Elmer Clifton( March 14, 1890 – October 15, 1949) was an American writer, director and actor from the early silent days.
A collaborator of D.W. Griffith, he appeared in" The Birth of a Nation"( 1915) and" Intolerance"( 1916) before giving up acting in 1917 to concentrate on work behind the camera, with Griffith and Joseph Henabery as his mentors.
His first feature- length solo effort as a director was" The Flame of Youth" with Jack Mulhall.
Clifton honed his talents during the late 1910s, directing vehicles for Mulhall and Herbert Rawlinson at Universal and then for Dorothy Gish for Famous Players- Lasky.
Two of his projects with Gish," Nobody Home" and" Nugget Nell", featured performances from pre-stardom Rudolph Valentino.
Most of this early output has been lost.
He was the first filmmaker to discover the talents of Clara Bow, whom he cast in" Down to the Sea in Ships", released on March 4, 1923.
The independently produced film was well reviewed for its visual authenticity.
During the 1920s, Clifton directed films for several different studios.
During the filming of" The Warrens of Virginia"( 1924) for Fox Film Corporation, lead actress Martha Mansfield suffered a fatal accident from burns when her costume caught fire.
Clifton directed" The Wreck of the Hesperus" for Cecil B. deMille's production company, and filmed on location in the Grand Canyon for" The Bride of the Colorado".
He also directed some Technicolor short films, including" Manchu Love" with an all- Asian cast.
In the sound era, Clifton wrote and directed many poverty row Westerns and" exploitation" classics, among them the anti-marijuana polemic" Assassin of Youth"( 1937).
He also directed the vice films" Gambling with Souls"( 1936)," Slaves in Bondage"( 1937) and" City of Missing Girls"( 1941), all of which portrayed addiction and white slavery to some degree.
His last film was" Not Wanted"( 1949), which was finished by producer Ida Lupino when Clifton became ill and was unable to work anymore.
He died in 1949 of a cerebral hemorrhage shortly after the film's release.
Edward Dmytryk( September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian- born American film director.
He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for" Crossfire"( 1947).
In 1947, he was named as one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who refused to testify to the House Un- American Activities Committee( HUAC) in their investigations during the McCarthy- era' Red scare'.
They all served time in prison for contempt of Congress.
In 1951, however, Dmytryk did testify to HUAC and rehabilitated his career.
First hired again by independent producer Stanley Kramer in 1952, Dmytryk is likely best known for directing" The Caine Mutiny"( 1954), a critical and commercial success.
The second- highest grossing film of the year, it was nominated for Best Picture and several other awards at the 1955 Oscars.
Dmytryk was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.
Confessions of Boston Blackie is a 1941 American crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Chester Morris and Harriet Hilliard.
A woman consigns a family heirloom to a pair of unscrupulous art dealers in order to raise money to help her sick brother.
This film is the second in the series of 14 Columbia Pictures Boston Blackie films, all starring Morris as the reformed crook.
It was preceded by" Meet Boston Blackie"( 1941) and followed by" Alias Boston Blackie"( 1942).
Boston Blackie's Rendezvous is a 1945 American crime film directed by Arthur Dreifuss.
Boston Blackie's life gets complicated when maniac murderer James Cook( Steve Cochran) goes on a killing spree while pretending to be Boston Blackie.
To further complicate matters, the murderer kidnaps Sally Brown( Nina Foch) to keep Boston Blackie at bay.
The working title of this film was" Surprise in the Night".
Isle of Destiny (aka Trouble Over the Pacific) is a 1940 American comedy adventure film set in the South Seas.
The film was directed by Elmer Clifton and originally produced by Franklyn Warner for Grand National Pictures in 1939.
"Isle of Destiny" was the only feature film filmed in the "Cosmocolor" process with prints by Cinecolor. "Isle of Destiny" stars William Gargan, Wallace Ford, June Lang and Gilbert Roland.
A Close Call for Boston Blackie( 1946) is the tenth of fourteen Columbia Pictures crime films directed by Lew Landers starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie.
Alias Boston Blackie( 1942) is the third in a series of Columbia Pictures" B" movies starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie.
It was preceded by" Meet Boston BlackieConfessions of Boston Blackie" and followed by" Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood".
Once again, Blackie is suspected of committing a crime, in this instance of helping a prisoner escape.
Boston Blackie and the Law is the twelfth of fourteen Columbia Pictures films starring Chester Morris as reformed crook Boston Blackie.
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood is a 1942 American crime film, fourth of the fourteen Boston Blackie films of the 1940s Columbia's series of B pictures based on Jack Boyle's pulp-fiction character.
After Midnight with Boston Blackie is a 1943 crime film directed by Lew Landers.
It is the fifth of a series of 14 Columbia Pictures movies starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie.
When a recently paroled friend of Boston Blackie is killed, he finds himself once again the prime suspect of Police Inspector Farraday.

Question: Which film has the director who was born later, Confessions Of Boston Blackie or Isle Of Destiny?
Answer: Confessions Of Boston Blackie