Question: Which film has the director died earlier, Forbidden Trails or The Count Of Monte Cristo (1953 Film)?

The Return of Monte Cristo is a 1946 swashbuckler film which is a sequel to" The Count of Monte Cristo"( 1934) and" The Son of Monte Cristo"( 1940). <SEP> He is most famous for directing early Western films starring John Wayne in the 1930s, including" Riders of Destiny"( 1933; an early singing- cowboy movie)," The Lucky Texan"( 1934)," West of the Divide"( 1934)," Blue Steel"( 1934)," The Man From Utah"( 1934)," The Star Packer"( 1934)," The Trail Beyond"( 1934; co-starring Noah Beery, Sr. and Noah Beery, Jr.)," The Lawless Frontier"( 1934)," Texas Terror"( 1935)," Rainbow Valley"( 1935)," The Dawn Rider"( 1935)," Westward Ho"( 1935), and" Lawless Range"( 1935). These were inexpensively shot" Poverty Row" movies; many were also written by Bradbury and almost all of them featured character actor George" Gabby" Hayes. Robert N. Bradbury( March 23, 1886 – November 24, 1949)( born Ronald E. Bradbury) was an American film director and screenwriter who directed 125 movies between 1918 and 1941. Bradbury also shot numerous similar films during this period starring his son Bob Steele or Johnny Mack Brown. Bradbury occasionally billed himself as" Robert North BradburyR.N. Bradbury", or" Robert Bradbury". He died in Glendale, California on November 24, 1949 at age 63. <SEP> The Count of Monte Cristo( Spanish: El Conde de Montecristo) is a 1953 Argentine- Mexican historical adventure film directed by León Klimovsky and starring Jorge Mistral, Elina Colomer and Santiago Gómez Cou. It is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel" The Count of Monte Cristo". <SEP> The Count of Monte Cristo( Spanish: El Conde de Montecristo) is a 1942 Mexican historical adventure film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and Chano Urueta and starring Arturo de Córdova, Mapy Cortés and Anita Blanch. It is based on Alexandre Dumas's novel" The Count of Monte Cristo". a story which has been adapted for film many times. <SEP> A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show" art movies". He also founded Argentina's first film club in 1929. After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director of 1944's" Se abre el abismo", he filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's" The Player". He also worked on adaptations of Alexandre Dumas'" The Count of Monte Cristo" and Ernesto Sabato's" The Tunnel". León Klimovsky( 16 October 1906 – 8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer. During the 1950s, Klimovsky settled in Spain, where he became a full- time" professional" director. He directed many spaghetti westerns and" exploitation films", filming in Mexico, Italy, Spain and Egypt. Horror film fans best remember him for his contributions to Spain's horror film genre, beginning with" La Noche de WalpurgisWalpurgis Night"), the film that is said to have started the Spanish horror film boom of the 1970s. Klimovsky directed famed Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy in no less than 9 films in the 1970s, while also directing other classic horror films such as" The Strange Love of the Vampires The Dracula Saga" and" The Vampires' Night Orgy". Naschy complimented Klimovsky's workmanlike attitude and abundant energy, but he always felt that Klimovsky rushed through many of their projects together, never allowing for sufficient retakes. León Klimovsky always dreamt of doing great mainstream movies but ended up doing commercial exploitation films, but he had no remorse, as cinema was a vocational mandate for him. He retired from directing in 1979, at age 73. In 1995, at age 89, he won the" Honor Award" from the Spanish Film Directors Association. He died the following year in Madrid from a heart attack. He was the brother of noted Argentinian mathematician and philosopher Gregorio Klimovsky. <SEP> The film stars Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Christine McIntyre, Dave O'Brien and Tris Coffin. The film was released on December 25, 1941, by Monogram Pictures. Forbidden Trails is a 1941 American Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury and written by Adele Buffington. It was the third of the studio's" Rough Riders" film series.