Question: Which film has the director who is older, Them! or Anantana Avantara?

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> The movie is a light – hearted comedy about the ordeals of a newly married man. It set a trend in the comic films in Kannada and established Kashinath as a comic story teller. However, at the time of release, the met met with several controversies primarily for the taboo subject on which the story was built. Some even considered the movie to have made a negative impact on the youngsters of that time. The movie was an average grosser but has since then achieved cult status in the later decades. The movie also introduced Upendra as the lyrics writer and assistant director. The movie was remade in Telugu in 2006 as" Please Sorry Thanks". Anantana Avantara is a 1989 Indian Kannada- language adult comedy film directed by and starring Kashinath. <SEP> Elliot Silverstein( born August 3, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American director, who is best known for being the director of the movie" Cat Ballou"( 1965). <SEP> Rufus Norris( born 16 January 1965) is a British theatre and film director, who is currently the Artistic Director of the National Theatre. <SEP> Pictures, produced by David Weisbart, directed by Gordon Douglas, and starring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, and James Arness. Them! is a 1954 American black- and- white science fiction monster film from Warner Bros. The film is based on an original story treatment by George Worthing Yates, which was then developed into a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman and Russell Hughes. " Them!" is one of the first of the 1950s" nuclear monster" films, and the first" big bug" feature. A nest of gigantic irradiated ants is discovered in the New Mexico desert; they quickly become a national threat when it is discovered that two young queen ants and their consorts have escaped to establish new nests. The national search that follows finally culminates in a battle with" Them" in the concrete spillways and storm drain system of Los Angeles. <SEP> He worked on Hindi and Malayalam movies. With a career spanning over three decades, Kashinath worked in over 40 films carving a niche for himself in comedy genre. He is credited for introducing new talents such as actor Upendra, musician V. Manohar and director Sunil Kumar Desai alongside many other technicians who went on to become successful in Kannada film industry. Making his debut as a director through the comedy- drama film" Aparoopada Athithigalu"( 1976), Kashinath came into limelight with the suspense thriller" Aparichita"( 1978). He made his acting debut through the successful film" Anubhava"( 1984). The same film was remade and directed by him in Hindi as" Anubhav"( 1986), making his Bollywood entry. His films generally touched subjects which were often regarded as taboo in the Indian society and thus attracted the tag of being vulgar by some critics. He was more popular for his double entendre dialogues in his films to the extent that most associated the term" double meaning" with Kashinath and many went to the extent of attributing the decline of Kannada films quality to him. Despite the criticisms faced, his films have influenced the society as well as the industry. Kashinatha Hathwara( 8 May 1951 – 18 January 2018) was an Indian actor and filmmaker who primarily worked in Kannada films. Some of his movie dialogues have entered common lingo; for example the extremely popular phrase of" Mangalooru Manjunatha"( from the film" Love Maadi Nodu"). Some of his other successful films include" Anantana Avantara"( 1989)," Avale Nanna Hendthi"( 1988)," Ajagajantara"( 1991) and" Hendathi Endare Heegarabeku"( 1995). Kashinath made a prominent return when he was cast as an elderly jail inmate who gets falsely accused in his daughter's death in Tharun Sudhir's" Chowka"( 2017). His last film performance before his death in 2018, is in under-production film" Ol Muniswamy".