{"input": "Are both directors of films It'S Never Too Late (1956 Film) and The Slaughter Rule from the same country?", "context": "Passage 1:\nThe Slaughter Rule\nThe Slaughter Rule is a 2002 independent film directed by Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith and starring Ryan Gosling and David Morse.  The film, set in contemporary Montana, explores the relationship between a small-town high school football player (Gosling), and his troubled coach (Morse). The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.\n\nPlot\nRoy Chutney is a high school senior in the fictional Montana town of Blue Springs. Roy does not have an especially close relationship with his mother Evangeline and has not seen his father in years. That does not prevent Roy from feeling emotionally devastated when he learns that his father has killed himself, and Roy's self-esteem takes a beating when he is cut from the high school football team shortly afterward. Roy whiles away his time by swilling beer with his best friend, Tracy Two Dogs, and falling into a romance with Skyla, a barmaid at a local tavern, but Roy's short time on the high school gridiron seems to have impressed Gideon Ferguson, a local character who coaches an unsanctioned high school six-man football team when he is not delivering newspapers or trying to score a gig singing country songs at nearby honky-tonks.\nGideon thinks that Roy has potential and asks him to join his team; encouraged by Gideon's belief in him, Roy agrees, and he persuades Tracy and his friend Russ to tag along. While playing hardscrabble six-man football helps restore Roy's self-confidence, he finds it does not answer his questions about his future or his relationship with Skyla. When Gideon's overwhelming interest in Roy begins to lend credence to town rumors that Gideon is gay, Roy starts to wonder just why he was asked to join the team.\n\nCast\nRyan Gosling as Roy Chutney\nDavid Morse as Gideon Ferguson\nClea DuVall as Skyla Sisco\nKelly Lynch as Evangeline Chutney\nDavid Cale as Studebaker\nEddie Spears as Tracy Two Dogs\nAmy Adams as Doreen\nKen White as Russ Colfax\n\nProduction\nJay Farrar, founder of the alternative country bands Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, composed the film's musical score. New songs were written and performed by Vic Chesnutt and Freakwater, and existing songs by Ryan Adams, Uncle Tupelo, and the Pernice Brothers were also included.Filming for the movie largely took place in Great Falls, Montana, and a series of small towns in the Great Falls vicinity.The title of the film comes from the term \"slaughter rule.\" The unofficial rule provides for an athletic competition's premature conclusion if one team is ahead of the other by a certain number of points prior to game's end. The rule helps to avoid humiliating the losing team further.\n\nRelease\nThe film premiered in January 2002 during the Sundance Film Festival. Later that year, the film entered the South by Southwest Film Festival and the AFI Film Festival. It went into limited release nationwide beginning January 2003.\n\nCritical reception\nOn review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 74% based on 31 reviews, and an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads, \"A bleak but original indie, The Slaughter Rule benefits from outstanding performances by Ryan Gosling and David Morse.\" On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\".While the performances by Morse and Gosling were generally received positively, some reviews of the film criticized the script. Reviewing the film for The New York Times, Stephen Holden praised the performances of Gosling and Morse, but opined that the film is \"confused\" and \"doesn't have much dramatic momentum\". In her review for the Los Angeles Times, Manohla Dargis praised the film's cinematography but wrote that although the film has the virtue of sincerity, the story is \"over-explained\".Joe Leydon of Variety claimed the script \"plays like a first draft\". However, Marjorie Baumgarten of The Austin Chronicle thought that the \"writing and directing team of twin brothers Alex and Andrew Smith have made an astonishingly good first feature\". J. R. Jones, writing in Chicago Reader, described the film as \"powerful\" and especially praised David Morse's performance.\n\nAccolades\nThe film received the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2002 Stockholm Film Festival and the Milagro Award at the 2002 Santa Fe Film Festival. The film was also nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2003 Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.\n\nSee also\nList of American football films\nPassage 2:\nIt's Never Too Late (1956 film)\nIt's Never Too Late is a 1956 British comedy film directed by Michael McCarthy and starring Phyllis Calvert, Patrick Barr, Susan Stephen and Guy Rolfe. It was based on a 1952 play of the same name by Felicity Douglas.\n\nPlot\nFeeling her combative family has long taken her for granted, genteel British housewife Laura Hammond somehow finds time to write a film script amidst the chaos of her home life. Her work catches the attention of a Hollywood producer, and Laura unexpectedly finds herself the author of a hit film. She also finds she can only write when she's surrounded by her dysfunctional family. Eventually, Laura must choose between being a highly paid writer and celebrity or a housewife.\n\nCast\nPhyllis Calvert as Laura Hammond\nPatrick Barr as Charles Hammond\nSusan Stephen as Tessa Hammond\nGuy Rolfe as Stephen Hodgson\nJean Taylor Smith as Grannie\nSarah Lawson as Anne Hammond\nDelphi Lawrence as Mrs Madge Dixon\nPeter Hammond as Tony\nRichard Leech as John Hammond\nRobert Ayres as Leroy Crane\nPeter Illing as Guggenheimer\nIrene Handl as Neighbour\nSam Kydd Uncredited\nFred Griffiths as Removal Man (uncredited)\n\nCritical reception\nTV Guide noted, \"some clever moments, but the film suffers from a staginess that makes it a mildly amusing comedy at best\" ; while the Radio Times found it \"an amiable comedy...This is very much of its time, with its West End origins masked by skilful art direction, but the period cast is a British film fan's delight: Guy Rolfe, Patrick Barr, Susan Stephen, Irene Handl, and even a young Shirley Anne Field. Director Michael McCarthy whips up a fair old storm in this particular teacup, and, although nothing really happens, there's a great deal of pleasure to be had from watching Calvert attempt to rule over her unruly household.\"\nPassage 3:\nNever Too Late (1997 film)\nNever Too Late is a 1996 Canadian comedy-drama film starring Olympia Dukakis, Jean Lapointe, Cloris Leachman and Corey Haim. It was filmed in Montreal, Quebec.\n\nPlot summary\nJoseph, Rose, and Olive suspect Carl, the owner of a retirement home, of misusing the funds of the home's residents. Together they set out to see that no one takes advantage of their unhealthy friend Woody.\n\nCast\nOlympia Dukakis as Rose\nCloris Leachman as Olive\nJan Rube\u0161 as Joseph\nMatt Craven as Carl\nJean Lapointe as Woody\nCorey Haim as Max\n\nAwards\nAt the 17th Genie Awards in 1996, Paola Ridolfi received a nomination for Best Art Direction/Production Design, and Donald Martin was nominated for Best Original Screenplay.\nPassage 4:\nNever Too Late (1935 film)\nNever Too Late is a 1935 American crime film directed by Bernard B. Ray and stars Richard Talmadge, Thelma White and Robert Frazer.\n\nPlot\nCast\nRichard Talmadge as Det. Dick Manning\nThelma White as Helen Lloyd\nRobert Frazer as Commissioner George Hartley\nMildred Harris as Marie Lloyd Hartley\nVera Lewis as Mother Hartley\nRobert Walker as Matt Dunning - Henchman bidding at auction\nGeorge Chesebro as Dude Hannigan - Second Henchman At Auction\nBull Montana as Monte, an escaped convict\nPaul Ellis as Lavelle, the jewel thief\nLloyd Ingraham as Chief of Detectives Winter\nPassage 5:\nIt's Never Too Late to Mend\nIt's Never Too Late to Mend (alternatively just Never Too Late to Mend; US release title Never Too Late) is a 1937 British melodrama film directed by David MacDonald and starring Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey and Marjorie Taylor. In the film, a villainous squire and Justice of the Peace conspires to have his rival in love arrested on false charges.It is based on the 1856 novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade. The film was made at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie for release by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was popular enough to be re-released in 1942.\nThe novel was adapted once before, as a British silent film in 1922, starring Russell Thorndike as Squire Meadows.\n\nPlot summary\nCast\nTod Slaughter as Squire John Meadows\nJack Livesey as Tom Robinson\nMarjorie Taylor as Susan Merton\nIan Colin as George Fielding\nLaurence Hanray as Lawyer Crawley\nD.J. Williams as Farmer Merton\nRoy Russell as Reverend Mr. Eden\nJohn Singer as Matthew Josephs\nLeonard Sharp as Bradshaw\nMavis Villiers as Betty\nCecil Bevan as Prison Inspector\nDouglas Stewart as Prison Inspector\nJack Vyvian as Innkeeper\n\nCritical reception\nTV Guide wrote, \"Great fun in the old cloak-and-dagger melodrama style...Played in an exaggerated, bigger-than-life manner, this melodrama is a good enough outing, particularly for fans of camp.\" and Sky Movies wrote, \"As usual, Tod Slaughter ignores the intimacy of the film medium and roars through this movie at full throttle, giving the kind of marvellously storming performance that would easily have reached the back row of the upper circle...David MacDonald is more a referee than a conventional director, coming up with a highly entertaining slice of ripe and fruity hokum.\"\nPassage 6:\nAlex Smith (golfer)\nAlexander Smith (28 January 1874 \u2013 21 April 1930) was a Scottish-American professional golfer who played in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was a member of a famous Scottish golfing family. His brother Willie won the U.S. Open in 1899, and Alex won it in both 1906 and 1910. Like many British professionals of his era he spent much of his adult life working as a club professional in the United States.