Edward Black (producer)
Edward Black( 18 August 1900, Birmingham- 30 November 1948, London) was a British film producer, best known for being head of production at Gainsborough Studios in the late 1930s and early 1940s, during which time he oversaw production of the Gainsborough melodramas.
He also produced such classic films as" The Lady Vanishes"( 1938).
Black has been called" one of the unsung heroes of the British film industry."
The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave.
Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder based on the 1936 novel" The Wheel Spins" by Ethel Lina White, the film is about a beautiful English tourist travelling by train in continental Europe who discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to have disappeared from the train.
After her fellow passengers deny ever having seen the elderly lady, the young woman is helped by a young musicologist, the two proceeding to search the train for clues to the old lady's disappearance.
" The Lady Vanishes" was filmed in the Gainsborough Studios at Islington, London.
Hitchcock caught Hollywood's attention with the film and relocated to Hollywood soon after its release.
Although the director's three previous efforts had done poorly at the box office," The Lady Vanishes" was widely successful, and confirmed American producer David O. Selznick's belief that Hitchcock indeed had a future in Hollywood cinema.
The British Film Institute ranked" The Lady Vanishes" the 35th best British film of the 20th century.
In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for" Time Out" magazine saw it ranked the 31st best British film ever.
Having remained one of Hitchcock's most renowned British films, a remake( also titled" The Lady Vanishes") was released in 1979, and in March 2013 the BBC broadcast a TV adaptation starring Tuppence Middleton as Iris.
Bill Kenwright has adapted the 1938 film to a stage version which will be on a national tour in 2019.
The play stars husband and wife Juliet Mills and Maxwell Caulfield and Lorna Fitzgerald.
Margaret Lockwood
Margaret Lockwood, CBE( 15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990), was an English actress.
One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included" The Lady Vanishes"( 1938)," Night Train to Munich"( 1940)," The Man in Grey"( 1943), and" The Wicked Lady"( 1945).
She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for the 1955 film" Cast a Dark Shadow".
She also starred in the television series" Justice"( 1971 – 74)
Lino Brocka
Catalino Ortiz Brocka( April 3, 1939 – May 22, 1991) was a Filipino film director.
He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and significant Filipino filmmakers in the history of Philippine cinema.
He co-founded the organization Concerned Artists of the Philippines( CAP), dedicated to helping artists address issues confronting the country, and the Free the Artist Movement and was a member of the Coalition for the Restoration of Democracy.
He directed landmark films such as" Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang"( 1974)," Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag"( 1975)," Insiang"( 1976),( 1984), and" Orapronobis"( 1989).
After his death in a car accident in 1991, he was posthumously given the National Artist of the Philippines for Film award for" having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts."
Ethel Lina White
Ethel Lina White( 2 April 1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel" The Wheel Spins"( 1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film," The Lady Vanishes"( 1938), was based.
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock,( 13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Known as" the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology" Alfred Hitchcock Presents"( 1955 – 1965).
His films garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and six wins.
Born in Leytonstone, Essex, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph- cable company.
He made his directorial debut with the silent film" The Pleasure Garden"( 1925).
His first successful film,( 1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film," Blackmail", was the first British.
Two of his 1930s thrillers," The 39 Steps"( 1935) and" The Lady Vanishes"( 1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century.
By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood.
A string of successful films followed, including" Rebecca"( 1940)," Foreign Correspondent"( 1940)," Suspicion"( 1941)," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943), and" Notorious"( 1946).
" Rebecca" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director; he was also nominated for" Lifeboat"( 1944) and" Spellbound"( 1945), although he never won the Best Director Academy Award.
The" Hitchcockian" style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs, and framing shots to maximise anxiety and fear.
The film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film" is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot.
A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."
After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with" Strangers on a Train"( 1951) and" Dial M For Murder"( 1954).
By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time:" Rear Window"( 1954)," Vertigo"( 1958)," North by Northwest"( 1959), and" Psycho"( 1960) with the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations.
In 2012," Vertigo" replaced Orson Welles's" Citizen Kane"( 1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world- wide poll of hundreds of film critics.
By 2018 eight of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943).
He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979 and was knighted in December that year, four months before he died.
Jenny Runacre
Jenny Runacre( born 18 August 1946) is a South African- born English actress.
Her film appearances include" The Passenger"( 1975)," The Duellists"( 1977)," Jubilee"( 1978)," The Lady Vanishes"( 1979), and" The Witches"( 1990).
Gumapang Ka sa Lusak
Gumapang Ka sa Lusak is a 1990 Filipino drama film directed by Lino Brocka.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Dina Bonnevie
Geraldine Schaer Bonnevie known as Dina Bonnevie( born January 27, 1961) is an award- winning actress in the Philippines.
Before joining Philippine showbiz, Ms D( as she is popularly called) was first- runner in the Miss Magnolia 1979 Beauty Contest.
She landed her first acting assignment in the campy" Temptation Island" in 1979 with Joey Gosingfiao at the helm.
However, the following year, Regal Films launched her to lead star status via Joey Gosingfiao's" Katorse" opposite then boyfriend, Alfie Anido.
The same film introduced a young Gabby Concepcion who essayed the role of a naughty brat of a man.
In 1981, while doing" Age Does n't Matter" with fellow Regal babies, Maricel Soriano and Snooky Serna and the wacky Tito, Vic& Joey, she fell in love with Vic Sotto.
The following years, she went into semi-retirement by focusing on her domestic life, but seen on television via the sitcom" 2+ 2= Gulo" with then husband, Vic Sotto and supported by Maricel Soriano and William Martinez, plus a young Herbert Bautista.
In 1985, Viva Films assigned her the role of a young disturbed woman via" Tinik sa Dibdib" with Nora Aunor in the lead.
She took home the FAMAS and FAP best- supporting actress statuettes.
In 1986 she snagged her string of best actress trophies from the CMMA, FAMAS and FAP for “ Magdusa Ka! ”( Suffer!).
In the said movie, she essayed the role of Christine, a young woman disowned by her mother, Toyang( Nida Blanca) after getting impregnated by boyfriend, Rod( Christopher de Leon).
She ran away from Rod after frequent misunderstandings with her drunkard mother- in- law, Metring( Perla Bautista).
She sought refuge from her rich but lameduck father, Bernardo( Dindo Fernando) but is sent away by her aristocratic grandmother Doña Perla( Armida Siguion Reyna).
She asked the help of her best friend Violy( Jobelle Salvador) but was mistreated by the latter's mother( Angie Ferro).
Christine after all the tribulations managed to stand up and healing followed.
Her Viva Films assignments were" Sana'y Wala ng Wakas"( 1986)," Alabok sa Ulap"( 1987)," Ang Lahat ng Ito Pati ang Langit"( 1989)," Ang Babaing Nawawala sa Sarili"( 1990);" Kung Kasalanan Man"( 1990)," Gumapang ka sa Lusak( 1990) among others.
Her acting nominations followed in 1987" Maging Akin Ka Lamang"( Be Mine), 1988 in “ Huwag Mong Itanong Kung Bakit ”( Dont Ask), 1990 in" Gumapang Ka Sa Lusak"( Dirty Affair), and 2004 “ Bridal Shower ”.

Question: Do both films, Gumapang Ka Sa Lusak and The Lady Vanishes, have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: no