Aloma of the South Seas (1941 film)
Aloma of the South Seas is a 1941 American romantic adventure drama film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall.
The film was shot in Technicolor and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
" Aloma of the South Seas" is based on the 1925 Broadway play of the same name by LeRoy Clemens and John B. Hymer.
It is a remake of the 1926 silent film of the same name.
Lamour and Hall were the reigning darlings of south sea island adventures of this era having starred in John Ford's" The HurricaneAloma of the South Seas" fits into the romance adventure canon of which Lamour and Hall excelled at.
Roger Christian (filmmaker)
Roger Christian( born 25 February 1944) is an English set decorator, production designer and feature film director.
He won an Academy Award for his work on the original" Star Wars" and was Oscar- nominated for his work on" Alien".
Christian directed the second unit on both" Return of the Jedi" and as well as feature films including" The Sender" and" Nostradamus".
He also directed the 2000 film" Battlefield Earth" which is regarded as one of the worst films ever made, but is now considered a" so bad it's good" type of cult film.
Hassan Zee
Hassan Zee is a Pakistani- American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan.
F. W. Murnau
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe
; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director.
He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt.
During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air force, surviving several crashes without any severe injuries.
One of Murnau's acclaimed works is the 1922 film "Nosferatu", an adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula".
Although not a commercial success, owing to copyright issues with Stoker's novel, the film is considered a masterpiece of German Expressionist cinema.
He later directed the 1924 film "The Last Laugh", as well as a 1926 interpretation of Goethe's "Faust".
He later emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined the Fox Studio and made three films:  (1927), "4 Devils" (1928) and "City Girl" (1930). "
Sunrise" has been regarded by critics and film directors as among the best films ever made.
In 1931, Murnau travelled to Bora Bora to make the film  (1931) with documentary film pioneer Robert J. Flaherty, who left after artistic disputes with Murnau, who had to finish the movie on his own.
A week prior to the opening of the film "Tabu", Murnau died in a Santa Barbara hospital from injuries he had sustained in an automobile accident that occurred along the Pacific Coast Highway near Rincon Beach, southeast of Santa Barbara.
Of the 21 films Murnau directed, eight are considered to be completely lost.
One reel of his feature "Marizza, genannt die Schmuggler-Madonna" survives.
This leaves only 12 films surviving in their entirety.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Frederick O'Brien
Frederick O'Brien( 1869- 1932) was an American author, journalist, hobo, peripatetic world traveler, and public administrator.
He wrote three best- selling travel books about French Polynesia between 1919 and 1922:" White Shadows in the South Seas, Mystic Isles of the South Seas," and" Atolls of the Sun."
A movie was made in 1928 of" White Shadows in the South Seas".
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, sometimes simply called Tabu, is a 1931 silent film directed by F. W. Murnau, a docufiction.
The film is split into two chapters.
The first, called" Paradise", depicts the lives of two lovers on a South Seas island until they are forced to escape the island when the girl is chosen as a holy maid to the gods.
The second chapter," Paradise Lost", depicts the couple's life on a colonised island and how they adapt to and are exploited by Western civilisation.
The title of the film comes from the Polynesian concept of" tapu"( spelled" tabu" in Tongan before 1943), from which is derived the English word" taboo."
The film's story was written by Robert J. Flaherty and F. W. Murnau; with the exception of the opening scene, the film was directed solely by Murnau.
This was his last film; he died in the hospital after an automobile accident on March 11, 1931, a week before the film's premiere in New York City.
Cinematographer Floyd Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on this film.
In 1994," Tabu: A Story of the South Seas" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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.
Joseph & Mary
Joseph& Mary is a 2016 biblical drama film directed by Roger Christian and starring Kevin Sorbo as Joseph.
It portrays the birth and early life of Jesus under the rule of King Herod the Great of the Roman Empire in the 1st century and includes an allegory about forgiveness involving the rabbi Elijah, a fictional character invented for the film.
Joseph M. Marling
Joseph Mary Marling, CPPS (August 31, 1904 – October 2, 1979) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
He served as Bishop of Jefferson City from 1956 to 1969.

Question: Which film has the director who was born first, Joseph & Mary or Tabu: A Story Of The South Seas?
Answer: Tabu: A Story Of The South Seas