\n\nEarly life\nSmith was born in Carnoustie, Scotland, on 28 January 1874, the son of John D. Smith and Joann Smith n\u00e9e Robinson. On 18 January 1895 he was married to Jessie Maiden\u2014sister of James Maiden\u2014and they had two daughters, Fannie and Margaret, born in 1896 and 1899, respectively. Smith was sometimes referred to as \"Alec\" Smith, especially early in his career.\n\nGolf career\nHe was the head professional at Nassau Country Club in Glen Cove, New York, from 1901 through 1909. James Maiden, who would forge a successful golf career of his own, served as assistant professional under Smith at Nassau.In 1901, Smith lost to Willie Anderson in a playoff for the U.S. Open title. Smith's 1906 U.S. Open victory came at the Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, Illinois. His 72-hole score of 295 was the lowest at either the U.S. Open or the British Open up to that time, and he won $300. The 1910 U.S. Open was played over the St. Martin's course at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. Smith won a three-man playoff against American John McDermott and another of his own brothers, Macdonald Smith. Alex Smith played in eighteen U.S. Opens in total and accumulated eleven top ten placings.\nSmith, who partnered with C. A. Dunning in the 1905 Metropolitan Open four-ball tournament held on 16 September 1905 at Fox Hills Golf Club on Staten Island, tied for first place with George Low and Fred Herreshoff with a score of 71. A playoff wasn't held due to the fact that Smith was also competing in the medal competition which he won from Willie Anderson.Smith also won the Western Open twice and the Metropolitan Open four times.\n\nLater life\nIn 1910, Smith was a widower and lived with his two young daughters and sister-in-law, Allison Barry, in New Rochelle, New York. He was the head professional at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. After the death of his brother, Willie Smith, he took over responsibility for the design of Club de Golf Chapultepec, which has hosted the Mexican Open multiple times, and the WGC-Mexico Championship since 2017.\n\nDeath and legacy\nSmith died on 21 April 1930 at a sanatorium in Baltimore, Maryland.\n\nTournament wins\nNote: This list may be incomplete1903 Western Open\n1905 Metropolitan Open\n1906 U.S. Open, Western Open\n1909 Metropolitan Open\n1910 U.S. Open, Metropolitan Open\n1913 Metropolitan Open\n\nMajor championships\nWins (2)\n1Defeated John McDermott and MacDonald Smith in an 18-hole playoff \u2013 A. Smith 71 (\u22122), McDermott 75 (+2) & M. Smith 77 (+4).\n\nResults timeline\nSmith died before the Masters Tournament was founded.\n\nNYF = Tournament not yet founded\nNT = No tournament\nDNP = Did not play\nWD = Withdrew\n\"T\" indicates a tie for a place\nGreen background for wins. Yellow background for top-10\n\nTeam appearances\nFrance\u2013United States Professional Match (representing the United States): 1913\nPassage 7:\nIt Is Never Too Late to Mend (1911 film)\nIt Is Never Too Late to Mend is an Australian feature-length silent film written and directed by W. J. Lincoln. It was based on a stage adaptation of the popular 1865 novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend: A Matter-of-Fact Romance by Charles Reade about the corrupt penal system in Australia. It was called \"certainly one of the best pictures ever taken in Australia.\"The novel has been credited with exposing cruelties in the Australian prison system and having helped end the convict system.It is considered a lost film. It was filmed again in 1913 and in 1937 (the latter film being the definitive version starring Tod Slaughter as the evil squire).The film was made by the Tait family, who also made the first Australian feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang. The Taits went on to make several more films with Lincoln, including The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1911), The Luck of Roaring Camp (1911), Called Back (1911), The Lost Chord (May 1911), The Bells (1911) and The Double Event (1911). This was Lincoln's first film in a rather short career, as he died soon after in 1917 in Sydney, Australia at age 47.\n\nPlot\nThe film begins at Grance Farm in England, rented by Georgie and William Fileing. The farm is struggling and the brothers have to sell their new hay to stave off the landlord. The Honorable Frank Winchester contemplates going abroad and asks George to accompany him. However, George is in love with his cousin, Susan Merton, and does not want to make the trip.\nSusan is also loved by the villainous John Meadows. He refuses to lend money to Georgie and there is an eviction sale on the farm.George Fielding travels to Australia to make enough money to marry Susan. George discovers gold and a bushranger gang tries to rob him but the other miners come to George's rescue.