Question: Do both films: The Monocle Laughs and The Man In The Iron Mask (1998 Film) have the directors from the same country?

The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1939 American film very loosely adapted from the last section of the novel" The Vicomte de Bragelonne" by Alexandre Dumas," père", which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask. The film was Peter Cushing's screen debut. It was also notable for being the source of several subsequent remakes. The film was directed by James Whale and stars Louis Hayward as royal twins, Joan Bennett as Princess Maria Theresa, Warren William as d' Artagnan, and Joseph Schildkraut as Nicolas Fouquet. <SEP> Lautner's ventures into other genres were less successful though the thriller Le Professionnel starring Jean- Paul Belmondo was a big commercial hit in France in 1981. He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint- Cyr. Georges Lautner( 24 January 1926 – 22 November 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard. <SEP> The picture uses characters from Alexandre Dumas's D'Artagnan Romances and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of" The Vicomte de Bragelonne". The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1998 American action drama film directed, produced, and written by Randall Wallace, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio in a dual role as the title character and villain, Jeremy Irons as Aramis, John Malkovich as Athos, Gerard Depardieu as Porthos, and Gabriel Byrne as D'Artagnan. The film centers on the aging four musketeers, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan, during the reign of King Louis XIV and attempts to explain the mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask, using a plot more closely related to the flamboyant 1929 version starring Douglas Fairbanks," The Iron Mask", and the 1939 version directed by James Whale, than to the original Dumas book. Like the 1998 version, the two aforementioned adaptations were also released through United Artists. <SEP> His work on the film earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America Award in the same category. Randall Wallace( born July 28, 1949) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer, and songwriter who came to prominence by writing the screenplay for the historical drama film" Braveheart"( 1995). He has since directed films such as" The Man in the Iron Mask"( 1998)," We Were Soldiers"( 2002)," Secretariat"( 2010) and" Heaven Is for Real"( 2014). <SEP> The Monocle Laughs or The Monocle ( French: Le monocle rit jaune, Italian: L'ispettore spara a vista) is a 1964 French- Italian comedy thriller film directed by Georges Lautner and starring Paul Meurisse, Marcel Dalio and Olivier Despax. It is the third in a trilogy of films directed by Lautner and starring Meurisse. It is preceded by" The Black Monocle"( 1961) and" The Eye of the Monocle"( 1962). <SEP> The Black Monocle ( French: Le monocle noir) is a 1961 French comedy crime film directed by Georges Lautner and starring Paul Meurisse, Elga Andersen and Bernard Blier. It was followed by two sequels" The Eye of the Monocle"( 1962) and" The Monocle Laughs"( 1964).