Ken Annakin — Director (17)
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The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
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Ken Annakin actor: Beau Bridges / Sylvia Kristel …
other title: Den femte musketer / Das Geheimnis der eisernen Maske …
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. The king wants to increase his popularity and stages an assassination against himself where Philippe is dressed as king Louis. But Philippe manages to escape the assassination and everybody believes him to be the real king...
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Paper Tiger (1975)
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Ken Annakin actor: David Niven / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: Buona fortuna maggiore Bradbury / Papirtigeren …
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.
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The Sword and the Rose (1953)
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Ken Annakin actor: Richard Todd / Glynis Johns …
other title: La spada e la rosa / A Espada e a Rosa …
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. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
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Ken Annakin actor: Richard Todd / Joan Rice …
other title: Robin Hood e i compagni della foresta / Robin dos Bosques, o Justiceiro …
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.
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The Informers (1963)
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Ken Annakin actor: Nigel Patrick / Katherine Woodville …
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. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.
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Value for Money (1955)
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Ken Annakin actor: John Gregson / Diana Dors …
other title: Febbre bionda / Lieber reich - aber glücklich
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.
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Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
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Ken Annakin actor: Bourvil / Lando Buzzanca …
other title: Quei temerari sulle loro pazze, scatenate, scalcinate carriole / Friske fyre i skæppeskønne skrammelkasser …
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.
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Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Swiss Family Robinson
Ken Annakin actor: John Mills / Dorothy McGuire …
other title: Robinson nell'isola dei corsari / Familien Robinson og piraterne …
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates.
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Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Battle of the Bulge
Ken Annakin actor: Henry Fonda / Axel Anderson …
other title: La battaglia dei giganti / Panserslaget ved Ardennerne …
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.
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The Longest Day (1962)
The Longest Day
Ken Annakin / Bernhard Wicki … actor: John Wayne / Robert Mitchum …
other title: Il giorno più lungo / Den længste dag …
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"