Earth vs. the Spider
Earth vs. the Spider( a.k.a. The Spider and Earth vs. the Giant Spider) is an independently made 1958 American black- and- white science fiction/ horror film produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon, who also wrote the story upon which the screenplay by George Worthing Yates and Laszlo Gorog was based.
The film stars Ed Kemmer, June Kenney and Eugene Persson.
The special effects were by Gordon and Paul Blaisdell.
" Earth vs. the Spider" was released by American International Pictures as a double feature in different film markets with either" The Brain Eaters" or" The Screaming Skull".
A Peep Behind the Scenes (1918 film)
A Peep Behind the Scenes is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by Kenelm Foss and Geoffrey H. Malins and starring Ivy Close, Gerald Ames and Gertrude Bain.
It is an adaptation of the 1877 novel of the same name set around a travelling fair.
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers( a.k.a. Invasion of the Flying Saucers and Flying Saucers from Outer Space) is a 1956 American black- and- white science fiction film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Charles H. Schneer, directed by Fred F. Sears, that stars Hugh Marlowe and Joan Taylor.
" Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" was released as a double feature with" The Werewolf".
The film's storyline was suggested by the bestselling, non-fiction book" Flying Saucers from Outer Space" by Maj.
Donald Keyhoe.
The film's stop- motion animation special effects were created by Ray Harryhausen.
A Peep Behind the Scenes (1929 film)
A Peep Behind the Scenes is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Frances Cuyler, Haddon Mason and Harold Saxon-Snell.
It was based on the 1877 novel of the same title by Amy Catherine Walton.
It was made at Cricklewood Studios.
Behind the Scenes (1914 film)
Behind the Scenes is a 1914 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players- Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, based on the play" Behind the Scenes" by Margaret Mayo, and starring Mary Pickford as a struggling young actress.
James Kirkwood directed and co-starred.
Beal Wong
Beal Wong was an Asian American actor who acted in films from 1933 to 1962.
Some of the films he appeared in were" The Big BluffChinaWomen in the NightLittle Tokyo, U.S.A.".
He also appeared in" The Secret Code".
He played the Chinese Radio Listener in" Earth vs. the Flying Saucers".
Bert I. Gordon
Bert Ira Gordon( born September 24, 1922) is an American film director most famous for such science fiction and horror B-movies as" The Amazing Colossal Man" and" Village of the Giants".
Most of Gordon's work is in the idiom of giant monster films, for which he used rear- projection to create the special effects.
His nickname" Mister B.I.G." is a reference both to his initials and to his preference for directing movies featuring super- sized creatures.
Our Planet - Behind the Scenes
Our Planet- Behind the Scenes is a 2019 documentary film that takes a behind- the- scenes look at the filming of" Our Planet".
It was released by Netflix on August 4, 2019.
The Brain Eaters
The Brain Eaters is a 1958 independently made American black- and- white science fiction- horror film, produced by Ed Nelson( and Roger Corman, uncredited), and directed by Bruno VeSota.
The film stars Nelson, Alan Jay Factor, and Joanna Lee and includes a brief appearance by Leonard Nimoy( name misspelled in film credits as" Leonard Nemoy The Brain Eaters" was distributed by American International Pictures in different film markets as a double feature with either" Earth vs. the Spider" or" Terror from the Year 5000".
Kenelm Foss
Kenelm Foss( 13 December 1885 – 28 November 1963) was a British actor, theatre director, author, screenwriter and film director.
He was born in Croydon, Surrey and studied art at the Wellesley School of Art and in Paris.
He was, however, more interested in theatre and in 1903 made his first appearance on the London stage at the Royal Court Theatre.
He then spent four years at the Glasgow Repertory Theatre producing plays and acting before returning to London to manage the Lyric Theatre in the Strand.
He directed the play" Magic" by G.K. Chesterton, which had been written specially for him in 1913, and which title was the caption to the Vanity Fair caricature of him on 17 December 1913.
He then produced the first performance of Chekhov ’s" The Cherry Orchard" in England and in Europe, after which he obliged to leave the theatre for a while when he contracted tuberculosis.
In 1915 he began a new career as a film director utilizing the production techniques and acting skills he had learned in the theatre.
Many of his films were made for Astra Films.
Following a relapse of his illness, he was able to return to the theatre and in the early 1920s spent some time in New York City where he produced a play on Broadway starring John Barrymore.
He published several novels, works of poetry and biographical studies of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and J. M. W. Turner.
With Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and others he published" Practical Course in Cinema Acting in Ten Complete Lessons" in 1920.
In 1925 he opened a sandwich bar in London which soon became a great success with the theatre fraternity and was followed by more" Sandys" to meet the demand.
Foss died in 1963.
He had married the actress Elisabeth Gilson and had six children, two of whom died in childhood.
In 2005 his daughter Fanny Burney Woolnough published( under the name Fanny Burney) a biography of her father," Stage, Screen and Sandwiches: the Remarkable Life of Kenelm Foss".

Question: Do both films, Earth vs. the Spider and A Peep Behind the Scenes (1918 film), have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: no