Free Ride is a 1986 comedy film by Moustapha Akkad.
 Cast includes Mamie Van Doren, Peter DeLuise, Frank Campanella, and Sasha Jenson.
 Seen on USA Up All Night.
Turn Back the Clock is a 1933 American pre-Code MGM fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn, written by Selwyn and Ben Hecht, and starring Mae Clarke and Lee Tracy (while under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).
 The Three Stooges featuring Curly Howard appear in an uncredited straight role as wedding singers.
 There is a small gag wherein Lee Tracy asks the Stooges to sing "Tony's Wife", a song the Stooges have not heard of; Moe Howard then asks "Tony's wife?
 Who is she?"
 Although they are not credited as the Three Stooges (indeed, they receive no screen credit at all), this marks the first time the trio appeared as a group on film without their former leader, Ted Healy.
 They would launch their long-running film-shorts career a few months later.
The Arab is a 1915 American silent adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
 Edgar Selwyn had starred in the Broadway play version of the story in 1911, and this film is based on that play.
 Selwyn reprises his role from his play.
 This film was refilmed by Metro Pictures in 1924 as "The Arab".
The Message (Arabic: الرسالة‎ ‎ Ar-Risālah; originally known as Mohammad, Messenger of God) is a 1976 epic historical drama film directed by Moustapha Akkad, chronicling the life and times of Muhammad.
 Released in Arabic (1976) and English (1977), "The Message" serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.
Moustapha Al Akkad (Arabic: مصطفى العقاد‎ ‎ ; July 1, 1930 – November 11, 2005) was a Syrian American film producer and director, best known for producing the original series of "Halloween" films and directing "Mohammad, Messenger of God" and "Lion of the Desert".
 He was killed along with his daughter Rima Al Akkad Monla in the 2005 Amman bombings.
Lion of the Desert is a 1981 Libyan historical action film starring Anthony Quinn as Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar, a Bedouin leader fighting the "Regio Esercito" (Italian Royal Army) in the years leading up to World War II, and Oliver Reed as Italian General Rodolfo Graziani, who attempted to defeat Mukhtar.
 It was directed by Moustapha Akkad and funded by the government under Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
 Released in May 1981, the film was liked by critics and audiences but performed poorly financially, bringing in just $1 million net worldwide.
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 The film was banned in Italy in 1982 and was only shown on pay TV in 2009.
Edgar Selwyn (October 20, 1875 – February 13, 1944) was a prominent figure in American theater and film in the first half of the 20th century.
 He co-founded Goldwyn Pictures in 1916.
Archibald Selwyn (also Arch or Archie Selwyn; 3 November 1877 – 21 June 1959) was an American play broker, theater owner and stage producer who had many Broadway successes.
 He and his brother Edgar Selwyn were partners.
 They were among the founders of Goldwyn Pictures, later to be merged into MGM.
The Girl in the Show is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Edgar Selwyn and written by Edgar Selwyn and Joseph Farnham.
 The film stars Bessie Love, Raymond Hackett, Edward Nugent, Mary Doran, and Jed Prouty.
 The film was released August 31, 1929, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The Park Square Theatre (1915-1921) of Boston, Massachusetts, was a theatre in Park Square owned by Archibald and Edgar Selwyn.
 It occupied the former Cort Theatre in a building designed by architect Clarence Blackall.
 In 1921 "Selwyn's Park Square Theatre [was] renamed the Selwyn.
 ... In renaming the theatre, the owners ... made it one of a chain of Selwyn theatres in the United States."
 In time the building "was replaced by a huge parking garage for automobiles."

Question: Who is more likely to have had an impact in modern film, Edgar Selwyn or Moustapha Akkad?
Answer: Edgar Selwyn