He was later associated with another American producer, Darryl F. Zanuck, when he was hired to direct the British segments in The Longest Day. As head of the 20th Century-Fox Studio, Zanuck endorsed Annakin's most ambitious project Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). He also directed the big-scale war film Battle of the Bulge (also 1965) for the Warner Brothers studio.
However, some of Annakin's better received films are smaller-scale comedies and dramas, including his episodes in Quartet (1948) and Trio (1950), based on Somerset Maugham's stories, Hotel Sahara (1951), Across the Bridge (1957), Crooks Anonymous (1962), The Fast Lady (1963) and The Informers (1963).
His last theatrical motion picture was The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988).
He is a friend of George Lucas, and as such, was used by Lucas as the source of the name for Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars.
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