East Is East (1999 film)
East Is East is a 1999 British comedy- drama film written by Ayub Khan- Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell.
It is set in Salford, Lancashire,( now in Greater Manchester), in 1971, in a mixed- ethnicity British household headed by Pakistani father George( Om Puri) and an English mother, Ella( Linda Bassett).
" East Is East" is based on the play" East is East" by Ayub Khan- Din, which opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in October 1996 and Royal Court Theatre in November 1996.
The title derives from the Rudyard Kipling poem" The Ballad of East and West", of which the opening line reads:" Oh East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet".
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Never the Twain (film)
Never the Twain( Czech: Velbloud uchem jehly) is a 1926 Czech silent comedy film directed by Karel Lamač and starring Jan W. Speerger, Betty Kysilková and Anny Ondra.
It is based on a play by František Langer.
The son of a wealth industrialist marries the daughter of a beggar.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Artur Berger.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931 film)
Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1931 drama film produced and distributed by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer and starring Leslie Howard and Conchita Montenegro.
It is based on the book by Peter B. Kyne.
The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and was filmed in Tahiti like Van Dyke's two previous south sea adventures" The Pagan" and" White Shadows in the South Seas".
The film is a remake of a 1925 silent film of the same name.
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925 film)
Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1925 American silent South Seas drama film based on the book by Peter B. Kyne, produced by MGM and directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Anita Stewart and featuring Boris Karloff in an uncredited bit part.
It was remade as talking picture in 1931 at MGM by director W. S. Van Dyke.
This is one of Tourneur's many lost and sought after films.
Zara Nutley
Zara Nutley (born Zahrah Mary Chassib Jaber, 19 August 1924 – 9 October 2016), was a British actress of stage and television.
She is best known for her roles in two television comedy series, "Mind Your Language" (as college principal Miss Courtney) and "Never the Twain" (as Aunt Eleanor).
A. R. Harwood
Alexander Roy Harwood( 1897–1980), better known as A. R. Harwood, or Dick Harwood, was an Australian film director and producer who also worked in exhibition.
He was inspired to become a filmmaker when he was posted to Tahiti to work for an insurance company and watched the shooting of" Never the Twain Shall Meet"( 1925).
He returned to Australia and produced and directed" The Man Who Forgot"( 1927).
Harwood went on to make a number of feature films over the next twenty years.
Film historians Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper said of him that" what Harwood lacked in talent as a director, he made up for in perseverance, usually in the face of formidable shortages of finance and equipment."
He also worked as an insurance broker, real estate agent, theatre manager and chief executive for the Miss Australia Quest.
Harwood was married with one daughter.
Maurice Tourneur
Maurice Tourneur (2 February 1876 – 4 August 1961) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Question: Which country the director of film Never The Twain Shall Meet (1925 Film) is from?
Answer: French