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7.1

♡ 22

80%

78%

Adventure

central intelligence agency (cia)

Ronald Neame Director

Sam Waterston as Cutter

Glenda Jackson as Isobel

Joe Dorsey as Security Guard

George Baker as Westlake

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.

Escape from Zahrain

1962

6.0

♡ 6

54%

Ronald Neame Director

Leonard Strong as Ambulance Driver

James Mason as Johnson

Madlyn Rhue as Laila

Anthony Caruso as Tahar

Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot pursuit. All the performances are magnificent: Sal Mineo showing his acting talents, Jack Warden in a wiseguy performance as an employee of Zahrain oil who was involved in embezzlement, Anthony Caruso as a slimy psychotic and the underrated Madlyn Rhue as a nurse who becomes emotionally involved in the proceedings.

The Odessa File

1974

7.0

♡ 16

69%

64%

assassin

Ronald Neame Director

Peter Jeffrey as David Porath

Maximilian Schell as Eduard Roschmann

Jon Voight as Peter Miller

Mary Tamm as Sigi

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.

The Chalk Garden

1964

grandparent grandchild relationship

7.2

♡ 8

71%

judge

Mystery

problem child

Ronald Neame Director

Hayley Mills as Laurel

John Mills as Maitland

Deborah Kerr as Miss Madrigal

Edith Evans as Mrs. St. Maugham

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.

Windom's Way

1957

Italian

5.9

♡ 3

Ronald Neame Director

Peter Finch as Alec Windom

Natasha Parry as Anna Vidal

Marne Maitland as Commissioner Belhedron

John Cairney as Jan Vidal

A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decisions.

The Promoter

1952

7.0

♡ 4

64%

Ronald Neame Director

Valerie Hobson as Countess of Chell

Kenneth More as Man at ball

Petula Clark as Nellie Cotterill

Glynis Johns as Ruth Earp

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.

The Man Who Never Was

1956

7.4

♡ 9

88%

Ronald Neame Director

Geoffrey Keen as Gen. Nye

Carl Duering as German Agent

Gloria Grahame as Lucy Sherwood

Brian Oulton as Wills Officer

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.

Tunes of Glory

1960

7.5

♡ 5

70%

78%

bagpipes

Ronald Neame Director

Gordon Jackson as Capt. Jimmy Cairns, M.C.

Dennis Price as Major Charles Scott, M.C.

Susannah York as Morag Sinclair

John Harvey as Sergeant

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.

I Could Go on Singing

1963

parent child relationship

6.9

♡ 2

100%

singer

Ronald Neame Director

Aileen Lewis as Backstage Parent

Jack Klugman as George

Tony Robinson as Schoolboy

Brian Godfrey as Undetermined Secondary Role

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.

The Horse's Mouth

1958

6.9

♡ 6

89%

76%

Comedy

Ronald Neame Director

Michael Gough as Abel

Timothy Bateson as Clerk to Borough Surveyor

Ernest Thesiger as Hickson

Robert Coote as Sir William Beeder

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.

Scrooge

1970

7.5

♡ 9

74%

84%

Ronald Neame Director

Roy Kinnear as 2nd Gentleman of Charity

Dorian Healy as Child

Suzanne Neve as Isabel Fezziwig

Gordon Jackson as Tom - Friend of Harry's

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

Gambit

1966

7.0

♡ 14

100%

Ronald Neame Director

Than Wyenn as Airport Official

John Abbott as Emile

Michael Caine as Harry

Vic Tayback as Plainclothes Officer at TWA Counter

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.

Man with a Million

1954

6.8

♡ 3

Ronald Neame Director

Gregory Peck as Henry Adams

Brian Oulton as Lloyd

Lesley Scoble as Minor Role

Totti Truman Taylor as Singer

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.

The Poseidon Adventure

1972

husband wife relationship

7.1

♡ 41

81%

Ronald Neame Director

Arthur O'Connell as Chaplain

Fred Sadoff as Linarcos

Doug Bell as Ship's Officer on Dance Floor

Leslie Nielsen as The Captain

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

Meteor

1979