Road to the Big House
Road to the Big House is a 1947 American crime drama film directed by Walter Colmes.
It was based on a script by Aubrey Wisberg.
It was also known as" The Dark Road".
Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa( Rome, January 2, 1905 – Rome, August 16, 1991) was an Italian film- maker.
Rebecca Brewton Motte
Rebecca Brewton Motte( 1737–1815) was a plantation owner in South Carolina and townhouse owner in its chief city of Charleston.
She was known as a patriot in the American Revolution, supplying continental forces with food and supplies for five years.
By the end of the war, she had become one of the wealthiest individuals in the state, having inherited property from both her older brother Miles Brewton, who was lost at sea in 1775, and her husband Jacob Motte, who died in 1780.
In 1780 Motte left Charleston after the British occupied it, living with her family at the Mt. Joseph plantation about 95 miles away, along the Congaree River.
It became known as Fort Motte after the British occupied and fortified it; she moved with her family from the big house to the overseer's house.
To help patriots take over the property, she agreed to have the big house burned down.
Mutiny in the Big House
Mutiny in the Big House is a 1939 American film directed by William Nigh.
George Howe Colt
George Howe
Colt is an American journalist and author.
He is the author of( 1991)," The Big House"( 2003)," Brothers"( 2012), and" The Game"( 2018).
He is married to author Anne Fadiman.
Colt was a staff writer for" Life".
His 2003 book about his last summer with his family at their summer house on Cape Cod," The Big House", was a finalist for the National Book Award.
He graduated from Harvard University.
Roaring Years
Roaring Years is a 1962 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa, set in the 1930s during the Fascist period of Benito Mussolini.
It stars Nino Manfredi and Gino Cervi, and was inspired by the satirical comedy" The Government Inspector ” by Nikolai Gogol.
It won Best Feature at the 1962 Locarno International Film Festival.
Marion Gering
Marion Gering( June 9, 1901 in Rostov- on- Don – April 19, 1977 in New York City) was a Russian- born American stage producer and director.
He moved to the United States in 1924 as a member of a Soviet trade commission in trading Siberian furs.
He became involved in the theatrical community in Chicago, founding the Chicago Play Producing Company.
His production of Georg Kaiser's" Gas", which was presented at the Goodman Theatre on January 28, 1926, was particularly successful.
In 1927 he began producing plays in New York City, and married actress Dorothy Libaire in 1930.
Gering became a Hollywood film director for Paramount Pictures in 1931, directing Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard in" I Take This Woman" on his debut.
In 1932 he directed Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, and a young Cary Grant in" Devil and the Deep".
He collaborated several times with producer Albert Lewis, producing films together like" Ready for Love" and later stage productions like" The Walking Gentleman" at the Playhouse Theatre.
In 1935 he directed George Raft and Carole Lombard in the film" Rumba", inspired by the success of" Bolero" the previous year, but it was n't as successful.
Gering's stint with Paramount came to an end in 1936, and he then joined Columbia Pictures between 1937 and 1939, and directed the 1937 British picture" Thunder in the City" for the Atlantic Film Company.
His film career came to a halt by the end of the decade.
He tried in the subsequent period, albeit in vain, to build on his previous accomplishments as a theatre producer and to pursue film directing in Europe.
Between 1947 and 1949 he attempted to relaunch his film career in Cuba but with little success.
In 1950 he briefly returned to film directing Michael Whalen, Doris Dowling and Tommy Wonder in the musical drama" Sarumba".
He later reportedly worked as a technical assistant and caretaker in colleges.
He directed the sexploitation film" Violated Paradise"( 1963).
Ladies of the Big House
Ladies of the Big House is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Marion Gering and written by Ernest Booth, William Slavens McNutt and Grover Jones.
The film stars Sylvia Sidney, Gene Raymond, Wynne Gibson, Earle Foxe, Rockliffe Fellowes, Purnell Pratt and Frank Sheridan.
The film was released on December 26, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.
Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners".
Big House Blues
Big House Blues is a 1947 Color Rhapsodies short film.

Question: Which film has the director who died first, Roaring Years or Ladies Of The Big House?
Answer: Ladies Of The Big House