John Huston directed this screen version of the Broadway musical based on the long-running comic strip ' Little Orphan Annie'. Annie (Aileen Quinn) lives a miserable life in an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan (Carol Burnett). A chance of escape & happiness comes Annie's way when she meets billionaire ' Daddy' Warbucks (Albert Finney), but Hannigan & her colleagues soon conspire to get Annie back.