Question: Which film has the director died later, Excursion Train or Bad Day At Black Rock?

Conspiracy is a 2008 American action thriller film written and directed by Adam Marcus and stars Val Kilmer and Jennifer Esposito. The film is influenced by the classic western film noir thriller" Bad Day at Black Rock"( 1955), which itself was an adaptation of a short story" Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin. The film was released on direct- to- DVD in the United States on March 18, 2008. Whilst" Bad Day at Black Rock" tells the story of wounded World War II vet John J. MacReedy," Conspiracy" revolves around William" Spooky" MacPherson, a disabled special operations marine wounded during combat operations in Iraq. When MacPherson decides to visit a friend on a ranch in the southwest, he discovers that his friend has disappeared, and no one will acknowledge that he ever lived there. The film was shot in Galisteo, New Mexico in 30 days on April 19 and May 19, 2007. <SEP> His movies include" Bad Day at Black Rock"( 1955)," Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"( 1957)," The Magnificent Seven"( 1960)," The Great Escape"( 1963), and" Ice Station Zebra"( 1968). In 2013," The Magnificent Seven" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". He was not related to director Preston Sturges. John Eliot Sturges( January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. <SEP> The Walking Hills is a 1949 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Randolph Scott and Ella Raines. The film's plot has film noir elements in its story of a search for an old treasure by nine men including a detective tracking a fugitive, several others who have things to hide, and a love triangle involving the two leads and the fugitive. Sturges filmed the movie in the Alabama Hills of California and Death Valley National Monument, locations he returned to a few years later in filming his classic" Bad Day at Black Rock". <SEP> The supporting cast includes Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Lee Marvin, and Ernest Borgnine. The film tells the story of a mysterious stranger who arrives at a tiny isolated town in a desert of the southwest United States in search of a man. The film was adapted by Don McGuire and Millard Kaufman from the short story" Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin. The original story had appeared in" The American Magazine" in January 1947, with full- color illustrations by Robert Fawcett. Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American thriller film, directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan, that combines elements of the western genre with those of film noir. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." <SEP> Léo Joannon( 21 August 1904 – 28 March 1969) was a French writer and film director. Born in Aix- en- Provence, Joannon was originally a law student who became a novelist and journalist before entering the film industry in the 1920s as a cameraman. <SEP> Excursion Train( French: Train de plaisir) is a 1936 French romantic comedy film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Frédéric Duvallès, José Noguéro and Germaine Roger.