Best five films from British Directors (Part One A to J)

Thanks for reminding me about Annakin. Aside from his inspiring the whole Star Wars series, I always thought of him as no more than a competent hack in both his UK and US movies.

I liked the first "Huggett Family" film, Holiday Camp (1947), and when I saw it again a decade ago I found it very nostalgic about the England in which I grew up. Of course the sequels became clichéd and lazy.

Miranda (1948) had a lighter touch than the US rip-off Splash (1984) on probably 5% of the budget.

I like the W Somerset Maugham portmanteaus Quartet (1948) and Trio (1950) but Annakin's were the weaker sections.

If I saw Nor the Moon by Night (1958) I do not remember it. It sounds very "genre" and racist.

But there is one oddity in Annakin's filmography, Across the Bridge (1957), a nifty noir starring Rod Steiger. It had the advantage of being based on a Graham Greene story but, even so, it is so different from anything else he directed that I wonder if it was really his work or whether he lent his name to a banned director. It was shot in Europe, so that would have been possible. If that is too fanciful, then perhaps Steiger, who was a forceful character, steered him in a new direction.