The Lorry
The Lorry is a 1977 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras.
It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.
A female writer reads to a comedian the script of her next film.
It is about a hitchhiking woman who climbs in a truck.
During the whole trip, she keeps talking while the driver listens to her, saying nothing.
The film does not show the actor and the actress, just numerous scenes of a big truck going through the countryside.
Val Guest
Valmond Maurice Guest( 11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006) was an English film director and screenwriter.
Beginning as a writer( and later director) of comedy films, he is best known for his work for Hammer, for whom he directed 14 films, and science fiction films.
He enjoyed a long career in the film industry from the early 1930s until the early 1980s.
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.
Hartley Lobban
Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s.
William Comes to Town
William Comes to Town is a 1948 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring William Graham and Garry Marsh.
It was based on the Just William series of novels by Richmal Crompton.
It served as a loose sequel to 1947 film" Just William's Luck".
It is also known by its U.S. alternative title William Goes to the Circus.
Jane Welsh
Jane Welsh( 14 January 1905 – 27 November 2001) was a British actress.
She is perhaps best remembered for her portrayal of Mrs Brown, William ’s mother, in the films" Just William's Luck"( 1947) and" William Comes to Town"( 1948).
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
John McMahon (Surrey and Somerset cricketer)
John William Joseph McMahon( 28 December 1917 – 8 May 2001) was an Australian- born first- class cricketer who played for Surrey and Somerset in England from 1947 to 1957.
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu( 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.
Her script for the film" Hiroshima mon amour"( 1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
Just William's Luck (film)
Just William's Luck is a 1947 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring William Graham, Garry Marsh and Jane Welsh.
The film was based on the Just William series of books by Richmal Crompton.
Crompton was impressed with the film and wrote a novel" Just William's Luck" based on the events of the film.
The following year a second film" William Comes to Town" was made.

Question: Which film whose director was born first, The Lorry or William Comes To Town?
Answer: William Comes To Town