Ken Annakin
Nascimento : 1914-08-10, Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK
Morte : 2009-04-22
História
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Kenneth Cooper Annakin, OBE (10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009) was an English film director.
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Narrator (Voice)
A lonely bathroom attendant starts a business renting passengers to freeway commuters who want to utilize the carpool lane.
Himself
A look behind the scenes at Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Writer
Após um acidente no iate de seu pai, uma menina irrequieta dotada de poderes mágicos chega a uma cidade no litoral da Flórida. Além de tirar rígida assistente social do sério, ela usa incríveis habilidades para salvar crianças em apuros.
Producer
Após um acidente no iate de seu pai, uma menina irrequieta dotada de poderes mágicos chega a uma cidade no litoral da Flórida. Além de tirar rígida assistente social do sério, ela usa incríveis habilidades para salvar crianças em apuros.
Director
Após um acidente no iate de seu pai, uma menina irrequieta dotada de poderes mágicos chega a uma cidade no litoral da Flórida. Além de tirar rígida assistente social do sério, ela usa incríveis habilidades para salvar crianças em apuros.
Director
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. In your typical boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy fights girl with swords plot, the story revolves around Mabel ...
Director
A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney.
Director
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...
Director
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.
Director
An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, is put in charge of his country's vast oil fortunes. He comes into conflict with a fanatical terrorist group--headed by his daughter.
Director
A bubble-brained Philadelphia waitress witnesses a murder during the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and finds herself stalked by the killer.
Director
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.
Director
O vencedor do Oscar Charlton Heston interpreta John Thornton, um homem destemido que busca mais do que ouro; ele quer fazer o que é certo. Thornton trabalha para o correio dos EUA e é a única pessoa ousada e inteligente o suficiente para descobrir como viajar as mortais 600 milhas de Skagway para Dawson, no Alasca, no inverno gelado. Seu incrivel cachorro Buck está sempre ao seu lado e é parte da explicação de como Thornton sobrevive.
Screenplay
Em uma corrida internacional de carros, os concorrentes devem viajar a partir de vários pontos da Europa para Monte Carlo, e em seguida correr os seus carros. As coisas ficam complicadas por causa de Contrabando, Fraude, Honra, Invenções, Medicina e Amor à Primeira Vista.
Director
Em uma corrida internacional de carros, os concorrentes devem viajar a partir de vários pontos da Europa para Monte Carlo, e em seguida correr os seus carros. As coisas ficam complicadas por causa de Contrabando, Fraude, Honra, Invenções, Medicina e Amor à Primeira Vista.
Director
A kidnapped mobster (Vittorio De Sica) persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
Producer
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his official colonial capacity, the policeman is impressed by the ingenuity and integrity of his enemy and is determined to arrest him alive rather than bring him in dead as his superiors might wish.
Director
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his official colonial capacity, the policeman is impressed by the ingenuity and integrity of his enemy and is determined to arrest him alive rather than bring him in dead as his superiors might wish.
Director
No final da Segunda Guerra, em dezembro de 1944, o comando das Forças Aliadas já comemora o triunfo sobre as combalidas forças nazistas por toda a Europa. Quando remanescentes do quase derrotado exército nazista planejam um ataque surpresa às forças aliadas, que já não contavam mais com nenhuma reação, um experiente oficial americano alerta seus superiores sobre a possibilidade de uma última ofensiva em massa do inimigo. Esse soldado, experiente, porém desacreditado por seus companheiros, tenta convencer seus superiores a tomarem medidas para impedir a ação. Mas não é ouvido com seriedade. Comandados por um coronel obstinado, os alemães provam que ainda têm poder de fogo e são capazes de dar muito trabalho aos aliados.
Screenplay
Uma corrida aérea internacional é sinônimo de aventura nas alturas e fantástica diversão! Esta versão extraordinariamente hilária da histórica corrida aérea Londres-Paris de 1910 apresenta os maiores aviadores de todo o mundo. Eles se reúnem quando um editor jornalístico pedante, mas muito rico, decide patrocinar uma corrida aérea através do Canal da Mancha, oferecendo o prêmio de 10 mil libras ao vencedor. As proezas das equipes americana, britânica, francesa, alemã, italiana e japonesa dão origem às mais ousadas e hilárias acrobacias aéreas já registradas em filme.
