This director began his film career making short documentaries, and in the post-war years mounted his first features, quickly proving himself an effective craftsman of both comedy and drama. In the 1950s, Annakin crafted some intrinsically British films and began working for Disney. By the 1960s, he specialized in sprawling, big-budget adventures, notably "The Swiss Family Robinson" (1960) and a series of long-distance marathon comedies beginning with "Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines" (1965). Annakin continued to work into the 80s, with "The Pirate Movie" (1982), a misguided