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Kenneth Cooper Annakin, OBE (10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009) was an English film director. His career spanned half a century, beginning in the early 1940s and ending in 1992, and in the 1960s he was noticed by critics with large-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Battle of the Bulge, The Biggest Bundle of Them All and Monte Carlo or Bust!. During his career, Annakin directed nearly 50 pictures.
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Total trailers found: 54
01 January 1981
A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney.
16 December 1965
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
16 June 1965
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel.
27 November 1961
Luke Billings (Lionel Jeffries) and his family have a problem with the new police sergeant Sam Hargis (Richard Todd) so they take over a small Transvaal town with the attention of drawing Hargis into a showdown.
06 August 1982
A comedy/musical utilizing both new songs and parodies from the original (Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance), as well as references to popular films of the time, including Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
09 September 1956
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts.
31 March 1962
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA.
10 November 1959
Third Man on the Mountain is an American film directed by Ken Annakin and produced by Walt Disney Productions, released in 1959.
02 December 1948
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
28 April 1969
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.
23 December 1956
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
06 April 1948
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
21 March 1949
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job.
09 August 1955
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
04 December 1952
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
10 October 1950
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
17 January 1968
A kidnapped mobster persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
29 November 1963
When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off.
25 September 1962
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French.
09 February 1954
The best of British humor is on display in this satirical cold war romp! Donald Sinden plays Lieutenant Green, a radar expert in the Royal Navy.
05 August 1947
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
04 February 1941
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps.
24 April 1961
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar.
07 May 2002
A look behind the scenes at Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
22 June 1954
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
30 April 1950
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsuccessful attempts on his life while the police clear up the mystery.
21 December 1960
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife.
30 September 1949
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat.
06 November 1959
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its theatrically released or TV shows.
01 February 1949
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
14 April 1948
A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged batteries and with limited food supplies, the survivors must come to a decision -- whether to stay and wait for help they believe is coming or to leave the shelter of the wrecked plane and set out in bad weather to try to reach civilization.
21 November 1978
An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he is entrusted with managing his country's oil fortunes and must deal with a fanatical terrorist group led by his daughter.
26 October 1948
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady.
26 May 1952
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace.
23 July 1953
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France.
07 March 2004
A lonely bathroom attendant starts a business renting passengers to freeway commuters who want to utilize the carpool lane.
30 November 1972
John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.
01 March 1988
After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr.
25 July 1946
A Technicolor film on the principles and practicalities of crop rotation, illustrated with diagrams and models.
07 August 1958
When Alice Lang flies out to Kenya to marry gamekeeper Andrew Miller she is met by his brother Rusty, who is initially opposed to the marriage.
22 January 1979
A sophisticated computer named IFR (the film's title is its nickname) supervises an organization dedicated to correcting wrongs against the defenseless and assigns human operatives to track down the evildoers and bring them to justice non-violently.
09 July 1951
World War II farce about the hotel of the title
10 May 1978
A bubble-brained Philadelphia waitress witnesses a murder during the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and finds herself stalked by the killer.
20 August 1957
In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.
25 July 1946
Dramatically told, English Criminal Justice takes us on a journey through the principles and procedures of the various courts of law in Britain.
27 July 1967
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier.
06 April 1979
King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille.
01 January 1952
Promotional film for The Story of Robin Hood, featuring Walt Disney and production personnel; released in 1952.
14 December 1962
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
05 November 1975
A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
02 January 1946
A look at life in the Fenlands (a coastal, marshy plain in eastern England) in 1940's.
01 July 1946
Exploring the daily life of a large family in Yorkshire, at work in the textile mills and at play.
23 December 1950
A behind the scene look at Petula Clark's working day in 1948 on "Here Come the Huggetts".
25 January 1943
Propaganda short about the capital's efforts to adapt to the third year of war.