\nThere is a subplot about a thief acquaintance of George, Tom Robinson, who is sent to gaol and suffers brutal treatment at the hands of the guards. Susan is about to marry the evil Meadows but he is unmasked at the wedding by Isaac Levy. The wedding goes ahead with Susan marrying George instead.\nThe film consisted of 60 scenes. It was issued with a summary of the story and featured chapter titles which prepared the audiences for incidents before they happened. It was also often accompanied by a lecturer.\nAccording to The Age \"Interesting phases of early Australian life are revealed, including the fascinating stories of the gold discoveries... in the construction of the story for picture purposes, the salient features of the novel have been retained and a descriptive address accompanies the production.\"\n\nCast\nStanley Walpole\n\nProduction\nStage adaptations of the novel had been popular since 1865.In February 1911 The Bulletin reported that:\n\nThe Taits are going to produce It\u2019s Never Too Late To Mend in biograph drama form at Melbourne Glaeiarium.   \"Willie\" Lincoln, who was an Australian playwright in his youth, and is nowadays running the \"Paradise\" Pictures at St. Kilda, is understood to be responsible for this biograph version of Charles Reade\u2019s drama.   Picture show condensations of familiar stories, also original film dramas of the sort now imported from America and Europe, might as well be locally fixed up.  There\u2019s no better country than Australia for open-air photography, and few that are nearly as good.\nThe film was shot in Melbourne and \"enacted by a specially-selected company of Victorian artists\" who were \"a selected metropolitan company of 60 performers.\" The estimated budget was \u00a3300-\u00a3400.\n\nReception\nBox office\nThe movie debuted at the Olympia Theatre in Haymarket, Sydney in January 1911. A lecturer accompanied screenings and would explain the action that took place.\nThe movie broke box office records at the Olympia. It later drew strong crowds in Melbourne as well.\n\nCritical\nThe Bulletin called it:\n\nAn interesting piece... adapted by W.J. Lincoln for dumb show purposes, and Johnson and Gibson had prepared three or four thousand feet of photographs for reproduction on the screen. The picture promised well for the future of the Australian \"art film\" industry. Theadapter has \"potted\" the novel, rather than the drama of the same name, and done it very well. The actors look their parts and play them dramatically, and the heroine, who is a first consideration and the only girl in the piece, fills the bill quite charmingly. For about an hour   \"It\u2019s Never Too Late To Mend \" kept a packed house interested. A man with a ripe, sonorous voice supplied brief descriptive details, and kept the story in a state of coherency, the only noticeable shortcoming being the absence of a moral tag, to the effect that the conversion of the English thief, Tom Robinson, had been fully completed in The Sunny South.\nThe Sydney Sunday Times said there \"was special performances by a company of Australian actors.\"Melbourne's Table Talk called it \"a most gratifying success in all ways. The pictures are clear and the acting is adequate, while to our ideas it is more natural, for it has not the Gallic mannerisms and excessive gesture noticeable in some of the imported pictorial dramas, which are usually interpreted by French artists.\"The Riverine Herald stated \"the cast was well chosen and well balanced, and the dramatic action of the play was finely brought out.\"The Launceston Examiner said \"in its construction the adapter has endeavoured to retain all the main and most salient features of the novel, allowing for the bridging over of many incidents, to make a natural sequence and clear-cut story.\"The Launceston Daily Telegraph said the novel had been \"exceedingly well adapted by W. J. Lincoln... [a] magnificent pictorial representation, so full of strong human interest\".\n\nUSA Release\nThe film was released in the US in August 1914.\n\nLegacy\nThe box office success of the film encouraged the Tait brothers and Millard and Johnson to appoint Lincoln as the main director for their new company, Amalgamated Pictures, which operated for over a year.\nPassage 8:\nIt's Never Too Late (1953 film)\nIt's Never Too Late (Italian: Non \u00e8 mai troppo tardi) is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Filippo Walter Ratti. The film is based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.\n\nPlot\nAntonio Trabbi is a greedy old man with a very rough personality and obsessed by money. He deprecates charity and love and has no friends or love interest, being lonely and avoided by people. On Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, who warns him about his life-style and announces the visit of three spirits, who will show Antonio past, present and future Christmas days. During the night, the three spirits actually appear to Trabbi, showing him his sad past, the bad reputation he has with everyone and the bad outcome of his actions, which will lead him to a lonely death and to terrible punishments in Hell. When Trabbi wakes up he is greatly distressed by the visions and eager to change his life, starting with that very same Christmas Day.