Rafael Gil
Rafael Gil( 22 May 1913 – 10 July 1986) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.
His film" La guerra de Dios"( 1953) won the Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1953 and also won best film and best director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
His film" La noche del sábado"( 1950) was nominated for the Gold Lion at the 1950 Venice Film Festival and his film" El beso de Judas"( 1954) was also nominated for the Gold Lion at the 1954 festival in Venice.
His film" Let's Make the Impossible!"( 1958) was nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
He has won nine prizes of the National Syndicate of Spectacle of Spain.
Gil was a prominent director of the Franco era.
His later works, often in collaboration with the Pro-Franco screenwriter and novelist Fernando Vizcaíno Casas, looked back nostalgically to the years of Franco's rule.
Eugene Frenke
Eugene Frenke( 1 January 1895- 10 March 1984) was a Russian- born film producer, director and writer.
He twice collaborated with the director John Huston on the films" Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" and" The Barbarian and the Geisha".
He was married to fellow Ukrainian, actress Anna Sten, from 1932 until his death in 1984.
She appeared in a number of his films.
The Great Galeoto
The Great Galeoto( Spanish: El gran Galeoto) is a 1951 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Ana Mariscal and Rafael Durán.
Charles Shaw (writer)
Charles Herbert Shaw( 10 August 1900 – 1 August 1955) was an Australian journalist and novelist.
Shaw was born in South Melbourne, Victoria.
During the Depression years he held a variety of jobs in the countryside and his interest in writing led him to work at a newspaper in Forbes, New South Wales.
Shaw had several stories published by" The Bulletin" and eventually was employed by the magazine as a rural editor.
He had two collections of Outback short stories" Outback Occupations"( 1943) and" A Sheaf of Shorts"( 1944) and one volume of verse" The Warrumbungle Mare"( 1943) published as well as two detective stories" The Green Token"( 1943) and" Treasure of the Hills"( 1944).
Shaw decided after several rejections that no one outside Australia had an interest in stories about the Outback.
He wrote a novel" Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison", published in 1952, about a U.S. Marine and a nun on a Japanese- held Pacific island.
It was adapted for the screen as a 1957 film by John Huston and John Lee Mahin.
The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium in 1957.
Shaw wrote a series of four detective novels about Dennis Delaney under the nom de plume of" Bant Singer", named after his favourite car, a Singer Bantam.
He died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Sydney on 1 August 1955.
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.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1957 DeLuxe Color, a CinemaScope film which tells the story of two people stranded on a Japanese- occupied island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
The movie was adapted by John Huston and John Lee Mahin from the novel by Charles Shaw and directed by Huston.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role( Deborah Kerr) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
The movie was filmed on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
Producer Eugene Frenke later filmed a low- budget variation on the story," The Nun and the Sergeant"( 1962), starring Frenke's wife Anna Sten.
The Nun and the Sergeant
The Nun and the Sergeant is a 1962 Korean War drama starring Anna Sten and Robert Webber in the title roles.
It was produced by Sten's husband Eugene Frenke, who had produced" Heaven Knows, Mr Allison", also a pairing of a Catholic nun and a U.S. Marine.
It was directed by Franklin Adreon and released through United Artists.
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.
John Huston
John Marcellus Huston( August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist.
Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced U.S. citizenship to become an Irish citizen and resident.
He returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life.
He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics:" The Maltese Falcon"( 1941)," The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"( 1948)," The Asphalt Jungle"( 1950)," The African Queen"( 1951)," The Misfits"( 1961)," Fat City"( 1972)," The Man Who Would Be King"( 1975) and" Prizzi's Honor"( 1986).
During his 46- year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins.
Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years.
He explored the visual aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting.
While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, with little editing needed.
Some of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting an" heroic quest," as in" Moby Dick", or" The Red Badge of Courage".
In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming" destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension.
Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, and war.
Huston has been referred to as" a titana rebel", and a" renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry.
Author Ian Freer describes him as" cinema's Ernest Hemingway" — a filmmaker who was" never afraid to tackle tough issues head on."

Question: Which film whose director was born first, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison or The Great Galeoto?
Answer: Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison