Question: Which film has the director who is older, The Romance Of Rosy Ridge or A Dog Of Flanders (1999 Film)?

The New York- born director helmed a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s including" Our Vines Have Tender Grapes Meet Me in Las VegasRogue Cop The 5000 Fingers of Doctor T" and" The Girl Hunters". Rowland married Ruth Cummings, the niece of Louis B. Mayer and sister of Jack Cummings( MGM producer/ director). They had one son, Steve Rowland, born in 1932, who later became a music producer in the UK, and has recently published his memoir" Hollywood Heat". Roy Rowland( December 31, 1910 – June 29, 1995) was an American film director. <SEP> He is the son of the actors Steve Brodie and Barbara Ann Stillwell. As a child, Brodie had small roles in such films as" Some Came Running"( directed by Vincente Minnelli, 1958)," The Five Pennies"( 1959) and" Battle at Bloody Beach"( 1961). His first major role was in" The Night of the Grizzly"( 1966), playing the son of Clint Walker. Kevin Brodie( born May 31, 1952) is a film director, screenwriter and former child actor. In the following year he appeared in the comedy" Eight on the Lam"( 1967). During the same period he also made guest appearances on such popular television shows as" Cheyenne Ben CaseyDeath Valley Days My Three Sons" and" Mannix". In 1975 he was one of the leads in the low budget sci-fi thriller" The Giant Spider Invasion", appearing with his father, Steve Brodie. In the 1970s, he moved into production, working as an assistant director, line producer and writer. He has written and directed a small number of films in genres ranging from exploitation comedy(" Delta Pi" aka" Mugsy's Girls", 1985) to thriller(" Treacherous", 1993) and family fare(" A Dog of Flanders", 1999). <SEP> Frank Thrall Weatherwax( June 23, 1902 – December 17, 1991) was an American actor and animal trainer. He is best remembered with his brother Rudd Weatherwax for their famous collie, Pal, the dog who became famous as Lassie in the 1943 Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer film" Lassie Come Home". He also trained the dog, Lightning, for the movie A Dog of Flanders, 1935 version. The WIKIpedia article may be wrong when it says," He also trained the dog, Lightning, for the movie A Dog of Flanders, 1935 version." I have no idea if he worked on the 1935 version, however, Spike, who played the title role in" Old Yeller", played the title role in the 1960 version of" A Dog of Flanders" with Donald Crisp and David Ladd. <SEP> It stars Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, and Janet Leigh in her film debut. The Romance of Rosy Ridge is a 1947 drama film, directed by Roy Rowland, about a rural community bitterly divided during the aftermath of the American Civil War. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by MacKinlay Kantor. <SEP> The Romance of Celluloid is a 1937 short black and white documentary film, narrated by Frank Whitbeck, which goes behind the scenes to look at the manufacture of film and the making of motion pictures. The film was the first of the studio's" Romance of Celluloid" series which also included: <SEP> The screenplay was written by Brodie and Robert Singer, based on the novel of the same name by Ouida. The film was shot on location in Belgium. A Dog of Flanders is a 1999 film directed by Kevin Brodie and starring Jack Warden, Jeremy James Kissner, Jesse James, Jon Voight, Cheryl Ladd, Steven Hartley, and Bruce McGill. It was the fifth film based on the original novel.