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Ronald Neame - filmography


  • Hopscotch on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Walter Matthau,  Glenda Jackson,  Sam Waterston
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 622 members
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  • Meteor (1979)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Henry Fonda,  Natalie Wood
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 312 members
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  • The Odessa File on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Maria Schell,  Derek Jacobi,  Jon Voight
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,581 member
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  • The Poseidon Adventure on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Carol Lynley,  Eric Shea,  Jack Albertson
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,658 members
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  • Scrooge on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Kenneth More,  Edith Evans,  Michael Medwin
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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 »
    4 stars out of 5 74% from 1,060 member
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  • Scrooge - Blu-ray (1970)
    Starring: Kenneth More,  Edith Evans,  Michael Medwin
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 52 members
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  • Gambit on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Maurice Ma,  Richard Angarola,  Herbert Lom
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 308 members
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  • I Could Go On Singing (1963)
    Starring: Judy Garland,  Dirk Bogarde,  Jack Klugman
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% 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: Certificate: PG
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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 »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 522 members
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  • The Horse's Mouth on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Alec Guinness,  Kay Walsh,  Renee Houston
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 301 members
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  • Windom's Way - (1957)
    Starring: Michael Hordern,  Kurt Siegenberg,  Mary Ure
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 5 members
    Not available for rental
  • The Million Pound Note on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  Ronald Squire,  Joyce Grenfell
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 429 members
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  • The Card (1952)
    Starring: Glynis Johns,  Edward Chapman,  Alec Guinness
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 62 members
    Not available for rental
  • Great Expectations on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Anthony Wager,  Torin Thatcher,  Bernard Miles
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 5,615 members
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  • This Happy Breed - Blu-ray (1944)
    Starring: Kay Walsh,  Celia Johnson,  John Mills
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4 members
    Not available for rental
  • This Happy Breed (1944)
    Starring: Kay Walsh,  Celia Johnson,  John Mills
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 513 members
    Not available for rental

Ronald Neame facts

5 most recent films

Hopscotch - 3.5 stars
Meteor - 3.0 stars
The Odessa File - 3.5 stars
The Poseidon Adventure - 3.0 stars
Scrooge - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - 4.0 stars
Tunes of Glory - 4.0 stars
Great Expectations - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Scrooge - 4.0 stars
Great Expectations - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Windom's Way - - 2.0 stars
I Could Go On Singing - 3.5 stars
The Man Who Never Was - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
This Happy Breed - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Meteor - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alec Guinness - 9 times - show films
John Mills - 9 times - show films
Valerie Hobson - 6 times - show films
Kay Walsh - 5 times - show films
Laurence Naismith - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Lean - 6 times - show films
Robert Hamer - 1 times - show films
Anthony Asquith - 1 times - show films
Ralph Thomas - 1 times - show films