Blowback (film)
Blowback is a 2000 film directed by Mark L. Lester.
All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923 film)
All the Brothers Were Valiant is a 1923 American silent sea adventure and romantic drama film starring Lon Chaney.
The film was produced and distributed by Metro Pictures corporation and directed by Irvin Willat.
The cast also features Malcolm McGregor, Billie Dove and Robert McKim.
The film is now considered lost, destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire.
" All the Brothers Were Valiant" was remade by MGM as" Across to Singapore" in 1928 with Joan Crawford and in 1953 again as" All the Brothers Were Valiant".
Irvin Willat
Irvin V. Willat (November 18, 1890 – April 17, 1976) was an American film director of the silent film era.
He directed 39 films between 1917 and 1937.
Early in his career Willat worked as a cinematographer on several films.
His older brother Edwin Willat (1882–1950) was cinematographer on several silent films.
Kalanjiyam
Mu. Kalanjiyam is an Indian film director, who has made Tamil films.
A winner of Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Story Writer, Kalanjiyam has also featured in the lead role in his films.
Malcolm McGregor
Malcolm McGregor
( October 13, 1892 – April 29, 1945) was an American actor of the silent era. McGregor appeared in 55 films between 1922 and 1936.
He was born in Newark, New Jersey and died in Hollywood, California.
A cross between Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and the earlier Harrison Ford, McGregor, with slick- back hair, starred as the young whaling captain in a film version of Ben Ames Williams'" All the Brothers Were Valiant"( 1923), perhaps the highlight of a busy career that mostly found the handsome, clean- cut actor supporting such glamorous female stars as Corinne Griffith, Florence Vidor, and Evelyn Brent.
Like so many of his contemporaries, McGregor's career quickly waned after the changeover to sound and he was reduced to playing second fiddle to Bela Lugosi in the Mascot serial" The Whispering Shadow"( 1932).
McGregor retired after playing a gangster in a low- budget screen version of radio's" Special Agent K-7"( 1937).
McGregor reportedly died from burns suffered in an accident in his Hollywood home.
Leather Gloves
Leather Gloves is a 1948 drama film directed by William Asher and Richard Quine.
It stars Cameron Mitchell and Virginia Grey.
It is also known as Loser takes all and Winner Takes Nothing.
All the Brothers Were Valiant
All the Brothers Were Valiant is a 1953 Technicolor adventure drama film made by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer( MGM), based on the 1919 novel" All the Brothers Were Valiant" by Ben Ames Williams.
The 1953 MGM film is a remake of the 1923 silent film that starred Lon Chaney and made by Metro Pictures( a forerunner of MGM), that is now considered lost; as is the 1928 MGM version," Across to Singapore", which starred Ramon Novarro.
The 1953 version is directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman from a screenplay by Harry Brown.
The music score is by Miklós Rózsa, the cinematography by George J. Folsey and the art direction is by Randall Duell and Cedric Gibbons.
It stars Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger and Ann Blyth, with Betta St. John, Keenan Wynn, James Whitmore, Kurt Kasznar, Lewis Stone( his final film, released posthumously), John Lupton, and Michael Pate.
Across to Singapore
Across to Singapore is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film directed by William Nigh, and starring Ramon Novarro and Joan Crawford.
The plot involves a love triangle between a woman and two brothers, set on board ship and in Singapore.
The screenplay was written by Ted Shane based on the novel" All the Brothers Were Valiant" by Ben Ames Williams.
This was the second film based on this novel; the first was" All the Brothers Were Valiant"( 1923, now lost), and it was remade again in 1953 as" All the Brothers Were Valiant".
Clifton Ko
Clifton Ko( born 1958) is a Hong Kong film director, actor, producer and scriptwriter.
He graduated from Kwun Tong Maryknoll College, and entered TV and film industry in late 1970s, firstly worked with director Clifford Choi.
In this period he wrote Choi's" No U- Turn"( 1981) and" Teenage Dreamers", and John Woo's comedy" Once a Thief".
In 1982 Ko entered Raymond Wong's the newly founded Cinema City& Films Co., and directed his first film" The Happy Ghost" in 1984.
The film series, like all his major works, is a slapstick comedy with moral teaching, family value, and optimism.
Ko, together the company, is prolific in making" Chinese New Year movies".
Important titles include family comedy series" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World"( beginning in 1987);" Chicken and Duck Talk", a collaboration with comedian/ writer Michael Hui; and ensemble comedy series" All's Well, Ends Well"( beginning in 1992); and" It's a Wonderful Life"( 1994)( Stokes).
Winner Takes All (2000 film)
Winner Takes
All is a 2000 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Clifton Ko and featuring an ensemble cast.
This film released was to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Question: Are the directors of films All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923 film) and Winner Takes All (2000 film) both from the same country?
Answer: no