Question: Which film has the director born first, Bred In Old Kentucky or Apology For Murder?

The plot of" Apology for Murder" is a blatant rip-off of the seminal film noir" Double Indemnity" which was released the previous year. The production company Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the B movie studios of Hollywood ’s Poverty Row, wanted to take advantage of" Double Indemnity's" huge success and originally intended to call the film" Single Indemnity". However Paramount Pictures, the production company of" Double Indemnity", got wind of it and obtained an injunction. Apology for Murder is a 1945 American film noir directed by Sam Newfield and starring Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Russell Hicks and Charles D. Brown. PRC then changed the title to" Apology for Murder". Much acclaimed B movie director Edgar G. Ulmer, who was working at PRC at the time" Apology for Murder" was made, claimed during a conversation with Peter Bogdanovich that he wrote the original" Single Indemnity" script for producer Sigmund Neufeld. However, he erroneously believed that the film made from it was finally released under the title" Blonde Ice", which is a totally different film produced by Film Classics. <SEP> My Old Kentucky Home is a 1938 American romance film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Evelyn Venable, Grant Richards and Clara Blandick. It takes its title from the song "My Old Kentucky Home". The film's sets were designed by the art director Frank Dexter. <SEP> In addition to his staggering feature output, he also directed one- and two- reel comedy shorts, training films, industrial films, TV episodes and pretty much anything anyone would pay him for. Because of this massive output—he would sometimes direct more than 20 films in a single year —he has been called the most prolific director of the sound era. Many of Newfield's films were made for PRC Pictures. This was a film production company headed by his brother Sigmund Neufeld. Sam Newfield, born Samuel Neufeld,( December 6, 1899- November 10, 1964), also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American B-movie director, one of the most prolific in American film history —he is credited with directing over 250 feature films in a career which began during the silent era and ended in 1958. The films PRC produced were low- budget productions, the majority being westerns, with an occasional horror film or crime drama. <SEP> In Old Kentucky is a 1927 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer and directed by John M. Stahl. The film was based on the popular 1893 play of the same name by Charles T. Dazey and stars Helene Costello and James Murray. " In Old Kentucky" also features an early performance by Lincoln Perry who later became known as Stepin Fetchit. The performance proved to be a breakthrough for Perry who signed a five- year contract with Fox Film Corporation shortly after the film's release. The film is a remake of the 1919 film of the same name which was M- G- M studio head Louis B. Mayer's first production as an independent producer. The play was adapted for the screen a third time in 1935 starring Will Rogers in one of his final film appearances. <SEP> He appeared in 327 films between 1905 and 1932. He also directed 134 films between 1913 and 1926. Edward Dillon( January 1, 1879 – July 11, 1933) was an American actor, director and screenwriter of the silent era. He was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack, aged 54. He was the brother of actor John T. Dillon. <SEP> Bred in Old Kentucky is a 1926 American silent sports film directed by Edward Dillon and starring Viola Dana, Jerry Miley and Jed Prouty.