Films with: Neame, Ronald

British noir

They met in the dark: discharged for treason, a former Navy commander sets out to expose the espionage ring that destroyed his career. The october man: after a traumatic brain injury, a young engineer tries to repair his life. But his recovery is thwarted when a woman is found strangled and he becomes the prime suspect. Snowbound: a British Army vet exposes a plot by ex-Nazis to reclaim a stash of gold bullion hidden at a ski resort. The golden salamander: a British archaeologist finds himself caught between a gang of North African gun-runners and the woman he loves. The assassin: a private eye arrives in Venice in search of a fugitive, but soon discovers that the city's winding waterways hold dark secrets.

DVD 11081

Gambit

Michael Caine rolls the dice but Shirley MacLaine could end up the big loser in this witty suspense yarn that finds the duo attempting to steal a priceless art treasure. Their foolproof scheme backfires and they must pull out all the stops in order to come out on top.

DVD 12184

Great expectations

In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.

DVD 233

Hopscotch

One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate--because he's having to much fun!

DVD 3212

Horse's mouth

Gulley Jimson, an ill-behaved artist is in search for a perfect canvas. He is determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.

DVD 1569

Meteor

Science fiction drama about a five-mile meteor on a collision course with the earth. A scientist is summoned to Washington by NASA and is informed that a huge meteor will smash into earth in six days. There is one slim chance to divert disaster, but it means cooperation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and neither side trusts the other.

DVD 2376

Noel Coward's Blithe spirit

A cynical, self-absorbed novelist sets out to expose a fake medium and ends up with the amorous ghost of his first wife on his hands.

DVD 953

Odessa file

In 1963, in Hamburg, Germany, a diary falls into the hands of freelance newspaperman Peter Miller. The diary documents the unspeakable crimes perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann, commandant of the notorious wartime deathcamp at Riga, Latvia. Miller's personal manhunt to track down Roschmann leads him into the very heart of ODESSA, a powerful secret organization formed by the SS to protect and re-establish its fugitive members throughout the world.

DVD 934

Oliver Twist

After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end. Includes original theatrical trailer.

DVD 339

Poseidon adventure

DVD 526

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

A teacher in a 1930's Scottish girls' school captivates, inspires and encourages independent thinking in her students with her free-thinking attitude.

DVD 3022

Tunes of glory

Jock Sinclair is a whiskey-drinking, by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Sinclair is a lifetime military man. He expects loyalty and respect from his men. But when Basil Barrow, an educated, by-the-book scion from a traditional military family enters the scene as Sinclair's replacement, the two men become locked in a fierce battle for control of the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men.

DVD 3378