Jack Smight
John R. Smight( March 9, 1925 – September 1, 2003) was an American theatre and film director.
His film credits include" The Traveling Executioner No Way to Treat a LadyRabbit, RunLoving Couples MidwayHarperAirport 1975 Damnation Alley" and the" Columbo" episode" Dead Weight".
Venus Flytrap (film)
Venus Flytrap( filmed 1966, released 1970) is an American horror film shot partly in Japan.
The plot features a mad scientist who uses thunder and lightning to turn carnivorous plants into man-eating creatures.
It is known variously as Body of the Prey, and The Revenge of Doctor X( American video box title).
Although the film is based on a 1950s screenplay by Ed Wood, he remained uncredited.
The film was directed, scripted and produced by Norman Earl Thomson, a pulp fiction writer known for his" Kill Me In" series of paperback novels, published under his pen name Earl Norman.
The film is often credited to film editor Kenneth Crane, who had directed the famed 1961 Japanese horror film," The Manster".
The American video release erroneously features the major credits for 1969 Philippines production" The Mad Doctor of Blood Island."
Syndicated movie- mocking series" Cinema Insomnia" featured this film in an episode that premiered on October 31, 2011,
The Mad Doctor of Blood Island
The Mad Doctor of Blood Island is a 1969 Filipino horror film, co- directed by Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon, and starring John Ashley, Eddie Garcia and Ronald Remy.
It was the third in a series of four Filipino horror films produced by Romero and Kane W. Lynn known as the" Blood Island" series, which also included" Terror Is a ManBrides of Blood" and" Beast of Blood".
Beverly Miller was associate producer on this film, and later went on to co-produce several other Filipino horror films.
This film dared to go a step further than" Brides of Blood" in the nudity and gore department.
The plot involves a man traveling to an island where a mad scientist named Dr. Lorca is creating human/ plant mutants with chlorophyll blood out of the local natives.
The film was later syndicated to television as Tomb of the Living Dead.
It was also briefly known in certain states as The Mad Doctor of Crimson Island.
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
The Mad Doctor of Market Street is a 1942 American horror film produced by Universal Pictures starring Lionel Atwill.
The film was a low- budget project that utilized the studio's contract players and gave rising director Joseph H. Lewis an opportunity to demonstrate his versatility with little production money.
Airport 1975
Airport 1975( also known as Airport'75) is a 1974 American air disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film" AirportAirport 1975" was directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye and Jennings Lang and has a screenplay by Don Ingalls.
The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black and George Kennedy, as well as Gloria Swanson in her final screen appearance.
The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into the cockpit causing the fatalities of senior crew and the blinding of the pilot with no one aboard qualified to take the controls.
" Airport 1975" was the seventh highest- grossing movie of 1974 at the US and Canada box office.
Eddie Romero
Edgar Sinco Romero( July 7, 1924 – May 28, 2013) was a Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter.
Beast of Blood (film)
Beast of Blood, released in the UK as Blood Devils, is a 1970 Filipino horror film.
A sequel to" The Mad Doctor of Blood Island", it was directed by Eddie Romero.
It was the fourth in a series of four Filipino horror films, produced by Romero and Kane W. Lynn, known as the" Blood Island" series, which also included" Terror Is a ManBrides of Blood" and" Beast of Blood".
It was also Romero's last film for Lynn's Hemisphere Pictures, as the two went their separate ways after this film was completed.
Terror Is a Man
Terror Is a Man( also known as Blood Creature, Creature from Blood Island, The Gory Creatures, Island of Terror and Gore Creature) is a 1959 black- and- white Filipino/ American horror film directed by Gerardo de Leon.
It was the first in a series produced by Eddie Romero and Kane W. Lynn known as the" Blood Island" series, which also included" Brides of Blood The Mad Doctor of Blood Island" and" Beast of Blood".
All four films took place on an island called Blood Island, named for its vivid red-hued sunsets.
The film focuses on a shipwreck survivor washed ashore on a small island where a scientist is experimenting on a panther in an effort to make it human.
Brides of Blood
Brides of Blood( a.k.a. Brides of the Beast and Grave Desires) is a 1968 Filipino horror film, co- directed by Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon, and starring John Ashley, Kent Taylor, Beverly Hills, Eva Darren and Mario Montenegro.
It was the first movie that Ashley made in the Philippines, beginning a long association between Ashley and that country.
" Brides of Blood" was the second in a series of four horror films produced by Romero and Kane W. Lynn known as the" Blood Island" series, which also included" Terror Is a Man The Mad Doctor of Blood Island" and" Beast of BloodBrides of Blood" was later released to television syndication in some areas as Island of Living Horror.
The Camp on Blood Island
The Camp on Blood Island is a 1958 British World War II film, directed by Val Guest for Hammer Film Productions and starring André Morell, Carl Möhner, Edward Underdown and Walter Fitzgerald.
The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Japanese-occupied British Malaya and deals with the brutal, sadistic treatment of Allied prisoners by their captors.
On its release, the film was promoted with the tag line "Jap War Crimes Exposed!", alongside a quote from Lord Russell of Liverpool, "We may forgive, but we must never forget", and an image of a Japanese soldier wielding a samurai sword.
From its powerful opening sequence of a man being forced to dig his own grave before being shot dead, an intertitle follows, stating "this is not just a story
- it is based on brutal truthThe Camp on Blood Island" is noted for a depiction of human cruelty and brutality which was unusually graphic for a film of its time.
It received some contemporary allegations of going beyond the bounds of the acceptable and necessary into gratuitous sensationalism.
A prequel, "The Secret of Blood Island", was released in 1964.

Question: Do both films The Mad Doctor of Blood Island and Airport 1975 have the directors that share the same nationality?
Answer: no