Hot Rod Rumble
Hot Rod Rumble is a US, low budget, black-and-white 1957 teen-oriented drag racing crime drama produced by Norman T. Herman and directed by Leslie H. Martinson.
It stars Leigh Snowden and Richard Hartunian.
The film tells the story of a clash within the Road Devils hot rod club when some of its members jump to a wrong conclusion following the accidental death of one of them in a car crash.
"Hot Rot Rumble" was Hartunian's only film.
The film itself spun off a novel and had its soundtrack released on an LP.
Boyd Coddington
Boyd Leon Coddington (August 28, 1944 – February 27, 2008)
was an American hot rod designer, the owner of the Boyd Coddington Hot Rod Shop and star of "American Hot Rod" on TLC.
Jim Warren (drag racer)
Jim Warren is an American Top Fuel Dragster driver.
He won two National Hot Rod Association( NHRA) and two American Hot Rod Association( AHRA) national events.
Robert Hartford-Davis
Robert Hartford-Davis (born William Henry Davis, 23 July 1923 – 12 June 1977) was a British born producer, director and writer, who worked on film and television in both in the United Kingdom and United States.
He is also sometimes credited as Michael Burrowes or Robert Hartford.
Black Gunn
Black Gunn is a 1972 Neo-noir blaxploitation film starring Jim Brown and Martin Landau and directed by Robert Hartford-Davis.
Leslie H. Martinson
Leslie Herbert "Les" Martinson (January 16, 1915 – September 3, 2016) was an American television and film director.
William Hallett Greene
William Hallett Greene or Green( October 1864 May 1942) was the first black member of the U.S. Signal Corps, the first black graduate of City College of New York, and first black meteorologist.
Mattiwilda Dobbs
Mattiwilda Dobbs( July 11, 1925 – December 8, 2015) was an African- American coloratura soprano and one of the first black singers to enjoy a major international career in opera.
She was the first black singer to perform at La Scala in Italy, the first black woman to receive a long- term performance contract at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and the first black singer to play a lead role at the San Francisco Opera.
Hot Rod (rapper)
Rodney Toole (born June 25, 1981) better known by his stage name Hot Rod (formerly Young Hot Rod), is an American recording artist from Phoenix, Arizona.
In 2006, Hot Rod secured a recording contract with New York City-based rapper 50 Cent's G-Unit Records.
In 2010 he was moved to G-Note Records, a subsidiary label of G-Unit Records, which focuses on pop, dance and R&B music.
He is also a poster on the hip-hop forum The Coli.
Arkie Shibley
Jesse Lee Shibley, known as Arkie Shibley( 21 September 1914 – September 1975) was an American country singer who recorded the original version of" Hot Rod Race" in 1950.
The record was important because it introduced automobile racing into popular music and underscored the car's relevance to American culture, particularly youth culture.
Shibley was born in Van Buren, Arkansas.
After relocating he acquired the nickname" Arkie" and, around 1948, began hosting a regular country music show on radio station KBRG in Bremerton, Washington.
Although the writing credit for" Hot Rod Race" is given to George Wilson, this may be Shibley's pseudonym.
He offered the song to 4 Star Records in Los Angeles, but was turned down, and Shibley decided to release the song on his own Mountain Dew label.
The record was credited to" Arkie Shibley and his Mountain Dew Boys", the line- up being Shibley on rhythm guitar, Leon Kelley on lead guitar, Jackie Hayes on bass and banjo, and Phil Fregon on fiddle.
The record became popular and was reissued on 4 Star's Gilt Edge imprint.
Shibley's record raced into the country charts in January 1951, peaking at# 5, with cover versions on major labels by Ramblin' Jimmie Dolan on Capitol, Red Foley on Decca and Tiny Hill on Mercury.
The Hill version also crossed over to the pop charts(# 29).
In 1951 Shibley recorded four sequels to his hit, all performed in a Woody Guthrie- like talking blues style:" Hot Rod Race# 2 Arkie Meets the Judge( Hot Rod Race# 3) The Guy in the Mercury( Hot Rod Race# 4)" and" The Kid in the Model A( Hot Rod Race# 5)".
He subsequently disappeared into obscurity.
He died in Van Buren, Arkansas, in 1975.
" Hot Rod Race" prompted the even more successful answer song" Hot Rod Lincoln", a hit for Charlie Ryan( recorded 1955 and 1959, charted 1960,# 33 pop), Johnny Bond( 1960,# 26 pop) and Commander Cody( 1972,# 9 pop).
Shibley's record also directly influenced Chuck Berry's" Maybellene", Gene Vincent's" Race With The Devil", and the succession of hot rod records by the Beach Boys and others in the early 1960s.

Question: Which film has the director who died first, Black Gunn or Hot Rod Rumble?