Question: Do both films, Normal Life and The Pinto Bandit, have the directors who are from the same country?

The film stars Dave O'Brien, James Newill, Guy Wilkerson, Mady Lawrence, James Martin and Jack Ingram. The Pinto Bandit is a 1944 American Western film written and directed by Elmer Clifton. The film was released on April 27, 1944, by Producers Releasing Corporation. <SEP> Based on the success of" Yojimbo", Kurosawa's next film," Sanjuro"( 1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film. In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family" mon". <SEP> John McNaughton( born January 13, 1950) is an American film and television director, originally from Chicago, Illinois, known for his first film. <SEP> A collaborator of D.W. Griffith, he appeared in" The Birth of a Nation"( 1915) and" Intolerance"( 1916) before giving up acting in 1917 to concentrate on work behind the camera, with Griffith and Joseph Henabery as his mentors. His first feature- length solo effort as a director was" The Flame of Youth" with Jack Mulhall. Clifton honed his talents during the late 1910s, directing vehicles for Mulhall and Herbert Rawlinson at Universal and then for Dorothy Gish for Famous Players- Lasky. Two of his projects with Gish," Nobody Home" and" Nugget Nell", featured performances from pre-stardom Rudolph Valentino. Most of this early output has been lost. He was the first filmmaker to discover the talents of Clara Bow, whom he cast in" Down to the Sea in Ships", released on March 4, 1923. The independently produced film was well reviewed for its visual authenticity. During the 1920s, Clifton directed films for several different studios. During the filming of" The Warrens of Virginia"( 1924) for Fox Film Corporation, lead actress Martha Mansfield suffered a fatal accident from burns when her costume caught fire. Clifton directed" The Wreck of the Hesperus" for Cecil B. deMille's production company, and filmed on location in the Grand Canyon for" The Bride of the Colorado". Elmer Clifton( March 14, 1890 – October 15, 1949) was an American writer, director and actor from the early silent days. He also directed some Technicolor short films, including" Manchu Love" with an all- Asian cast. In the sound era, Clifton wrote and directed many poverty row Westerns and" exploitation" classics, among them the anti-marijuana polemic" Assassin of Youth"( 1937). He also directed the vice films" Gambling with Souls"( 1936)," Slaves in Bondage"( 1937) and" City of Missing Girls"( 1941), all of which portrayed addiction and white slavery to some degree. His last film was" Not Wanted"( 1949), which was finished by producer Ida Lupino when Clifton became ill and was unable to work anymore. He died in 1949 of a cerebral hemorrhage shortly after the film's release. <SEP> Francis Gouldman(" c." 1607–1688/89) was a Church of England clergyman and lexicographer whose Latin- English dictionary( 1664) went through several editions. Gouldman was also one of the directors who oversaw the publication of the monumental" Critici sacri", a major collection of Biblical criticism. <SEP> Normal Life is a 1996 American crime drama film based on the real lives of husband- and- wife bank robbers, Jeffrey and Jill Erickson. The film stars Ashley Judd and Luke Perry and was directed by John McNaughton. The original screenplay was written by husband- and- wife team Peg Haller and Bob Schneider.