Der Hexer (1964 film)
Der Hexer( aka The Ringer," The Wizard" or" The Mysterious Magician") is a 1964 West German black and white mystery film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Joachim Fuchsberger.
It was part of a very successful series of German films based on the writings of Edgar Wallace and adapted from the 1925 novel titled" The Ringer"( originally:" The Gaunt Stranger").
In 1965, a sequel" Neues vom HexerAgain the Ringer") was released.
Walter Forde
Walter Forde( born Thomas Seymour Woolford, 21 April 1898 – 7 January 1984) was a British actor, screenwriter and director.
Born in Lambeth, South London in 1898, he directed over fifty films between 1919 from the silent era through to 1949 in the sound era He died in Los Angeles, California in 1984.
The Ringer (1931 film)
The Ringer is a 1931 British crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Patric Curwen, Esmond Knight, John Longden and Carol Goodner.
Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
The film was based on an Edgar Wallace story" The Gaunt Stranger", which is the basis for his play" The Ringer".
Forde remade the same story in 1938 as" The Gaunt Stranger".
There was also a silent film of" The Ringer" in 1928, and a 1952 version starring Donald Wolfit.
It was made at Beaconsfield Studios.
The Gaunt Stranger
The Gaunt Stranger( released as The Phantom Strikes in the US) is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde.
It stars Sonnie Hale, Wilfrid Lawson and Alexander Knox.
The Ringer (1928 film)
The Ringer is a 1928 British silent crime film directed by Arthur Maude and starring Leslie Faber, Annette Benson and Hayford Hobbs.
It was based on the Edgar Wallace novel" The Gaunt Stranger".
Scotland Yard hunt for a dangerous criminal who has returned to Britain after many years away.
A talkie version of" The Ringer" followed in 1931.
Virgin Island (film)
Virgin Island is a 1958 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring John Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell and Sidney Poitier.
It is an adaptation of the memoir" Our Virgin Island" by Robb White and was filmed on the British Virgin Islands.
The American release in 1960 followed the title of the novel.
Pat Jackson
Patrick Douglas Selmes Jackson( 26 March 1916 – 3 June 2011) was an English film and television director.
Born in Eltham, to a formerly affluent family which was severely affected by the Wall Street Crash in 1929, and his father's long- term illness and early death ending Jackson's formal education.
He joined the GPO Film Unit on his 17th birthday as a messenger boy after his mother persuaded her MP, Sir Kingsley Wood, then also postmaster general, to find work for her son.
Rising to production assistant, he was part of the crew for the short film" Night Mail"( 1936).
The voice narrating the poem by W.H. Auden(" This is the Night Mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order.") was Jackson himself.
He directed a number of documentaries, the first being" The Horsey Mail"( 1938) about the rural postal service in Suffolk.
" The First Days"( 1939), co-directed by Harry Watt and Humphrey Jennings, was the first of the wartime documentaries, in this instance concerned with the' Phoney War' period.
Jackson's debut feature film was" Western Approaches"( 1944), a semi-documentary war film for what was now the Ministry of Information's Crown Film Unit.
For what became a three- year project, Jackson took on the writing, direction, editing and casting( of non-professional actors) a film about merchant seamen.
Featuring an extended period on location at sea, the lifeboat sequences alone took six- months to complete.
After the war, Jackson spent three years in Hollywood under contract to MGM, although the only film he directed during this period was" Shadow on the Wall"( 1950), based on the novel" Death in the Doll's House" by Lawrence P. Bachmann and Hannah Leessuch.
His film" Encore"( 1951) was in competition at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival." White Corridors"( 1951), a semi-documentary drama about a hospital in the regions, was critically well received at the time.
" What a Carve Up!"( 1961), a film in the old dark house genre, was the most commercially successful of Jackson's later feature films.
Jackson worked in television during the 1960s and 1970s.
Impressed by the stage work of Patrick McGoohan, he seems to have been involved in casting him for" Danger Man"( US:" Secret Agent"), episodes of which he directed.
Apart from McGoohan's" The Prisoner"( 1967), he was also involved with episodes of" The Saint" and" The Professionals".
Jackson died on 3 June 2011 aged 95.
Abhishek Saxena
Abhishek Saxena is an Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director who directed the movie Phullu.
The Phullu movie was released in theaters on 16 June 2017, in which film Sharib Hashmi is the lead role.
Apart from these, he has also directed Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi film.
This film was screened in cinemas in 2014.
Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners".
G. Marthandan
G. Marthandan is an Indian film director who works in Malayalam cinema.

Question: Which film has the director who died earlier, Virgin Island (Film) or The Gaunt Stranger?
Answer: The Gaunt Stranger