Question: Which film has the director who was born first, No Way Out (1950 Film) or Häxan?

Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford. <SEP> Tony Arzenta( internationally released as Big Guns and No Way Out) is a 1973 Italian noir film directed by Duccio Tessari. The film was commercially successful. <SEP> "No Way Out" marked the feature film debuts of Sidney Poitier and actress Mildred Joanne Smith. Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels were also nominated for Best Story and Screenplay at the 23rd Academy Awards losing to Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. for Sunset Boulevard. No Way Out is a 1950 black-and-white American film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally and Sidney Poitier, who portrays a doctor tending to slum residents whose ethics are tested when confronted with racism, personified by Richard Widmark as the hateful robber Ray Biddle. <SEP> Written and directed by Benjamin Christensen, the film's documentary style is dramatized with horror sequences. Häxan( Danish: Heksen; English title: The Witches or Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a Swedish- Danish silent film completed in 1920 and released in 1922. Based partly on Christensen's study of the" Malleus Maleficarum", a 15th- century German guide for inquisitors," Häxan" is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch- hunts. With Christensen's meticulous recreation of medieval scenes and the lengthy production period, the film was the most expensive Scandinavian silent film ever made, costing nearly two million Swedish kronor. Although it won acclaim in Denmark and Sweden, the film was banned in the United States and heavily censored in other countries for what were considered at that time graphic depictions of torture, nudity, and sexual perversion. It is now considered to be Christensen's finest work. <SEP> Benjamin Christensen( 28 September 1879 – 2 April 1959) was a Danish film director, screenwriter and an actor both in film and on the stage. As a director he is most well known for the 1922 film" Häxan" and as an actor, he is best known for his performance in the film" Michael"( 1924), in which he plays Claude Zoret, the jilted lover of the film's title character. <SEP> Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and won the Oscar back-to-back for both Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay for "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) and "All About Eve" (1950). Comfortable in a variety of genres and able to elicit career performances from actors and actresses alike, Mankiewicz combined ironic, sophisticated scripts with a precise, sometimes stylized mise en scène. Mankiewicz worked for seventeen years as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and as a producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before getting a chance to direct at Twentieth Century-Fox. Over six years he made 11 films for Fox, reaching a peak in 1950 and 1951 when he won consecutive Academy Awards for Screenplay and Direction for both "A Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve", which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. During his long career in Hollywood, Mankiewicz wrote forty-eight screenplays. He also produced more than twenty films including "The Philadelphia Story" which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941. However, he is best known for the films he directed, twice winning the Academy Award for Best Director. Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.