Tag: Ronald Neame

Meteor Script

Script by:Stanley Mann (Screenplay), Edmund H. North (Screenplay), Edmund H. North (Story)
Directed by:Ronald Neame
Year:1979
IMDb:tt0079550

Plot:After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which 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 fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
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Odessa File Script

Directed by:Ronald Neame
Year:1974
IMDb:tt0071935

Plot:After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually finds himself involved with the powerful organisation of former SS members—called ODESSA—as well as with the Israeli secret service. Miller probes deeper and eventually discovers a link between the SS-Captain, ODESSA and his own family.
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First Monday In October Script

Script by:Robert E. Lee (Screenplay), Robert E. Lee (Theatre Play), Jerome Lawrence (Theatre Play), Jerome Lawrence (Screenplay)
Directed by:Ronald Neame
Year:1981
IMDb:tt0082382

Plot:For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.
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Hopscotch Script

Script by:Brian Garfield (Screenplay), Bryan Forbes (Screenplay), Brian Garfield (Author)
Directed by:Ronald Neame
Year:1980
IMDb:tt0080889

Plot: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 Man Who Never Was Script

Script by:Ewen Montagu (Novel), Nigel Balchin (Screenplay)
Directed by:Ronald Neame
Year:1956
IMDb:tt0049471

Plot: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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The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Script

Script by:Paul Gallico (Novel), Wendell Mayes (Screenplay), Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay)
Directed by:Ronald Neame
Year:1972
IMDb:tt0069113

Plot:The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
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