Question: Which film has the director died first, Purple Noon or Bell-Bottom George?

René Clément( 18 March 1913 – 17 March 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter. <SEP> Marcel Varnel( 16 October 1892 – 13 July 1947) was a film director. He was born Marcel Hyacinthe le Bozec in Paris, France. Varnel started his working life on the Paris stage, soon becoming a director of musical comedies. In 1925 he moved to New York City working as director in several Broadway operettas, musicals and dramas for the Shubert family. This was followed by a move to Hollywood where he directed three low budget thrillers. In 1934, he moved to England and it was as director of British comedies initially working at British International Pictures, Elstree then in 1936 moving to Gainsborough Pictures where he produced his best films. Among the performers he worked with were Will Hay, The Crazy Gang, Arthur Askey and George Formby. He died in a car crash near Rake, West Sussex. <SEP> The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel of the same name, the film stars Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf, Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge Sherwood, Cate Blanchett as Meredith Logue, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Freddie Miles. The novel was previously filmed twice. In 1957, a one- hour version was produced for the TV anthology series" Studio One", directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, though no recording survives. In 1960, a full- length film version was released, entitled" Purple Noon" and directed by René Clément, starring Alain Delon in his first major role. Claude Chabrol's 1968 film" Les biches" uses many elements of Highsmith's novel but switches the gender of the main characters. The screenwriter was Paul Gégauff, who had also written the script for" Purple Noon". <SEP> Bell- Bottom George is a 1943 black and white British comedy musical film, directed by Marcel Varnel, starring George Formby and Anne Firth. A wartime morale buster, it features the songs," Swim Little FishIt Serves You Right If I Had A Girl Like You" and" Bell Bottom George." Future Carry On star Charles Hawtrey appears in a small role. <SEP> The film stars Alain Delon in his first major film, along with Maurice Ronet( as Philippe Greenleaf) and Marie Laforêt( as Marge); Billy Kearns( an expatriate American actor well- liked in France) plays Greenleaf's friend Freddy Miles, and Romy Schneider appears briefly in an uncredited role as Freddie Miles' companion. The film, principally in French, contains brief sequences in Italian. Screenwriter Paul Gégauff wrote a variation on the same story in 1968 when he worked on" Les biches" for Claude Chabrol. Highsmith's source novel was adapted again in 1999 under the original title," The Talented Mr. Ripley". Purple Noon( also known as Full Sun, Blazing Sun, Lust for Evil, and Talented Mr. Ripley) is a 1960 crime thriller film directed by René Clément, loosely based on the 1955 novel" The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith. <SEP> Mysterious Object at Noon( or" Dokfa nai meuman", literally" Dokfa in the Devil's Hand") is a 2000 Thai independent experimental documentary film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.