Question: Which film has the director died earlier, I Married A Monster From Outer Space or T-Men?

Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 American independent science- fiction horror film written, produced, directed and edited by Ed Wood, starring Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and" Vampira"( Maila Nurmi), and narrated by Criswell. It also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi as a guest star( silent footage of the actor had actually been shot by Wood for another, unfinished film just prior to Lugosi's death in August 1956). Other guest stars are Hollywood veterans Lyle Talbot( who claimed that he never refused any acting job) and former cowboy star Tom Keene. " Plan 9 from Outer Space" was released theatrically in 1959 by Distributors Corporation of America( then credited as Valiant Pictures). The film's storyline concerns extraterrestrials who seek to stop humanity from creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the universe. The aliens implement" Plan 9", a scheme to resurrect the Earth's dead, referred to as" ghouls". By causing chaos, the aliens hope the crisis will force humanity to listen to them; otherwise the aliens will destroy mankind with armies of the undead. The film was originally developed under the title Grave Robbers from Outer Space, but its financial backers objected to this title, which they saw as being sacrilegious, and it was retitled" Plan 9 from Outer Space" prior to production. " Plan 9 from Outer Space" played on television in relative obscurity until 1980, when authors Harry Medved and Michael Medved dubbed it the" worst film ever made" in their book" The Golden Turkey Awards". Wood and his film were posthumously given two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Director Ever and Worst Film. It has since been retrospectively described as" The epitome of so- bad- it's- good cinema" and has gained a cult following. <SEP> Gene Fowler Jr.( 27 May 1917 – 11 May 1998), the eldest son of journalist and author Gene Fowler, was a prominent Hollywood film editor. His work included films of Fritz Lang and Samuel Fuller and movies like Stanley Kramer's" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"( 1963), John Cassavetes'" A Child Is Waiting"( 1963) and" Hang' Em High"( 1968). He was also the director of feature films as well as numerous television programs. While the majority of his directorial work is regarded as minor efforts( Leonard Maltin lists only three of his seven features in his compendium), two of his films," I Was a Teenage Werewolf"( 1957) and" I Married a Monster from Outer Space"( 1958), have gained some critical attention in retrospect. Gene Fowler Jr. was married to film editor Marjorie Fowler from 1944 until his death. He died in Woodland Hills, California of natural causes. His brother Will Fowler( 1922–2004) was a Hollywood screenwriter. <SEP> The Blob is an independently made 1958 American science fiction- horror film in widescreen color by De Luxe, produced by Jack H. Harris, directed by Irvin Yeaworth, and written by Kay Linaker and Theodore Simonson. The film stars Steve McQueen( in his starring feature film debut, as Steven McQueen) and Aneta Corsaut and co-stars Earl Rowe and Olin Howland. " The Blob" was distributed by Paramount Pictures as a double feature with" I Married a Monster from Outer Space". The storyline concerns a growing, corrosive, alien amoeboidal entity that crashes to Earth from outer space inside a meteorite. It devours and dissolves citizens in the small communities of Phoenixville and Downingtown, PA, growing larger, redder, and more aggressive each time it does so, eventually becoming larger than a building. <SEP> The production features Dennis O' Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart and Charles McGraw. T- Men is a 1947 semidocumentary style film noir by director Anthony Mann and shot by noted noir cameraman John Alton. A year later, director Mann used the film's male lead, Dennis O' Keefe, in" Raw Deal." The film was identified as a B movie when featured in the 1992 documentary," Visions Of Light: The Art Of Cinematography" for it s use of lighting and in the discussion about film noir. <SEP> Paramount released the film as a double feature with" The Blob". The film's storyline concerns a young wife that begins to realize that her husband is not the man he was before they married. He has lost all real affection for her and for his new pet dog, which she gave him as a present. I Married a Monster from Outer Space is a 1958 American black- and- white science fiction film from Paramount Pictures, produced and directed by Gene Fowler Jr., that stars Tom Tryon and Gloria Talbott. Thereafter, she quickly discovers that he is not the only man in town that appears to have changed. Now suspicious, she follows him one evening when he goes out for a walk and shockingly discovers that her husband is actually an alien humanoid. <SEP> As a director, he often collaborated with the cinematographer John Alton. He directed films for a variety of production companies, from RKO to MGM, and worked with many major stars of the era. Anthony Mann( June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967) was an American actor and film director, best remembered for his work in the film noir and Westerns genres. He made several Westerns with James Stewart, such as" Winchester'73"( 1950), and he was the director of the medieval epic" El Cid"( 1961), working with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren. He also directed the big- budget film" Cimarron"( 1960), which starred Glenn Ford and Maria Schell.