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British filmmaker Ken Annakin, 94, directed a variety of movies, from the 1960 family classic Swiss Family Robinson to the 1965 Henry Fonda war epic The Battle of the Bulge. In 1966 he received an Oscar nomination for co-writing the screenplay for Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines...
Director Ken Annakin (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines) skillfully deploys the tanks across the Cinerama playing fields, but the end result is just another run on the bloodbank of the war. Bulge's sole achievement is that veterans may emerge from it feeling at least as affronted as Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, defender of Bastogne, whose imperishable reply to German surrender demands was simply, "Nuts...
...Filmed in England in 70-mm. Todd-AO and DeLuxe Color by spendthrift 20th Century-Fox (Cleopatra, The Sound of Music), this disarming comedy spectacular has the charm, spirit and easy-does-it amiability usually associated with movies made on a shoe string. Producer Stan Margulies and Director Ken Annakin, in lightsome homage to the birth of aviation, have sensibly squandered a good share of their budget on bamboo, catgut, glue, canvas and piano wire to reproduce an authentic, outlandish armada of vintage aircraft. These flaphappy contraptions include at least six flyable full-scale models, among them a facsimile...
...scriptwriters: Reporter Ryan, Novelists James Jones and Remain Gary, Scenarists David Pursall and Jack Seddon. The directors: Elmo Williams, Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald. Among the advisers: General d'Armee Pierre Koenig, Lieut. General James Gavin, Lord Lovat, General Gunther Blumentritt, Frau Lucie-Maria Rommel. A few of the stars: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Jean-Louis Barrault, Curt Jurgens, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Richard Beymer, Mel Ferrer, Jeffrey Hunter, Peter Lawford, Kenneth More, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stuart Whitman, Eddie Albert, Edmond O'Brien, Red Buttons, Sal Mineo, Tommy...
...people, from admirals to air-raid wardens, are al ways plausible. The lieutenant (Michael Denison) is no idealized figure; he is young, cocky and rather callow. The unglamorous Portsmouth barmaid (Patricia Plunkett) with whom he falls in love is as ordinary as their romance. Director Ken (Robin Hood) Annakin has made Land fall into a simple, straightforward, almost old-fashioned story with some richly convincing detail. By making real and affecting both the fallibility and the nobility of ordinary people in a time of crisis, the film takes on an extraordinary dimension of heroism without heroics...