early 1960s. Investigative journalist Peter Miller (Jon Voight) has obtained a diary detailing crimes committed by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann (Maximilian Schell) when he was a WWII concentration camp commandant. Miller sets out to bring Roschmann to justice, but encounters trouble ..read more »
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from 1,581 member
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The Poseidon Adventure
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Carol Lynley, Eric Shea, Jack Albertson
Director: Ronald Neame
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When a luxury liner is upturned by a tidal wave on New Year's Eve, ten survivors struggle to stay alive as they seek a means of escape. Resourceful man of the cloth Reverend Frank Scott (Gene Hackman) assumes responsibility for his fellow passengers, who include a pop singer, an elderly Jewish ..read more »
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from 4,658 members
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Scrooge
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Kenneth More, Edith Evans, Michael Medwin
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate: 
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A musical version of Dickens' famous novel. Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Albert Finney) is so mean-spirited that he resents giving his clerk Bob Cratchit (David Collings) the day off for Christmas. At night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late partner Jacob Marley (Alec Guinness), who warns ..read more »
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from 1,060 member
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Scrooge - Blu-ray
(1970)
Starring: Kenneth More, Edith Evans, Michael Medwin
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
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A musical version of Dickens' famous novel. Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Albert Finney) is so mean-spirited that he resents giving his clerk Bob Cratchit (David Collings) the day off for Christmas. At night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late partner Jacob Marley (Alec Guinness), who warns ..read more »
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from 52 members
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Gambit
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Maurice Ma, Richard Angarola, Herbert Lom
Director: Ronald Neame
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An English cat burglar (Michael Caine) teams up in Hong Kong with a Eurasian dancing girl (Shirley MacLaine) to steal a prize statue from a Middle Eastern multi-millionaire. However, the foolproof scheme proves to be open to cross and double-cross, as the thieving duo begin to wonder just how far ..read more »
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from 308 members
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I Could Go On Singing
(1963)
Starring: Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman
Director: Ronald Neame
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In Judy Garland's last screen appearance, she plays Jenny Bowman, a famous American singer who has come to London for a series of concerts. She visits her former lover, a doctor, on the pretext of a sore throat, but her real motive is to see the son they had together and whom she has never seen.
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from 23 members
Due for release on 3rd June 2013
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Tunes of Glory
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
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In Ronald Neame's Tunes of Glory, the incomparable Alec Guinness inhabits the role of Jock Sinclair - a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Sinclair is a lifetime military man, who expects respect and loyalty from his men. But when Basil ..read more »
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from 522 members
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The Horse's Mouth
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston
Director: Ronald Neame
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In Ronald Neame's film of Joyce Cary's classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himself into one of cinema's most indelible comic figures: the somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter in search of his artistic vision, Gulley Jimson. As the ill-behaved Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, he determines ..read more »
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from 301 members
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Windom's Way -
(1957)
Starring: Michael Hordern, Kurt Siegenberg, Mary Ure
Director: Ronald Neame
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Ronald Neame directs this tense 1950s drama about a marriage on the rocks. The brittle marriage of Alec Windom (Peter Finch) and his wife Lee (Mary Ure) is on the verge of breakdown. With Alec working in a remote Asian village as a doctor and Lee back home in England, the strain cannot continue. So ..read more »
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from 5 members
Not available for rental
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The Million Pound Note
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell
Director: Ronald Neame
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Gregory Peck plays a penniless American sailor lucky enough to be passing the house of two rich British men. They offer the sailor a loan in the form of a single banknote in the amount of one MILLION POUNDS. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to spend it, no one is able to make change, ..read more »
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from 429 members
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The Card
(1952)
Starring: Glynis Johns, Edward Chapman, Alec Guinness
Director: Ronald Neame
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The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release title. Impoverished young clerk Alec Guinness works his way up the financial ladder until he has become a successful and highly respected loan officer. Actually, Guinness is not as above-board as the ..read more »
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from 62 members
Not available for rental
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Great Expectations - Blu-ray
(1946)
Starring: Anthony Wager, Torin Thatcher, Bernard Miles
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this classic adaptation of Dickens's novel about a young orphan who develops 'great expectations' after a mysterious benefactor pledges to sponsor his transformation into a gentleman. Pip (Anthony Wager) is visiting the graves of his deceased parents when he finds himself ..read more »
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from 391 members
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Great Expectations
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Anthony Wager, Torin Thatcher, Bernard Miles
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this classic adaptation of Dickens's novel about a young orphan who develops 'great expectations' after a mysterious benefactor pledges to sponsor his transformation into a gentleman. Pip (Anthony Wager) is visiting the graves of his deceased parents when he finds himself ..read more »
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from 5,615 members
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This Happy Breed - Blu-ray
(1944)
Starring: Kay Walsh, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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An episodic tale of an average working class family in the interwar years. Narrated by Laurence Olivier and directed by David Lean, the story traces the melodrama caused by illicit affairs, family bereavement, the first ripples of women's liberation and political instability in the country during ..read more »
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from 4 members
Not available for rental
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This Happy Breed
(1944)
Starring: Kay Walsh, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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An episodic tale of an average working class family in the interwar years. Narrated by Laurence Olivier and directed by David Lean, the story traces the melodrama caused by illicit affairs, family bereavement, the first ripples of women's liberation and political instability in the country during ..read more »
71%
from 513 members
Not available for rental
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