Question: Are the directors of both films Houdini (1953 film) and Two Seconds from the same country?

<P0-S0> Katutu, the Blind is a 1953 film. <SEP> <P1-S0> I Want Your <P1-S1> Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film. <P1-S2> Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews. <P1-S3> The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons. <P1-S4> The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes. <P1-S5> The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword. <P1-S6> This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively. <SEP> <P2-S0> The film's screenplay, based upon the life of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, is by Philip Yordan, based on the book" Houdini" by Harold Kellock. <P2-S1> The film's music score was by Roy Webb and the cinematography by Ernest Laszlo. <P2-S2> The art direction was by Albert Nozaki and Hal Pereira and the costume design by Edith Head. <P2-S3> The film's storyline is a fictionalized account of Houdini's life. <P2-S4> It details his beginnings as a locksmith, up through his international success as a world- renowned escape artist and stage magician. <P2-S5> Following the death of his mother, he exposes various fraudulent Mediums in the spiritualist movement, while always hoping to make contact with her. <P2-S6> The film also follows his love for his wife Bess Houdini and his most dangerous stunts and stage illusions. <P2-S7> Houdini is a 1953 American Technicolor film biography from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal and Berman Swarttz, directed by George Marshall, that stars then husband- and- wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. <SEP> <P3-S0> Relatively few of Marshall's films are well-known today, with "Destry Rides AgainThe Blue DahliaThe Sheepman", and "How the West Was Won" being the biggest exceptions. <P3-S1> Marshall co-directed " <P3-S2> How the West Was Won" with John Ford and Henry Hathaway, handling the railroad segment, which featured a celebrated buffalo stampede sequence. <P3-S3> While Marshall worked on almost all kinds of films imaginable, he started his career in the early silent period doing mostly Westerns, a genre he never completely abandoned. <P3-S4> In the 1930s, he established a reputation for comedy, directing Laurel and Hardy in three classic films, and also working on a variety of comedies for Fox (Many of his films at Fox were destroyed in a vault fire in 1937). <P3-S5> George E. Marshall (December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975) was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of film history. <P3-S6> Later in his career, he was particularly sought after for comedies. <P3-S7> He did around half a dozen films each with Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis, and also worked with W. C. Fields, Jackie Gleason, and Will Rogers. <SEP> <P4-S0> Mervyn LeRoy( October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987) was an American film director, film producer, author, and occasional actor. <SEP> <P5-S0> Two Seconds is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne and Preston Foster. <P5-S1> It was based on a successful Broadway play of the same name by Elliott Lester. <P5-S2> The title refers to the two seconds it takes the condemned person to die in the electric chair after the executioner throws the switch. <P5-S3> Preston Foster reprises the role he played on the Broadway stage.