Ronald Neame — Director (20)
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The Chalk Garden (1964)
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Ronald Neame actor: Deborah Kerr / Hayley Mills …
other title: Il giardino di gesso / Das Haus im Kreidegarten …
The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk Garden – a stately household drama set on the cliffs of the English south coast. Edith Evans plays a matriarchal grandmother who, in raising her granddaughter, has neglected her other love – a barren chalk garden. Mayhem ensues as Laurel's behavior frightens away a succession of governesses until an enigmatic one is hired in spite of her mysterious references. She skillfully sets about tending to the girl's reckless emotions and the pitifully failed garden.
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The Card (1952)
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Ronald Neame actor: Alec Guinness / Glynis Johns …
other title: Asso pigliatutto / El personaje …
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.
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I Could Go on Singing (1963)
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Ronald Neame actor: Judy Garland / Dirk Bogarde …
other title: Ombre sul palcoscenico / Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten …
Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.
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The Seventh Sin (1957)
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Ronald Neame actor: Eleanor Parker / Bill Travers …
other title: Il settimo peccato / Hongkong war ihr Schicksal …
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with a married man. Her husband discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village or face the scandal of a very public divorce.
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Foreign Body (1986)
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Ronald Neame actor: Victor Banerjee / Warren Mitchell …
other title: R.A.M.S. / Un médico al servicio de las damas …
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
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Meteor (1979)
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Ronald Neame actor: Sean Connery / Natalie Wood …
other title: Meteoro
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible catastrophe that will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor, NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules," but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR, which has also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
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Tunes of Glory (1960)
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Ronald Neame actor: Alec Guinness / John Mills …
other title: Whisky e gloria / Uma Vez, Um Herói …
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
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The Odessa File (1974)
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Ronald Neame actor: Jon Voight / Maximilian Schell …
other title: Dossier Odessa / Odessa karoteket …
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.
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The Man Who Never Was (1956)
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Ronald Neame actor: Clifton Webb / Gloria Grahame …
other title: L'uomo che non è mai esistito / O Homem Que Nunca Existiu …
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
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Prudence and the Pill (1968)
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Fielder Cook / Ronald Neame actor: Deborah Kerr / David Niven …
other title: Prudenza e la pillola / Sarilhos Conjugais …
Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband Gerald, or all of the above?
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Hopscotch (1980)
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Ronald Neame actor: Walter Matthau / Glenda Jackson …
other title: Due sotto il divano / Den vilde flugt …
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
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The Horse's Mouth (1958)
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Ronald Neame actor: Alec Guinness / Kay Walsh …
other title: La bocca della verità / Des Pudels Kern …
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.
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Gambit (1966)
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Ronald Neame actor: Shirley MacLaine / Michael Caine …
other title: Gambit - Grande furto al Semiramis / Pas på hovedet …
Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest man, Mr. Shahbandar. With the help of exotic showgirl Nicole Chang, he concocts the perfect scheme for how the robbery should go and lays it out point by point. However, when the team tries to execute the plan, perfection and reality don't quite match up, and Harry's vision begins to unravel in this twisty tale of a heist gone wrong.
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The Million Pound Note (1954)
The Million Pound Note
Ronald Neame actor: Gregory Peck / Ronald Squire …
other title: Il forestiero / Sein größter Bluff …
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.