Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz (born Manó Kaminer(1886-1905)
Mihály Kertész (1905); December 24, 1886 April 11, 1962) was a Hungarian-born American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history.
He directed classic films from the silent era and numerous others during Hollywood's Golden Age, when the studio system was prevalent.
Curtiz was already a well-known director in Europe when Warner Bros. invited him to Hollywood in 1926, when he was 39 years of age.
He had already directed 64 films in Europe, and soon helped Warner Bros. become the fastest-growing movie studio.
He directed 102 films during his Hollywood career, mostly at Warners, where he directed ten actors to Oscar nominations.
James Cagney and Joan Crawford won their only Academy Awards under Curtiz's direction.
He put Doris Day and John Garfield on screen for the first time, and he made stars of Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Bette Davis.
He himself was nominated five times and won twice, once for Best Short Subject for "Sons of Liberty" and once as Best Director for "Casablanca".
Curtiz introduced to Hollywood a unique visual style using artistic lighting, extensive and fluid camera movement, high crane shots, and unusual camera angles.
He was versatile and could handle any kind of picture: melodrama, comedy, love story, film noir, musical, war story, Western, or historical epic.
He always paid attention to the human-interest aspect of every story, stating that the "human and fundamental problems of real people" were the basis of all good drama.
Curtiz helped popularize the classic swashbuckler with films such as "Captain Blood" (1935) and "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938).
He directed many dramas which today are also considered classics, "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), "The Sea Wolf" (1941), "Casablanca" (1942), and "Mildred Pierce" (1945).
He directed leading musicals, including "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), "
This Is the Army" (1943), and "White Christmas", and he made comedies with "Life With Father" (1947) and "We're No Angels" (1955).
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.
Sitting Bull (film)
Sitting Bull is a 1954 Eastmancolor Western film directed by Sidney Salkow and René Cardona that was filmed in Mexico in CinemaScope.
In a greatly fictionalised form, it depicts the war between Sitting Bull and the American forces, leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Custer's Last Stand.
It was the first independent production to be filmed in the CinemaScope process.
Featuring sympathetic portrayals of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse," The New York Times" called it a" crazy horse opera".
Edgar Samuel Paxson
Edgar Samuel Paxson( April 25, 1852 – November 9, 1919) was an American frontier painter, scout, soldier and writer, based mainly in Montana.
He is best known for his portraits of Native Americans in the Old West and for his depiction of the Battle of Little Bighorn in his painting" Custer's Last Stand".
Olivier Borios
Olivier Borios( born 23 June 1959) is a retired breaststroke swimmer from France, who represented his native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union.
He claimed the gold medal a year earlier at the 1979 Mediterranean Games in the Men's 100m Breaststroke event.
He has been 10 times national champion of the 100 meters breaststroke( winter and summer 1978, winter and summer 1979, winter and summer 1980, winter and summer 1981, winter and summer 1982) and 9 times national champion of the 200 meters breaststroke( winter and summer 1977, winter and summer 1978, winter 1979, winter and summer 1980, winter and summer 1981).
He swam at the EN Castres, at the Cercle des nageurs d' Antibes, at the Racing Club de France and at the Toulouse Athletic Club( TAC), where he currently swims and coaches other swimmers.
The Great Sioux Massacre
The Great Sioux Massacre is a 1965 American Western film directed by Sidney Salkow in CinemaScope using extensive action sequences from Salkow's 1954" Sitting Bull".
In a fictionalized form, it depicts Custer as an incompetent warmonger, and the Indians as his victims, and covers events leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Custer's Last Stand It stars Joseph Cotten, Darren McGavin and Philip Carey.
Spring in Winter
Spring in Winter is a 1917 Hungarian film directed by Michael Curtiz.
Elmer Clifton
Elmer Clifton( March 14, 1890 – October 15, 1949) was an American writer, director and actor from the early silent days.
A collaborator of D.W. Griffith, he appeared in" The Birth of a Nation"( 1915) and" Intolerance"( 1916) before giving up acting in 1917 to concentrate on work behind the camera, with Griffith and Joseph Henabery as his mentors.
His first feature- length solo effort as a director was" The Flame of Youth" with Jack Mulhall.
Clifton honed his talents during the late 1910s, directing vehicles for Mulhall and Herbert Rawlinson at Universal and then for Dorothy Gish for Famous Players- Lasky.
Two of his projects with Gish," Nobody Home" and" Nugget Nell", featured performances from pre-stardom Rudolph Valentino.
Most of this early output has been lost.
He was the first filmmaker to discover the talents of Clara Bow, whom he cast in" Down to the Sea in Ships", released on March 4, 1923.
The independently produced film was well reviewed for its visual authenticity.
During the 1920s, Clifton directed films for several different studios.
During the filming of" The Warrens of Virginia"( 1924) for Fox Film Corporation, lead actress Martha Mansfield suffered a fatal accident from burns when her costume caught fire.
Clifton directed" The Wreck of the Hesperus" for Cecil B. deMille's production company, and filmed on location in the Grand Canyon for" The Bride of the Colorado".
He also directed some Technicolor short films, including" Manchu Love" with an all- Asian cast.
In the sound era, Clifton wrote and directed many poverty row Westerns and" exploitation" classics, among them the anti-marijuana polemic" Assassin of Youth"( 1937).
He also directed the vice films" Gambling with Souls"( 1936)," Slaves in Bondage"( 1937) and" City of Missing Girls"( 1941), all of which portrayed addiction and white slavery to some degree.
His last film was" Not Wanted"( 1949), which was finished by producer Ida Lupino when Clifton became ill and was unable to work anymore.
He died in 1949 of a cerebral hemorrhage shortly after the film's release.
Colonel Custard's Last Stand
Colonel Custard's Last Stand is a 1914 comedy silent movie about Custer's Last Stand.
It starred Lloyd Hamilton as Colonel Custard.
The film was directed by Richard Garrick and was released on 19 March 1914.
The film also starred Betty Burbridge, James Douglass, Harry Russell and Mai Wells.
The film was made by the St. Louis Motion Picture Company and the Frontier Motion Picture Company.
It was distributed by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
Custer's Last Stand (serial)
Custer's Last Stand is a 1936 American film serial based on the historical Custer's Last Stand at the Little Bighorn River.
It was directed by Elmer Clifton, and starred Rex Lease, William Farnum and Jack Mulhall.
It was produced by the Poverty Row studio Stage& Screen Productions, which went bust shortly afterwards as a victim of the Great Depression.
This serial stars many famous and popular B- Western actors as well as silent serial star Helen Gibson playing Calamity Jane, Frank McGlynn Jr. as General Custer, and Allen Greer as Wild Bill Hickock.
In April of the same year, the serial was edited into an 84- minute feature film, which was released under the same name.

Question: Do both directors of films Spring In Winter and Custer'S Last Stand (Serial) have the same nationality?
Answer: yes