Director
Uma corrida aérea internacional é sinônimo de aventura nas alturas e fantástica diversão! Esta versão extraordinariamente hilária da histórica corrida aérea Londres-Paris de 1910 apresenta os maiores aviadores de todo o mundo. Eles se reúnem quando um editor jornalístico pedante, mas muito rico, decide patrocinar uma corrida aérea através do Canal da Mancha, oferecendo o prêmio de 10 mil libras ao vencedor. As proezas das equipes americana, britânica, francesa, alemã, italiana e japonesa dão origem às mais ousadas e hilárias acrobacias aéreas já registradas em filme.
Director
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.
Director
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
Director
O maior ataque que o mundo já viu, acontecido no dia 6 de junho, ficou conhecido como o Dia D e desbancou o domínio nazista na Europa. A ofensiva, que envolveu mais de 3 milhões de homens, foi uma das mais ousadas e sangrentas estratégias militares da era moderna e marcou o início do fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Vencedor dos Oscar de Fotografia em Preto e Branco e Efeitos Especiais, foi indicado ainda à outras três categorias: Filme, Montagem e Direção de Arte em Preto e Branco.
Writer
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Director
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Director
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. Hargis tries to get back up from the townsfolk who do not want to know, so is forced to lay low. As things get out of hand one of the Billings boys takes an interest in the storekeeper's wife, Priss Dobbs (Anne Aubrey). Having had enough her husband, Ernie (Jamie Uys) takes up the gun and heads down the main street alone. An act that prompts Hargis to join him. Slowly, the townsfolk turn up to back them up.
Director
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. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety - only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.
Director
Depois de um naufrágio, a família Robinson fica abandonada em uma ilha habitada apenas por uma impressionante variedade de vida selvagem. Num verdadeiro espírito de pioneiro, eles rapidamente se sentem em casa, mas logo enfrentam um perigo ainda maior do que a natureza: piratas assustadores. É uma aventura estimulante, adequada para toda a família, adaptação Disney do romance clássico de Johann Wyss. Com as estrelas Dorothy McGuire e John Mills como mãe e pai Robinson.
Director
Filme sobre um jovem aventureiro que apesar de perder seu pai escalando uma montanha irá tentar subir uma montanha jamais escalada.
Director
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. The two become attracted to each other, but when Andrew is attacked by a lion, Alice nurses him back to health. Now torn between affection and duty, she must decide which path to follow.
Director
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.
Director
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
Director
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. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
Director
A wealthy young man (Gregson) from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer (Dors). She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
Director
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
Director
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. One night, whilst under the influence of alcohol, he welds an old pram to the deck of a foreign destroyer for a joke. The next morning, British Intelligence is desperate to know what the enemy’s new weapon is. To cover his tracks, Green calls it the ‘998’. When he is posted to the destroyer to explain about radar techniques, Green soon realizes that his prank has gone too far.
Director
Conta a história de Mary Tudor e sua problemática jornada até o amor verdadeiro. Henry VIII, por razões políticas, determina que ela case com o Rei da França. Ela tenta escapar para a América com seu amor mas é capturada quando sua identidade é revelada numa embarcação de navio. Em troca de seu consentimento quanto ao casamento com o rei, Henry concorda em deixar que ela escolha um segundo marido. Quando o Rei Louis da França morre, Mary é sequestrada pelo duque de Buckingham, que tenta forçá-la ao casamento.
Director
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.
Director
Versão da Disney do clássico onde o jovem Robin Hood, apaixonado por Marian, entra em um concurso de tiro de arco e flechas com seu pai no palácio do rei. No caminho para casa, seu pai é assassinado por capangas do príncipe John. Robin leva uma vida foragida da lei, juntando seu bando de homens alegres e liderando-os à Floresta de Sherwood, para vingar a morte de seu pai e ajudar as pessoas da região que o príncipe explora através de altos impostos.
Director
World War II farce about the hotel of the title
Director
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Director
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.
Director
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. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
Director
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. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
Director
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.
Director
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.
Director
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."
Director
Passengers and crew struggle to survive after their plane crashes in the Alps.
Director
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.
Director
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.
Director
Dramatically told, English Criminal Justice takes us on a journey through the principles and procedures of the various courts of law in Britain.
Director
A Technicolor film on the principles and practicalities of crop rotation, illustrated with diagrams and models.
Director
Exploring the daily life of a large family in Yorkshire, at work in the textile mills and at play.
Producer
A look at life in the Fenlands (a coastal, marshy plain in eastern England) in 1940's.
Screenplay
A look at life in the Fenlands (a coastal, marshy plain in eastern England) in 1940's.
Director
A look at life in the Fenlands (a coastal, marshy plain in eastern England) in 1940's.
Director
Propaganda short about the capital's efforts to adapt to the third year of war.
Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
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. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
