Movies directed by Ken Annakin

Holiday Camp (1947)

97 mins     Comedy      

Movie Review - Holiday Camp (1947) Flora Robson, Dennis Price, Jack Warner, Hazel Court, Emrys Jones, Kathleen Harrison, Yvonne Owen, Esmond Knight, Jimmy Hanley, Peter Hammond, Esma Cannon...

Double Confession (1950)

80 mins     Crime, Drama      

"Double Confession" starts with Jim Medway arriving by train in the middle of night, the billows of steam filling up the station and in that one scene director Ken Annakin tells us we are in film noir territory with the look,...

Hotel Sahara (1951)

96 mins     Comedy, Romance, War      

So the joke is that Peter Ustinov plays a hen pecked owner of a hotel who has to deal with his fiancee and her Mama flirting with the soldiers so that they and their hotel can survive the war. Of course he gets increasing fru...

Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

126 mins     Adventure , Family      

Swiss Family Robinson (1960) John Mills is the head of the Robinson family who are on an adventure of a life time when they are shipwrecked on a tropical island...

Very Important Person (1961)

98 mins     Comedy      

Released a few years before "The Great Escape", "Very Important Person" is a humorous prisoner of war movie starring James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips and Stanley Baxter....

Crooks Anonymous (1962)

88 mins     Comedy, Crime      

"Crooks Anonymous" is one of those British comedies from the 1960s which is all but forgotten about but is well worth a watch if you can find it. It has that easy going sense of fun which comes from the various actors such as...

The Longest Day (1962)

178 mins     Action , Drama, War      

Darryl F. Zanuck started producing movies back in 1925 when he was in his early twenties and in 48 years he was involved in the production of over 200 movies many of which are highly regarded as he worked with just about anyo...

The Fast Lady (1963)

95 mins     Comedy      

The Fast Lady (1963) Stanley Baxter leads the laughs as Murdoch Troon, a loved up young man learning to drive in a vintage Bentley with chaos ensuing...

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)

138 mins     Action , Adventure , Comedy      

Even when you use its truncated title "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes" still has a long title and that is not the only thing which is long about it as ...

Battle of the Bulge (1965)

167 mins     Action , Drama, War      

Anyone who has read my reviews of other WWII movies will know that my knowledge of the war is limited due to the poor history lessons which for some reason decided to ignore teaching us about the various conflicts during WWII...

Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)

120 mins     Comedy      

There is part of me which is confused by "Monte Carlo or Bust!" and not just because it's also known as "Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies". Nope I am confused as to why such a movie which came from the same peo...

The Call of the Wild (1972)

101 mins     Adventure , Family      

"The Call of the Wild" is a strange movie, it seriously alienated me within the first 20 minutes and I was quite disgusted by what I watched, it struggled to win me back during the middle section but by the end I had strangel...

Paper Tiger (1975)

99 mins     Adventure , Drama      

Movie Review - Paper Tiger (1975) David Niven stars as Major Bradbury whose tales of wartime heroics are all lies but makes him popular with the child he tutors. But when they are kidnapped he has to find some inner courage t...