Question: Which film has the director born earlier, Scared Straight! or The Crowded Sky?

Joseph Pevney (September 15, 1911 – May 18, 2008) was an American film and television director. <SEP> The Crowded Sky is a 1960 Technicolor drama film produced by Michael Garrison, directed by Joseph Pevney, and starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr." The Crowded Sky" is based on the novel of the same name by Hank Searls. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. The film's storyline follows the back stories of the crew and passengers of a US Navy jet and a commercial airliner carrying a full load of passengers during a bout of severe weather. Other issues such as a malfunctioning radio make it nearly impossible to communicate with air traffic control and set the two aircraft on a collision course. <SEP> Scared Straight! Narrated by Peter Falk, the subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three- hour session with actual convicts. Filmed at Rahway State Prison, a group of inmates known as the" lifers" berate, scream at, and terrify the young offenders in an attempt to" scare them straight"( hence the film's title), so that those teenagers will avoid prison life. The documentary aired on television in the late 1970s, uncensored; it marked the first time that the profane words" fuck" and" shit" were broadcast on many networks. Some broadcasters( an example being CFQC, a CTV Network affiliate in Canada) added locally produced segments in which experts discussed both the content of the documentary and the rationale behind airing it uncensored. The documentary received several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It found that most of the participants did not reoffend. is a 1978 documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. However, studies that compared and evaluated the effects of various Scared Straight programs against a control group have concluded that they are not effective at deterring crime. <SEP> Henry Hunt" Hank" Searls( August 10, 1922- February 17, 2017) was an American author and screenwriter. His novels included" The Crowded Sky"( 1960), which was adapted as a film with Dana Andrews and Rhonda Fleming," The Penetrators"( 1965, writing as Anthony Gray), and" The Pilgrim Project"( 1964), which was adapted as the 1968 film" Countdown". Searls also wrote the novelizations for the films" Jaws 2"( 1978) starring Roy Scheider and Murray Hamilton and( 1987) starring Michael Caine and Lorraine Gary. <SEP> The Crowded Hour is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by E. Mason Hopper and starring Bebe Daniels. It was produced by Famous Players- Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the 1918 Broadway play," The Crowded Hour", by Channing Pollock and Edgar Selwyn. <SEP> His best known work is the 1978 Oscar and Emmy- winning documentary," Scared Straight!" Arnold Shapiro( born February 1, 1941) is an American television producer and writer. His other productions include the CBS reality series," Rescue 911", hosted by William Shatner( 1989 – 1996) and the CBS reality series," Big Brother"( 2001 – 2016); the ABC documentary series," Brat Camp"( 2005); the documentary," Scared Silent: Exposing& Ending Child Abuse", hosted by Oprah Winfrey( 1992) which aired as a simulcast on CBS, NBC, PBS, followed by ABC;" Break The Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse", hosted by Jane Seymour;" Kids Killing Kids", hosted by Malcolm- Jamal Warner, an Emmy- winning docu- drama which aired simultaneously and commercial- free on CBS and Fox; and Emmy- winning series of seven specials," The Teen Files", hosted by Leeza Gibbons. Among his 100+ awards are 16 Emmys, an Academy Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, the People's Choice Award, three humanities Prizes, the Television Academy's Governor's Award, and the Career Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association. Shapiro's most recent documentary series have been" Homeland Security USA" for ABC;" If You Really Knew Me" for MTV; and" Beyond Scared Straight" for A&E( 2010- 2015). Arnold Shapiro Productions has produced programs for all the broadcast networks and 14 cable channels- from MTV to HBO. Shapiro is a native of Los Angeles and a graduate of UCLA.