Ronald Neame
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Card, The (1952)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson
- Robust comedy with Alec Guinness playing an enthusiastic young man of lower–class origins who takes every opportunity to advance his station,…
- Million Pound Note, The (1953)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Gregory Peck, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell…
- A fairly neat adaptation of Mark Twain's satirical fable about a pair of rich brothers who bet over whether a man can live on a million pounds,…
- Man Who Never Was, The (1956)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng…
- Riveting adaptation of Ewen Montagu's book about the true story of a British Navy commander's involvement in a tricky scheme to fool the Nazis, by…
- Windom's Way (1957)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Robert Flemyng…
- Malayan–set drama with Finch as a doctor – who along with his estranged wife – finds himself caught up in political turmoil that…
- Horse's Mouth, The (1958)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston
- This impressively subtle portrait of a tortured artist stars Alec Guinness as a deteriorating painter whose pursuit of creative perfection has him on…
- Tunes of Glory (1960)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price…
- Two colonels of a Scottish regiment – one convivial, one disciplinarian – face off in a battle of wills in this drama of peacetime…
- I Could Go on Singing (1963)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman…
- A successful singer visits her estranged son while on tour in England. Teary melodrama was Garland's last film and featured arguably her best acting.
- Chalk Garden, The (1964)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills…
- British melodrama based on the eccentric stage play by Enid Bagnold, with Hayley Mills playing a rebellious teenager who meets her match in governess…
- Gambit (1966)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Michael Caine
- Charming, clever heist flick about a Cockney conman and a kooky showgirl whose brilliantly elaborate plan to steal an invaluable sculpture backfires…
- Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (1968)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin…
- Schoolteacher at a private girls school, Maggie Smith grooms and instructs her pupils with a passionate sense of vocation, unfortunately making more…
- Scrooge (1970)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Dame Edith Evans…
- Enchanting musical version of Charles Dickens' tale of the old miser who is taken through Christmas past, present and future to realise his selfish…
- Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Leslie Nielsen, Gene Hackman, Shelley Winters…
- One of the better 70s disaster movies has an ocean–liner 'turned turtle' and the survivors trying to find a way out. Often unintentionally…
- Odessa File, The (1974)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell…
- Jon Voight plays a German journalist on the trail of Nazi war criminals. From Frederic Forsyth's bestseller.
- Meteor (1979)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden…
- Clumsy disaster movie with the USA and the USSR forming an unlikely alliance during the Cold War to prevent a giant asteroid from destroying the…
- Hopscotch (1980)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston…
- Walter Matthau carries this cat–and–mouse comedy as a demoted CIA operative who enjoys being a target after publishing a spiteful memoir…