The Goonies is a 1985 American adventure comedy film co-produced and directed by Richard Donner from a screenplay by Chris Columbus, based on a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg.
In the film, a band of kids who live in the "Goon Docks" neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon, attempt to save their homes from foreclosure and in doing so, they discover an old treasure map that takes them on an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune of One-Eyed Willy, a legendary 17th-century pirate.
During the entire adventure, they are chased by a family of criminals, who also want the treasure for themselves.
Produced by Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros. released the film theatrically on June 7, 1985 in the United States.
The film grossed $124 million worldwide on a budget of $19 million and has since become a cult film.
In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Edmund Goulding( 20 March 1891 – 24 December 1959) was a British screenwriter and director.
As an actor early in his career he was one of the' Ghosts' in the 1922 silent film" Three Live Ghosts" alongside Norman Kerry and Cyril Chadwick.
Also in the early 1920s he wrote several screenplays for star Mae Murray for films directed by her then husband Robert Z. Leonard.
Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas such as" Love"( 1927)," Grand Hotel"( 1932) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford," Dark Victory"( 1939) with Bette Davis, and" The Razor's Edge"( 1946) with Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power.
He also directed the classic film noir" Nightmare Alley"( 1947) with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell, and the action drama" The Dawn Patrol".
He was also a successful songwriter, composer, and producer.
The Constant Nymph is a 1943 romantic drama film starring Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Brenda Marshall, Charles Coburn, May Whitty, and Peter Lorre.
It was adapted by Kathryn Scola from the Margaret Kennedy novel and play by Kennedy and Basil Dean, and directed by Edmund Goulding.
Escape Me Never is a 1947 American melodrama film directed by Peter Godfrey and starring Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, and Gig Young.
It is the second film adaptation( the first was in 1935) of the play" Escape Me Never" by Margaret Kennedy, which was based on her 1930 novel The Fool in the Family.
That book was a continuation of her story of the fictional Sanger family of musical geniuses introduced in The Constant Nymph, but there is a disjunct among the books and the films:
The Sanger brothers are never mentioned in the 1943 film of The Constant Nymph, and their names are changed in this picture.
Richard Donner (born Richard Donald Schwartzberg, April 24, 1930) is an American director and producer of film and television.
After directing the horror film "The Omen" (1976), Donner became famous for directing the first modern superhero film, "Superman" (1978), starring Christopher Reeve.
Donner later went on to direct movies such as "The Goonies" (1985) and "Scrooged" (1988), while reinvigorating the buddy film genre with "Lethal Weapon" (1987) and its sequels.
He and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, own the production company The Donner's Company, most well known for producing the "X-Men" film series.
In 2000, he received the President's Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.
Film historian Michael Barson writes that Donner is "one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters".
The Constant Nymph is a 1928 British silent film drama, directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Ivor Novello and Mabel Poulton.
This was the first film adaptation of the 1924 best- selling and controversial novel" The Constant Nymph" by Margaret Kennedy and the 1926 stage play version written by Kennedy and Basil Dean.
The theme of adolescent sexuality reportedly discomfited the British film censors, until they were reassured that lead actress Poulton was in fact in her 20s.
Location filming took place in the Austrian Tyrol, and the film proved a commercial and critical success, being named the best British feature film of 1928.
Jo Botting of the British Film Institute notes:" The progression through the film is from light to darkness, from space to enclosure and from hope to despair."
The film is a remake of a 1943 film of the same name.
The Constant Nymph is a 1933 British drama film directed by Basil Dean and starring Victoria Hopper, Brian Aherne and Leonora Corbett.
It is an adaptation of the 1924 novel" The Constant Nymph" by Margaret Kennedy and the 1926 stage play adaptation written by Kennedy and Dean.
Dean tried to persuade Novello to reprise his appearance from the 1928 silent version" The Constant Nymph" but was turned down and cast Aherne in the part instead.
Escape Me Never is a 1935 British drama film directed by Paul Czinner, produced by Herbert Wilcox, and starring Elisabeth Bergner( recreating the role of Gemma as she created it onstage in New York and London), Hugh Sinclair and Griffith Jones.
The score is by William Walton with orchestration by Hyam Greenbaum.
Bergner was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance, but lost to Bette Davis.
British readers of" Film Weekly" magazine voted the 1935 Best Performance in a British Movie to her.
The film is an adaptation of the play" Escape Me Never" by Margaret Kennedy, which was based upon her 1930 novel" The Fool of the Family."
That book was a sequel to The Constant Nymph, which was also about the Sanger family of musical geniuses, but there is a disjunct among the books and the films:
The Sanger brothers are never mentioned in the 1943 film of The Constant Nymph.
Another film adaptation of Escape Me Never was made in 1947 by Warner Bros.
Liam Sullivan( May 18, 1923 – April 19, 1998) was an American actor and singer, originally from Jacksonville, Illinois.
He began acting while a student at Illinois College and continued in theater at Harvard University.
In 1951 he began his career on Broadway appearing in" The Constant Nymph".

Question: Are both directors of films The Goonies and The Constant Nymph (1943 film) from the same country?
Answer: no