The Sundowners (1950 film)
The Sundowners is a 1950 American Technicolor Western film directed by George Templeton.
The film is also known as Thunder in the Dust in the United Kingdom.
The Wild Frontier (film)
The Wild Frontier is a 1947 American Western film directed by Philip Ford and written by Albert DeMond.
The film stars Allan Lane, Jack Holt, Eddy Waller, Pierre Watkin, John James and Roy Barcroft.
The film was released on October 1, 1947, by Republic Pictures.
Chris Hughes (musician)
Christopher Merrick Hughes( born 3 March 1954, London, England), also known as Merrick, is a British music producer, songwriter, and former drummer, acoustic guitarist and keyboards player for Adam and the Ants.
Best known as producer of Tears for Fears'" Songs from the Big Chair", and as the co-writer of" Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Hughes has a joint background as a musician, songwriter and producer.
His career began with Adam and The Ants as drummer and producer of the" Cartrouble" and" Kings of the Wild Frontier" singles, then the" Kings of the Wild Frontier" album.
Yielding three hit singles, the album earned Hughes" Music Week"'s' Producer of the Year Award'.
Fred Zinnemann
Alfred Zinnemann( April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian- born American film director.
He won four Academy Awards for directing films in various genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir and play adaptations.
He made 25 feature films during his 50- year career.
He was among the first directors to insist on using authentic locations and for mixing stars with civilians to give his films more realism.
Within the film industry, he was considered a maverick for taking risks and there by creating unique films, with many of his stories being dramas about lone and principled individuals tested by tragic events.
According to one historian, Zinnemann's style demonstrated his sense of" psychological realism and his apparent determination to make worthwhile pictures that are nevertheless highly entertaining."
Among his films were" The Search"( 1947)," The Men"( 1950)," High Noon"( 1952)," From Here to Eternity"( 1953)," Oklahoma!"( 1955)," The Nun's Story"( 1959)," A Man For All Seasons"( 1966)," The Day of the Jackal"( 1973), and" Julia"( 1977).
His films have received 65 Oscar nominations, winning 24.
Zinnemann directed and introduced a number of stars in their U.S. film debuts, including Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Pier Angeli, Julie Harris, Brandon de Wilde, Montgomery Clift, Shirley Jones and Meryl Streep.
He directed 19 actors to Oscar nominations, including Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Gary Cooper and Maximilian Schell.
The Sundowners (1960 film)
The Sundowners is a 1960 Technicolor film that tells the story of an Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep- herding ways and the wife's and son's desire to settle down in one place.
The film stars Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov, with a supporting cast including Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Michael Anderson Jr., and Chips Rafferty.
The screenplay was adapted by Isobel Lennart from Jon Cleary's novel of the same name; it was produced and directed by Fred Zinnemann.
It falls into the Australian meat pie Western genre.
At the 33rd Academy Awards," The Sundowners" was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role( Deborah Kerr), Best Actress in a Supporting Role( Glynis Johns), Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
Le propre de l'homme
Le Propre de l'homme is a 1960 film directed by Claude Lelouch.
Satan Town
Satan Town is a 1926 American Western film featuring Harry Carey.
Prints of the film have survived.
Mervyn Johns
David Mervyn Johns( 18 February 18996 September 1992) was a Welsh film and television character actor who became a star of British films during World War II.
In the postwar era, he worked frequently at Ealing Studios.
Mervyn Johns started his career in the theatre in the 1920s, and then made his first film in 1935.
Among his dozens of film roles were the church warden in" Went the Day Well?"( 1942), the fearful architect Walter Craig in the mystery film" Dead of Night"( 1945) and Bob Cratchit in" Scrooge"( 1951) with Alastair Sim.
Johns also made many television appearances, in series such as" The Avengers The SaintDanger Man" and" Dixon of Dock Green".
He was known for his" mostly mild- mannered, lugubrious, amusing, sometimes moving' little men'" in over 100 film and television series.
Johns was twice married.
His first wife was the concert pianist Alys Steele.
They had one daughter, the actress Glynis Johns, born in South Africa, with whom he appeared in" The Halfway House"( 1944) and" The Sundowners"( 1960).
After Alys's death in 1970 he married the actress Diana Churchill in 1976.
Wylie Watson
Wylie Watson
( 6 February 1889 – 3 May 1966)( born John Wylie Robertson) was a British actor.
Among his best- known roles were those of" Mr Memory", an amazing man who commits" 50 new facts to his memory every day" in Alfred Hitchcock's film" The 39 Steps"( 1935), and wily storekeeper Joseph Macroon in the Ealing comedy" Whisky Galore!"( 1949).
He emigrated to Australia in 1952, and made his final film appearance there in" The Sundowners"( 1960).
Philip Ford (film director)
Philip Ford( October 16, 1900 – January 12, 1976) was an American film director and actor.
He directed 43 films between 1945 and 1964.
He also appeared 16 in films between 1916 and 1926.
He was the son of actor/ director Francis Ford and the nephew of director John Ford.
He was born with the family name Feeney in Portland, Maine, and only later took on the family name of" Ford" after his father and uncle had.
He died in Los Angeles, California.

Question: Do both films, The Wild Frontier (Film) and The Sundowners (1960 Film), have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: yes