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Annie (1981)
Director: John Huston
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The mystery about Huston's $60m screen adaptation of the hit stage musical - an entirely ordinary and comparatively unspectacular musical fable in which perky orphan Annie (Quinn) wins the heart of mean millionaire Daddy Warbucks (Finney) - is how it could possibly have cost so much. The songs never take off into anything very much, the whole atmosphere (apart from the climax) is distinctly stagebound, and Huston merely reveals why he had never before in his long career been hired to make a musical.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: John Huston
Producer: Ray Stark
Cast: Albert Finney, Aileen Quinn, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Bernadette Peters, Tim Curry full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 128 mins
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