\n\nCast\nPaolo Stoppa as Antonio Trabbi\nGuglielmo Barnab\u00f2\nIsa Barzizza as Rosanna Gennari\nLuigi Batzella (as Gigi Batzella)\nSergio Bergonzelli\nLola Braccini as Antonio's mother\nArturo Bragaglia as L'omino\nEnzo Cerusico as Antonio as child\nOlinto Cristina as Franci\nGiorgio De Lullo as The Strange Man in the Pub\nGiulio Donnini as Orazio Colussi\nAttilio Dottesio as The man who poses the riddle at the party\nLeda Gloria as Anna Colussi\nSusanne L\u00e9vesy as Giulia - Daniele's wife\nEllida Lorini as Rosanna as child\nMarcello Mastroianni as Riccardo\nLeonilde Montesi\nValeria Moriconi as Marta\nLuisa Rivelli\nDaniela Spallotta\nLuigi Tosi as Daniele Trabbi\n\nSee also\nList of Christmas films\nList of ghost films\nAdaptations of A Christmas Carol\nPassage 9:\nAlberto Manzi\nAlberto Manzi (Italian pronunciation: [al\u02c8b\u025brto \u02c8mandzi]; Rome, 3 November 1924 \u2013 Pitigliano, 4 December 1997) was an Italian school teacher, writer and television host, best known for being the art director of Non \u00e8 mai troppo tardi (Italian for It's never too late), an educational TV programme broadcast between 1959 and 1968.\n\nBiography\nHe attended navy studies before ending his primary training high school degree and followed a peculiar path of studies, achieving three academic degrees: in biology, pedagogy and philosophy.\nHe worked as an educator in a teen-age prison in Rome before a full-time job as a primary school teacher.\nHe was chosen to host the TV program Non \u00e8 mai troppo tardi, that made him a celebrity, conceived as an auxiliary help in the social struggle against illiteracy; the show was broadcasting real life primary school classroom lessons, with revolutionary concepts in didactic methods for those times. Several schools in Italy are indeed named after him.\nHe also published several novels the most famous of which is Orzowei (1955), from which a serial was adapted for the Tv dei ragazzi (a now defunct Italian \"Children TV\").\nFrom 1995 to 1997 he was mayor of Pitigliano, in the province of Grosseto, Tuscany.\nPassage 10:\nMichael McCarthy (film director)\nMichael McCarthy (27 February 1917 \u2013 7 May 1959) was a British screenwriter and television and film director. He entered the film industry in 1934 and worked at the Crown Film Unit.He died aged 42, survived by a wife and three children. A Variety obituary said he was \"regarded as a director of considerable promise\".\n\nSelected filmography\nGreek Testament (1943) (documentary) - assistant director\nMy Learned Friend (1943) - assistant director\nSan Demetrio London (1943) - assistant director\nThe Halfway House (1944) - assistant director\nWhile Nero Fiddled (1944) aka Fiddlers Three - assistant director\nThe Girl of the Canal (1945) aka Painted Boats (short feature) - story\nJohnny Frenchman (1945) - unit manager\nFeature Story (1949) (short feature) - director\nNo Highway in the Sky (1951) - actor\nAssassin for Hire (1951) - director\nMystery Junction (1951) - director, writer\nRoad Sense (1951) (instructional film) - director\nHunted (1952) - idea\nCrow Hollow (1952) - director\nWheel of Fate (1953) - actor\nBehind the Headlines (1953) - actor\nForces' Sweetheart (1953) - actor\nFlannelfoot (1953) - actor\nJohn of the Fair (1954) - director, writer\nDouglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents (1954\u201355) - director, writer - including The Awakening (1954)\nShadow of a Man (1955) - director, additional scenes\nThe Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955) - director\nIt's Never Too Late (1956) - director\nAssignment Foreign Legion (1956\u201357) (TV series) - director\nThe Traitor (1957) aka The Accursed - director, writer\nWire Service (1957) (TV series) - director\nSailor of Fortune (1957) (TV series) - director\nOperation Amsterdam (1959) - director, writer", "answers": ["yes"], "length": 3934, "dataset": "2wikimqa_e", "language": "en", "all_classes": null, "_id": "62b8538f15d1af02f2e87a24e7ee549034906c5a870cac97"}/n
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(1) Generate a full and concise reasoning path from the "input" question to the ground truth "answer", using sentences from the "context" to support each step.
(2) For each step in the reasoning path, include one unaltered sentence from the “context” to demonstrate how the information leads to the answer.
(3) Structure the response as a JSON object. Each reasoning step should correspond to one original sentence from the “context”.

Use JSON format with 'step' and 'sentence' for your output.
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      "sentence": "<insert first sentence used from context>"
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Ensure each “sentence” is copied exactly as in the context without any modifications.