Boston Blackie's Rendezvous
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".
Confessions of Boston Blackie
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).
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
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.
Don Scardino
Don Scardino( born February 17, 1949) is an American television director and producer and a former actor.
Seymour Friedman
Seymour Friedman( August 17, 1917 – April 2, 2003) was an American film director.
He later worked as a production manager in television.
Friedman began his career as an assistant director, before enlisting for military service following America's entry into World War II.
He directed his first film," Trapped by Boston Blackie", in 1948.
Like many of the other films he directed, it was a low- budget series film.
In the early 1950s, Friedman went to Britain to make a couple of films, before returning to Hollywood.
He directed his last film in 1956, and switched to working entirely in television.
Boston Blackie and the Law
Boston Blackie and the Law is the twelfth of fourteen Columbia Pictures films starring Chester Morris as reformed crook Boston Blackie.
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture is a 1949 mystery film directed by Seymour Friedman, starring Chester Morris, in this film, the last of Columbia's "Boston Blackie" fourteen pictures (1941–49).
Richard Lane, who plays Boston's long-suffering Inspector Farraday, was the only other character in all fourteen of the Boston Blackie films.
George E. Stone, playing Blackie's sidekick, his dim-witted crony The Runt, was not in the first or last film but was in all the others.
Charles Wagenheim played The Runt in the first film and Sid Tomack in the last.
A Close Call for Boston Blackie
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
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.
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Don Scardino and written by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, based on a story by Chad Kultgen and Tyler Mitchell, and Daley and Goldstein.
The film follows Las Vegas magician Burt Wonderstone( Steve Carell) as he attempts to reunite with his former partner Anton Marvelton( Steve Buscemi) to take on dangerous street magician Steve Gray( Jim Carrey).
It also features Alan Arkin, Olivia Wilde, and James Gandolfini.
The film began development in 2006, when New Line Cinema bought Kultgen's script," Burt Dickenson: The Most Powerful Magician on Planet Earth".
The development process gained momentum when Charles McDougall was hired as director in 2011, but he eventually left the project and was replaced with Scardino.
Daley and Goldstein rewrote Kultgen's script which then saw further rewrites from Jason Reitman in June 2011.
Filming was scheduled to begin in October 2011 in Los Angeles, California, but was pushed back to January 2012.
On a$ 30 million budget, filming began on January 10, 2012 in Nevada with filming later moving to Los Angeles.
" The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" was released on March 15, 2013, and earned over$ 27 million.
Reviews generally praised Carrey's and Arkin's performances, but criticized the plot's inconsistent tone and predictability.
" Variety" magazine listed" The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" as one of" Hollywood's biggest box office bombs of 2013" when it had made$ 27.4 million against a$ 30 million production cost.

Question: Which film whose director was born first, Boston Blackie'S Chinese Venture or The Incredible Burt Wonderstone?