Showing posts with label Ronald Neame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ronald Neame. Show all posts

10.2.12

the man who never was (1956)


"The major. May he have a safe, but successful journey."
An British intelligence officer (Clifton Webb) comes up with a cunning plan to fool the Germans as to where the Allies were intending to begin their land invasion in 1943. The plan was simple; get a body with bogus plans into the hands of the Germans. But how to do it, so that the body and its life story will convince the enemy agents scrutiny.
Based on intregingly real events, this is a classy, though uninvolving version of the story.

6.7.10

tunes of glory (1960)


"Colonel, there's a tradition here..."
Conflict arrises in the mess when the acting senior officer Major Jock Sinclair (Alec Guinness) is replaced by Lt. Colonel Basil Barrow (John Mills) as head of a highland regiment. Will the ranks follow one of their own, or submit to the rule of an outsider?
Powerful performances dominate this wordy drama where personalities, egos and politics clash with disastrous results.