Finishing School (1934 film)
Finishing School is a 1934 pre-Code romantic drama film starring Frances Dee as a young woman who gets into trouble after being sent to a finishing school by her neglectful parents.
This film was condemned by the Legion of Decency.
The Bat (1959 film)
The Bat is an American mystery film from 1959 starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead.
It is the fourth film adaptation of the story, which began as a 1908 novel" The Circular Staircase" by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which she later adapted( with Avery Hopwood) into the 1920 play" The Bat".
The first film version of the play was the 1926 American silent film" The Bat".
The film version was adapted by playwright Crane Wilbur, who also directed.
" The Bat" was distributed in 1959 on a double bill with the British Hammer film" The Mummy".
Now in the public domain," The Bat" is available for online download.
Roland West
Roland West( February 20, 1885 – March 31, 1952) was a Hollywood film director known for his innovative proto-film noir movies of the 1920s and early 1930s.
Charles Dow Clark
Charles Dow Clark
( September 21, 1869 – March 26, 1959) was an actor and an American football coach and referee.
He served as the head football coach at the University of Mississippi while taking a leave from his studies at Tufts College in Medford, Massachusetts.
Clark became an actor, appearing in such films as" The Bat Whispers"( 1925) and" It Happened in Hollywood"( 1937).
The Monster (1925 film)
The Monster is a 1925 silent horror comedy directed by Roland West, based on the play by Crane Wilbur, and starring Lon Chaney and Johnny Arthur, and is remembered as an antecedental "Old Dark House" movie, as well as a precedent to many subgenre of horror films.
The film has been shown on TCM network with an alternative, uncredited musical score.
Roland West went on to direct "The Bat" (1926) and its later sound remake "The Bat Whispers" (1930.)
The Bat Whispers
The Bat Whispers is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Roland West, produced by Joseph M. Schenck, and released by United Artists.
The film is based on the 1920 mystery play" The Bat", written by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, and is the second film version by the same director, previously adapted in 1926.
An early talkie and one of the first widescreen films, West financed the cinematography, which required two cameramen, several techniques and was once a lost film but thanks to the duplicate filmstock was restored in 1988.
Bernard Vorhaus
Bernard Vorhaus( December 25, 1904 – November 23, 2000) was an American film director born in New York City.
The Harvard University graduate, in addition to directing thirty- two films, was also the mentor to future film director David Lean, some of whose work as a film editor early in his career was on Vorhaus pictures.
He worked steadily as a screenwriter in Hollywood while in his 20s but wanted to direct movies.
He eventually decided to move to England and began directing quota quickies, such as" The Last Journey"( 1935).
After success in England, Vorhaus moved back to the U.S. and began working at Republic Pictures directing B-movies.
Vorhaus was blacklisted in 1951 at HUAC hearings.
Vorhaus had already moved to Europe at that time and directed a few minor films while there.
He finally returned to England and retired from the film business, founding a business specialising in house renovations.
Vorhaus had two children, Gwyn and David, an electronic music pioneer who worked under the name White Noise.
Querelle
Querelle is a 1982 West German- French English- language drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brad Davis, adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel" Querelle of Brest".
It marked Fassbinder's final film as a writer/ director; it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a drug overdose in June 1982.
Finishing School (1953 film)
Finishing School is a 1953 French- Italian comedy film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Susan Stephen, Anna Maria Ferrero and Jacques Sernas.
It was made at Cinecittà with sets designed by the art director Franco Lolli.
It is also known by the alternative title of Luxury Girls.
Katutu, the Blind
Katutu, the Blind is a 1953 film.

Question: Which film has the director died earlier, The Bat Whispers or Finishing School (1953 Film)?
Answer: The Bat Whispers