Dead Man's Bluff
Dead Man's Bluff, or Zhmurki is a 2005 Russian black comedy/ crime film.
Director Aleksei Balabanov, who directed" Brother" and" Brother 2", uses" uniformly ace"( Variety) cameo performances, by Russia's most prominent actors.
The film suggests that in the mean free- market streets of Russia in the beginning of 90s, the only real liberty was the freedom to kill.
The Ringer (1928 film)
The Ringer is a 1928 British silent crime film directed by Arthur Maude and starring Leslie Faber, Annette Benson and Hayford Hobbs.
It was based on the Edgar Wallace novel" The Gaunt Stranger".
Scotland Yard hunt for a dangerous criminal who has returned to Britain after many years away.
A talkie version of" The Ringer" followed in 1931.
Der Hexer (1964 film)
Der Hexer( aka The Ringer," The Wizard" or" The Mysterious Magician") is a 1964 West German black and white mystery film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Joachim Fuchsberger.
It was part of a very successful series of German films based on the writings of Edgar Wallace and adapted from the 1925 novel titled" The Ringer"( originally:" The Gaunt Stranger").
In 1965, a sequel" Neues vom HexerAgain the Ringer") was released.
Dead Man's Hand (2007 film)
Dead Man's Hand is a 2007 film directed by Charles Band.
The Ringer (1931 film)
The Ringer is a 1931 British crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Patric Curwen, Esmond Knight, John Longden and Carol Goodner.
Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
The film was based on an Edgar Wallace story" The Gaunt Stranger", which is the basis for his play" The Ringer".
Forde remade the same story in 1938 as" The Gaunt Stranger".
There was also a silent film of" The Ringer" in 1928, and a 1952 version starring Donald Wolfit.
It was made at Beaconsfield Studios.
Aleksei Balabanov
Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov( 25 February 1959 – 18 May 2013) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who shot mostly arthouse pictures but gained mainstream popularity with the crime drama" Brother"( 1997) and its more action- oriented sequel," Brother 2"( 2000), both of which starred Sergei Bodrov, Jr. as Danila Bagrov.
" Brother" was successful both at the box office and in video copies, achieving wide popularity in Russia.
Later, however, Balabanov became better known for his films" Cargo 200"( 2007) and" Morphine"( 2008).
A hugely controversial figure, Balabanov was often accused of both Russian nationalism"( Brother 2, War)" and Russophobia"( Cargo 200, The Stoker)", as well as general misanthropy.
Due to his personal and political controversy, grotesque style, dark humour, shocking naturalism, genre deconstruction, and balancing between art cinema and mainstream he was often compared to Lars von Trier, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Coen brothers, and Takeshi Kitano.
Elsa Barker
Elsa Barker( 1869 – 1954) was an American novelist, short- story writer and poet.
She became known for three books" Letters from a Living Dead Man"( 1914)," War Letters from the Living Dead Man"( 1915), and" Last Letters From the Living Dead Man"( 1919), that she said were messages from a dead man produced through automatic writing.
The Gaunt Stranger
The Gaunt Stranger( released as The Phantom Strikes in the US) is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde.
It stars Sonnie Hale, Wilfrid Lawson and Alexander Knox.
Walter Forde
Walter Forde( born Thomas Seymour Woolford, 21 April 1898 – 7 January 1984) was a British actor, screenwriter and director.
Born in Lambeth, South London in 1898, he directed over fifty films between 1919 from the silent era through to 1949 in the sound era He died in Los Angeles, California in 1984.
Blind Man's Bluff (1952 film)
Blind Man's Bluff is a 1952 British crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Zena Marshall, Sydney Tafler and Anthony Pendrell.

Question: Which film has the director died first, The Gaunt Stranger or Dead Man'S Bluff?
Answer: The Gaunt Stranger