Question: Are director of film A Bell for Adano and director of film Revenge of the Nerds both from the same country?

It was adapted from the novel of the same title by John Hersey, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1945. In his review of the film for" The New York Times", Bosley Crowther wrote," ... this easily vulnerable picture, which came to the Music Hall yesterday, is almost a perfect picturization of Mr. Hersey's book." A Bell for Adano( 1945) is a film directed by Henry King and starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney. In addition to the Broadway play( Cort Theatre,( 12/06/1944- 10/27/1945), which starred Fredric March, there have been several other versions of the story. In a 1955 Lux Video Theatre adaptation, Edmond O'Brien had the lead, with a young Charles Bronson playing the part William Bendix took in the movie. Barry Sullivan and Anna Maria Alberghetti were in a 1956 CBS telecast, and John Forsythe played the major in a 1967 Hallmark Hall of Fame broadcast. <SEP> The film's plot chronicles a group of nerds at the fictional Adams College trying to stop the ongoing harassment by the jock fraternity, the Alpha Betas, in addition to the latter's sister sorority, Pi Delta Pi. Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Jeff Kanew, and starring Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards, with Curtis Armstrong, Ted McGinley, Julia Montgomery, Brian Tochi, Larry B. Scott, Michelle Meyrink, John Goodman, Timothy Busfield, Andrew Cassese and Donald Gibb. <SEP> Kanew directed" Gotcha!"( 1985) and" Tough Guys"( 1986), the final film pairing actors Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster, having initially directed Douglas in 1983's" Eddie Macon's Run". His other directorial efforts include" Troop Beverly Hills" starring Shelley Long," V.I. Warshawski" starring Kathleen Turner," Natural Enemies" starring Hal Holbrook and Louise Fletcher," Babij Jar", a Holocaust drama," National Lampoon's Adam& Eve", several TV episodes, and for the stage and video versions of the Kirk Douglas one- man show" Before I Forget"( 2009). Kanew also directed the documentary" Black Rodeo"( 1972) capturing the events surrounding the first ever performance of an all- black rodeo in the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City. Kanew's son, Justin Kanew, is a reality show contestant from season 15 and season 18 of" The Amazing Race". Justin was also the Democratic candidate for Congress in Tennessee's 7th District in the 2018 Midterm Election. Jeffrey Roger Kanew( born December 16, 1944) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and film editor who early in his career made, with his brother Gary Kanew and director Howard Deutch, trailers for many films of the 1970s and is probably best known for directing the film" Revenge of the Nerds"( 1984) and for editing" Ordinary People". <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Seven films directed by King were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Henry King( January 24, 1886 June 29, 1982) was an American actor and film director. <SEP> Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise is a 1987 American comedy film, a sequel to" Revenge of the Nerds" and the second installment in the" Revenge of the Nerds series". Its cast featured most of the main actors from its predecessor, including Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards( albeit in a smaller role), Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott, Timothy Busfield, Donald Gibb, and Andrew Cassese. This film also provided an early starring role for Courtney Thorne- Smith. Other cast members include Bradley Whitford, Ed Lauter, and Barry Sobel. One of the movie trailers parodies the trailer of where they pan the inside of a house, then the phone rings, and the person sitting in the chair facing away from the camera picks up, then the person turns to reveal its Heather O'Rourke's character, Carol- Ann, who says" They're back." In the" Nerds" version, Robert Carradine's character, Lewis, turns and says" We're back!" and does his infamous nerd laugh. 38 Special provided the title track" Back to Paradise".