Howard Higgin
Howard Higgin (February 15, 1891 - December 16, 1938) was an American writer and director of motion pictures in the 1920s and 1930s.
Higgin was production manager on Cecil De Mille's "Forbidden Fruit"(1921).Higgin's first directing job was a 1922 comedy for legendary Wallace Reid, "Rent Free".
His later films include "High Voltage" and "Skyscraper", and he worked with Wallace Beery, Clark Gable (as writer/director of Gable's screen breakthrough role as the unshaven villain in "The Painted Desert"), Carole Lombard, Bette Davis (in "Hell's House"), Pat O'Brien, Alan Hale, Sr., Blanche Sweet, Basil Rathbone, Robert Armstrong and Mae Clarke, among many others.
Higgins' movie career spanned 18 years, having begun working on film crews in 1919.
He died in Los Angeles at age 47.
The Kingdom of Twilight
The Kingdom of Twilight is a 1929 film directed by British author and explorer Alexander MacDonald.
The Crimson Circle (1929 film)
The Crimson Circle is a 1929 British- German crime film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Fred Louis Lerch, and Stewart Rome.
The film, a co-production between British International Pictures and Efzet Film, was made in both a silent version and a sound version filmed in the Phonofilm sound- on- film system.
In March 1929, this film and" The Clue of the New Pin", filmed in the British Phototone sound- on- disc process, were previewed in London.
The film is an adaptation of the Edgar Wallace novel" The Crimson Circle" in which Scotland Yard detectives battle a gang of blackmailers.
A previous UK version was filmed in 1922.
Clue of the Twisted Candle
Clue of the Twisted Candle is a 1960 British crime film directed by Allan Davis and starring Bernard Lee, David Knight and Francis De Wolff.
Part of the long- running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on the 1918 novel" The Clue of the Twisted Candle".
The Clue of the New Pin (1961 film)
The Clue of the New Pin( 1961) is a British crime film directed by Allan Davis and starring Paul Daneman, Bernard Archard and James Villiers.
It was one of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries, British second- features, produced at Merton Park Studios in the 1960s.
This film is an adaptation of the 1923 novel" The Clue of the New Pin" by Edgar Wallace, which was also made into a film in 1929.
Hell's House
Hell's House is a 1932 American Pre -Code drama film starring Junior Durkin, featuring Bette Davis and directed by Howard Higgin.
The screenplay by Paul Gangelin and B. Harrison Orkow, set during the waning days of the Prohibition era, is based on a story by Higgin.
Arthur Maude
Arthur John Maude (23 July 1880 – 9 January 1950) was an English actor, screenwriter, and film director.
Hell House (film)
Hell House is a 2002 documentary that was directed by George Ratliff that focuses on the idea of a hell house, a Christian- themed haunted attraction, in Cedar Hill, Texas.
The film follows the youth group of the Cedar Hill Trinity Church, documenting the work involved in creating the hell house, the performances themselves, and the personal lives of some of the participants.
The Clue of the Lost Handkerchief
The Clue of the Last Handkerchief is a 1913 Australian film.
It was a detective film.
The film was previewed in Sydney in August 1913.
The Clue of the New Pin (1929 film)
The Clue of the New Pin is a 1929 British crime film directed by Arthur Maude and starring Benita Hume, Kim Peacock, and Donald Calthrop.
It was made at Beaconsfield Studios.
The film was one of only 10 filmed in British Phototone, a sound- on- disc system which used 12- inch discs.
All of the other nine films made in this process were short films.
In March 1929, this film and" The Crimson Circle", filmed in the DeForest Phonofilm sound- on- film system, were' trade- shown' to cinema exhibitors.
This film is an adaptation of the 1923 novel" The Clue of the New Pin" by Edgar Wallace.
It was later remade in 1961.

Question: Which film has the director died first, The Clue Of The New Pin (1929 Film) or Hell'S House?