Question: Which film has the director born first, Viva Knievel! or Maria Marten, Or The Murder In The Red Barn?

Viva Knievel! is a 1977 American action- adventure film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Evel Knievel( as himself), Gene Kelly, and Lauren Hutton. <SEP> Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn is a 1935 British film melodrama film starring Tod Slaughter and Eric Portman. It is based on the true story of the 1827 Red Barn Murder. It was directed by Milton Rosmer. The film is also known as Murder in the Red Barn( short UK title). The film is based on the popular 19th century melodramas about the case and is highly theatrical, with an opening in which all the characters are introduced by a Master of Ceremonies in front of a painted backdrop, but is also slightly more lavishly produced and cinematically inventive than the later films directed by Tod Slaughter's producer George King. Slaughter gives a full- throated over- the- top performance in a calculatedly melodramatic style, encouraging the audience to vicariously share in his villainy; this approach became his trademark and gives his films a cult status of their own peculiar kind. <SEP> Maria Marten is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Walter West starring Trilby Clark, Warwick Ward and Dora Barton. It is based on the real story of the Red Barn Murder in the 1820s, and is one of five film versions of the events. The film shifted the action to fifty years earlier to the height of the Georgian era. This was the last of the silent film adaptations of the Maria Marten story, and its success paved the way for the much better 1935 sound film remake starring Tod Slaughter. A 35 mm print of the 1928 silent film exists in the British Film Institute's archives. <SEP> Gordon Douglas( December 15, 1907 – September 29, 1993) was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five- decade career in motion pictures. He was a native of New York City. <SEP> He made his screen debut in "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" (1915) and continued to act in theatre, film and television until 1956. In 1926 he directed his first film "The Woman Juror" and went on to direct another 16 films between 1926 and 1938. Milton Rosmer (4 November 1881 – 7 December 1971) was a British actor, film director and screenwriter. He died in Chesham, Buckinghamshire in 1971. <SEP> The Crimes of Stephen Hawke is a 1936 British historical melodrama film directed by George King and starring Tod Slaughter as the nefarious Stephen Hawke- who masquerades as the' Spine- Breaker'. It also features Marjorie Taylor, D. J. Williams and Eric Portman. It was made at Shepperton Studios, with sets designed by Philip Bawcombe. This is the third of Tod Slaughter's film outings, billed as a' new- old melodrama'. In the introduction Slaughter appears in person, in a BBC studio, where he describes with relish his murderous activities in his two previous films:" Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn"( 1935) and( 1936). In the film Slaughter plays a seemingly kindly money- lender who dotes on his daughter Julia. He has however a double life as the notorious' Spine- Breaker', Victorian England's most maniacal serial killer. His nefarious activities are eventually detected by his daughter's suitor Matthew Trimble, the son of one of his victims, who after pursuing and failing to catch him somewhat charitably opines to his daughter: In the end Slaughter comes out of hiding to kill another unwelcome suitor of his daughter, before falling to his death from the roof of his house in a dramatic final exit.