Cinematography: Ronald Neame
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Ronald Neame. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
This Happy Breed
1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Lean
Cast Robert Newton · Celia Johnson · Stanley Holloway · John Mills
Plot Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort...
6.9
639 votes
6.9
639 votes
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
1942 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger
Cast Godfrey Tearle · Eric Portman · Hugh Williams · Bernard Miles
Plot During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft...
6.6
92 votes
6.6
92 votes
Blithe Spirit
1945 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Lean
Cast Rex Harrison · Constance Cummings · Kay Hammond · Margaret Rutherford
Plot To get background for a new book, author Charles and his second wife Ruth light-heartedly arrange for local mystic Madame Arcati to give a séance. The unfortunate result is that...
6.5
1K votes
6.5
1K votes
In Which We Serve
1942 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Lean · Noël Coward
Cast Noël Coward · John Mills · Bernard Miles · Celia Johnson
Plot Based on the true story of Lord Mountbatten's destroyer, In Which We Serve is one of the most memorable British films made during World War II. Unfolding in flashback as...
6.2
536 votes
6.2
536 votes
Major Barbara
1941 · Movie · 131 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gabriel Pascal · David Lean · Harold French
Cast Wendy Hiller · Rex Harrison · Robert Morley · Robert Newton
Plot Filmed in London in 1941, during the Blitz, Major Barbara emerged from a troubled production to become a major success for George Bernard Shaw and producer-director Gabriel Pascal. Pygmalion’s Wendy...
6.0
85 votes
6.0
85 votes
To Hell with Hitler
1940 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Marcel Varnel
Cast George Formby · Phyllis Calvert · Garry Marsh · Romney Brent
Plot Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukulele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British...
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Trouble Brewing
1939 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Kimmins
Cast George Formby · Googie Withers · Gus McNaughton · Garry Marsh
Plot George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.
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Let's Be Famous
1939 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Jimmy O'Dea · Betty Driver · Sonnie Hale · Patrick Barr
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Brief Ecstasy
1937 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Edmond T. Gréville
Cast Paul Lukas · Hugh Williams · Linden Travers · Marie Ney
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Penny Paradise
1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Edmund Gwenn · Betty Driver · Jimmy O'Dea · Ethel Coleridge
Plot A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive...
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Come on George!
1939 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Kimmins
Cast George Formby · Pat Kirkwood · Joss Ambler · Meriel Forbes
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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George King
Cast Tod Slaughter · Marjorie Taylor · Eric Portman · Graham Soutten
Plot The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number". Then there is an interview with a...
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Cafe Colette
1937 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Paul Cavanagh · Greta Nissen · Sally Gray · Bruce Seton
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Keep Fit
1937 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Kimmins
Cast George Formby · Kay Walsh · Guy Middleton · Gus McNaughton
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The Four Just Men
1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Hugh Sinclair · Griffith Jones · Francis L. Sullivan · Frank Lawton
Plot The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to...
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Saloon Bar
1940 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Gordon Harker · Elizabeth Allan · Mervyn Johns · Joyce Barbour
Plot Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord, a group of pub locals lead by bookie Joe Harris set out to prove that...
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The Phantom Strikes (The Gaunt Stranger)
1938 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Sonnie Hale · Wilfrid Lawson · Louise Henry · Alexander Knox
Plot Crooked lawyer Maurice Meister's (Lawson) life is threatened by his ex-partner who is a master of disguise known as the Ringer. The police give him protection and place in his...
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The Ware Case
1938 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Clive Brook · Jane Baxter · Barry K. Barnes · C.V. France
Plot A financier is accused of murder when his brother-in-law is found dead in his garden pond. After winning the court case he returns home to find that his lawyer has...
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Invitation to the Waltz
1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Merzbach
Cast Lilian Harvey · Wendy Toye · Carl Esmond · Harold Warrender
Plot As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
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It's in the Air
1938 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Kimmins
Cast George Formby · Polly Ward · Jack Hobbs · Garry Marsh
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