Movies directed by Ronald Neame

The Card (1952)

85 mins     Comedy      

Maybe it's me but you watch "The Card" and you ask yourself why can't they make movies like that anymore. I don't mean black & white movies but comedies where the amusement comes from the characters and the way the story deve...

The Million Pound Note (1954)

90 mins     Comedy, Romance      

Based upon the Mark Twain short story about two eccentric brothers living in Edwardian London who give a stranger a million pound bank note to settle a bet, "The Million Pound Note" is a fun movie starring Gregory Peck in the...

Tunes of Glory (1960)

107 mins     Drama, Romance      

"Tunes of Glory" is one of those movies which takes something incredibly simple and makes it absolutely fascinating. That something simple is the situation presented to us with Barrow trying to drum an undisciplined bunch of ...

Gambit (1966)

109 mins     Comedy, Crime      

To be honest I have never been one who is crazy about Michael Caine, there is no doubt that he starred in some great movies but sometimes I felt they were overrated. Fortunately "Gambit" is not one of them as not only does it...

Scrooge (1970)

113 mins     Drama, Fantasy, Musical      

I often wonder whether Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" is the most adapted novel in the history of cinema. Over the years there have been classic versions, comedy versions, muppet versions, adaptions into the modern wor...

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

117 mins     Action , Adventure , Disaster, Drama, Thriller      

Despite various remakes and different versions of Paul Gallico's novel the 1972 disaster movie "The Poseidon Adventure" starring Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine remains the best. Although saying that it is also a very stereo...

The Odessa File (1974)

130 mins     Drama, Thriller      

Watching "The Odessa File" now makes you realise one thing how poor modern cinema has become when it comes to the thriller genre. Here is a movie which in fairness whilst having an interesting storyline built around real elem...