Ken Annakin
Director, Actor
- Quartet (1949)
- Dir. Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford, Honor Blackman
- Four W Somerset Maugham stories are given exemplary treatment by the best of British, incl. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford and Honor Blackman. Unlike…
- Story of Robin Hood, The (1952)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch…
- Colourful, uncomplicated rendering of the famous tale should delight younger viewers. Filmed in England by Walt Disney Studios.
- Planter's Wife, The (Outpost in Malaya) (1952)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel…
- Claudette Colbert and Jack Hawkins star in this fiery actioner as plantation owners under siege from commie bandits. Colbert is a dab hand with a…
- Seekers, The (Land of Fury) (1954)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Noel Purcell…
- Melodramatic tale full of 'mighty imperialist' sentiment follows British pioneers toughing it out in 1820's New Zealand in harsh conditions and at…
- Across the Bridge (1957)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Rod Steiger, Marla Landi, Noel Willman…
- An underrated and little–known thriller with Steiger playing a shady accountant on the run from the FBI and Scotland Yard, who tries to make…
- Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur
- The shipwrecked family prove as resourceful as the eponymous army–knife in their fight for survival against Mother Nature and dastardly…
- Longest Day, The (1962)
- Dir. Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
Feat. John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum…
- One the great WW2 films, with over 40 international stars. The large scale battle scenes have taken some outdoing.
- Fast Lady, The (1963)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Leslie Phillips, Ronnie Barker, James Robertson-Justice…
- Stanley Baxter attempts to woo Julie Christie with a Bentley convertible he can't drive in this hilarious English comedy, centred on the perils of…
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox…
- Great theme tune sets the tone of this large–scale, rip–roaring comedy about a 1910 aeroplane race, rife with international conflicts,…
- Battle of the Bulge (1965)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan…
- Admirable and far from simplistic recreation of the Nazi's WW2 counter–offensive in the Ardennes in 1944, which led to a series of bitter…