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Ronald Neame has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1980s.
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The First Great Train Robbery
1978
Thriller · Adventure

The Eiger Sanction
1975
Action · Adventure

The Sting
1973
Comedy · Crime

Airport
1970
Drama · Thriller

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
1978
Action · Adventure

Rooster Cogburn
1975
Adventure · Drama

Chisum
1970
Western

Time After Time
1979
Adventure · Drama

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Stella Stevens

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Dir. David Lean · With John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager

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.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston

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.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom

While holding a séance for skeptical novelist Charles Condomine, self-proclaimed 'spiritualist medium' Madame Arcati inadvertently summons the spirit of his deceased first wife Elvira, leading to an increasingly complex love triangle with Ruth, his current wife of five years.
Dir. David Lean · With Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond

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.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin
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?
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
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