Ken Annakin

The Longest Day

Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin

Eddie Albert, Paul Anka

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"

Rent-A-Person

Kurt Kuenne

James Haven, Jennifer Haworth

A lonely bathroom attendant starts a business renting passengers to freeway commuters who want to utilize the carpool lane.

Quartet

Ralph Smart, Harold French

W. Somerset Maugham, Basil Radford

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."

Across the Bridge

Ken Annakin

Rod Steiger, David Knight

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.

Trio

Harold French, Ken Annakin

Jean Simmons, James Hayter

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

Swiss Family Robinson

Ken Annakin

John Mills, Dorothy McGuire

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. A rousing adventure suitable for the whole family, this Disney adaptation of the classic Johann Wyss novel stars Dorothy McGuire and John Mills as Mother and Father Robinson.

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes

Ken Annakin

Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles

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. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

Third Man on the Mountain

Ken Annakin

Michael Rennie, James MacArthur

The thrilling, critically acclaimed account of Rudi Matt, a young kitchen worker who is determined to conquer the Citadel -- the jagged, snowcapped peak that claimed his father's life.

The Informers

Ken Annakin

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.

Miranda

Ken Annakin

Glynis Johns, Googie Withers

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.

Battle of the Bulge

Ken Annakin

Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw

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.

Very Important Person

Ken Annakin

James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips

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.

Holiday Camp

Ken Annakin

Flora Robson, Dennis Price

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.

Landfall

Ken Annakin

Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett

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.

Fenlands

Ken Annakin

A look at life in the Fenlands (a coastal, marshy plain in eastern England) in 1940's.

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

Ken Annakin

Richard Todd, Joan Rice

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.