The Prisoner of Corbal
The Prisoner of Corbal is a 1936 British historical drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Nils Asther, Hugh Sinclair and Hazel Terry.
It is also known by the alternative title The Marriage of Corbal.
It is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution.
The film was made at Elstree Studios as an independent production which was released by General Film Distributors.
The film is based on the 1927 novel" The Nuptials of Corbal" by Rafael Sabatini.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952 film)
The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1952 film version of the classic novel of the same name by Anthony Hope and a remake of the famous 1937 film version and the 1922 silent version as well.
This version was made by Loew's and Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer, directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman.
The screenplay, attributed to Noel Langley, was nearly word- for- word identical to the one used in the 1937 Ronald Colman version, which was by John L. Balderston, adapted by Wells Root, from the Hope novel and the stage play by Edward Rose, with additional dialogue by Donald Ogden Stewart.
The film stars Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, and James Mason( with Louis Calhern, Robert Douglas, Jane Greer and Robert Coote).
Alfred Newman's 1937 music score was adapted by Conrad Salinger, since Newman was unavailable to work on the film; and the cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg.
The art direction was by Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters and the costume design by Walter Plunkett.
The silent film versions," The Prisoner of Zenda"( 1913) starred James K. Hackett and Beatrice Beckly and" The Prisoner of Zenda"( 1922) starred Lewis Stone and Alice Terry.
A comedy version" The Prisoner of Zenda"( 1979) starred Peter Sellers and Lynne Frederick.
Karl Grune
Karl Grune (22 January 1890 – 2 October 1962) was an Austrian film director and writer who made many silent films in the 1920s.
Grune was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, where he later attended drama school.
He volunteered in the First World War, where an injury temporarily deprived him of the ability to speak in 1918.
After the war he made his directing debut in 1919 with "Menschen in KettenPeople in Chains").
In 1923 he made "Schlagende Wetter" with Liane Haid and Eugen Klöpfer in the leading roles.
The film is a notable early example of naturalism in film making, at a time when expressionism was the norm.
Also that year he made "Die StraßeThe Street"), which is considered Grune's most notable film.
In 1926 he made "Die Brüder SchellenbergThe Brothers Schellenberg") with Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover.
Many of his early films are now lost.
He emigrated to England in 1933 and there made "Abdul the Damned" with Fritz Kortner in 1935, and in 1936 he filmed Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci with Richard Tauber.
In his later career he turned to producing films in the 1940s.
He died in Bournemouth, England in 1962.
The Prisoner of the Iron Mask
The Prisoner of the Iron Mask is a 1962 Italian- French swashbuckler film.
It was directed by Francesco De Feo.
John McMahon (Surrey and Somerset cricketer)
John William Joseph McMahon( 28 December 1917 – 8 May 2001) was an Australian- born first- class cricketer who played for Surrey and Somerset in England from 1947 to 1957.
Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar
Sandow Marudur Marudachalamurthy Ayyavoo Chinnappa Devar( 28 June 1915 – 8 September 1978) was an eminent producer of Tamil films in the mid-1950s through the 1960s and 1970s.
He is best known for his films featuring animals, and has produced numerous movies with M. G. Ramachandran as lead actor( 16 movies with under his famous banner: Devar Films).
He launched all his movies under the" Devar Films", which also produced the Rajesh Khanna's Bollywood hit Haathi Mere Saathi( 1971) in which he achieved national fame and" Dhandayupathi Films" banner.
The title of" Sandow" was given to Chinnappa Thevar in tribute( to the father of the modern bodybuilding, Eugen Sandow) and because of his impressive muscles.
Thaai Sollai Thattadhe
Thaai Sollai
Thattadhe is a 1961 Indian Tamil- language drama film directed by M. A. Thirumugam.
The film features M. G. Ramachandran and B. Saroja Devi in lead roles.
The film, produced by Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar, had a musical score by K. V. Mahadevan in which the background sound effects for fighting scenes were effectively composed.
The film was released on the occasion of Diwali 1961 and was a commercial success, running for 140 days in theatres.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Hartley Lobban
Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s.

Question: Which film whose director was born first, Thaai Sollai Thattadhe or The Prisoner Of Corbal?