Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
In the Mood (film)
In the Mood( also known as" The Woo Woo Kid") is a 1987 American comedy film written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson.
The film is based on the true story of Sonny Wisecarver.
Set in the 1940s, the feature stars Patrick Dempsey, Beverly D'Angelo, Michael Constantine, Betty Jinnette, Kathleen Freeman and Peter Hobbs.
The film opened on September 16, 1987 in New York City and on September 18, 1987 in Los Angeles, California and Toronto, Canada.
When the movie expanded to 361 screens on October 16, 1987, it took in$ 315,000 in its first three days of wider release.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
S. S. Millard
Sam S. Millard( also known as Elid Stanch) was a filmmaker of the 1920s through the 1950s and 1960s.
Nicknamed" Steamship", he was one of the Forty Thieves of exploiters.
Considered an early father of the roadshow- style exploitation film circuit, his film productions and presentations laid the groundwork for a number of later exploitation films.
Millard's actual date and place of birth is unknown, but it is believed he is of Romanian descent, and was once able to pass off as Romanian nobility to a former Romanian queen.
While a financially successful individual, he often gave an appearance of a man who struggled to make ends meet.
David F. Friedman, an exploitation filmmaker and presenter who worked with Millard in the 1940s and 1950s, described Millard's appearance at a meeting as someone who" did not project an aura of prosperity," with a wrinkled suit and dirty shirt.
He gained a reputation for huckstering and making every last dollar he could from his distributors and film buyers, which gained him both respect and resentment from his peers.
Millard mainly dealt in what would now be called exploitation filmmaking.
Like most of the genre's films of the time, Millard's movies were typically compilations of other controversial short films, stock footage, and medical reels.
Millard spent his professional career producing and presenting these films around the United States.
In one of Millard's most noteworthy presentations, Millard was forced to retitle his film" Is Your Daughter Safe?" to" The Octopus" in order to meet the demands of San Diego city officials who found the title objectionable.
The film, which was a compilation of footage that was, in some cases, nearly fifteen years old, included medical footage of venereal diseases and stock footage depicting white slavery.
( It is believed that nearly all of Millard's films were compilations of this type.)
The film was described by" Variety" as" possibly the strongest and most dangerous" film of its kind at that point, but it still passed the standards of a group coordinated by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America's Jason Joy, with the group initially stating that the movie taught" a very splendid lesson and that every girl over sixteen years of age ought to be compelled to see it."
The MPPDA, surprised at the lack of a condemnation, was eventually successful in gaining the condemnations from various women's groups and succeeded in withdrawing the film from a number of theaters in the northwestern United States, paving the way for further challenges to the genre.
Another story, which was passed along by Friedman, involved Millard shamelessly tricking fellow exploiter Isadore Lazarus into paying Millard$ 2500 for an unproduced print, and then charging nearly an extra thousand for the finished product.
Millard spent time in San Quentin State Prison, and also had a felony incarceration in Detroit, Michigan in the 1920s, as reported in" Variety" in 1927 and 1928.
The magazine, which was traditionally hostile against the exploitation circuit at the time, used the felony stories as well as the revealing of Millard's real name as evidence against him and his productions.
Millard's son, Nick, is also a director, having produced a number of B-movies during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Phil Alden Robinson
Phil Alden Robinson( born March 1, 1950) is an American film director and screenwriter whose films include" Field of DreamsSneakers", and" The Sum of All Fears".
Is Your Daughter Safe?
Is Your Daughter Safe?, also known as The Octopus, was an early silent exploitation film produced and directed by S. S. Millard.
Written by Max Abramson, it was originally released in 1927 and presented around the United States in the following years.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.

Question: Do director of film Is Your Daughter Safe? and director of film In the Mood (film) have the same nationality?
Answer: yes