Question: Do both films Wnuf Halloween Special and The Man With The Golden Arm have the directors from the same country?

He studied film at Towson University, during which time he filmed the 2007 movie" Dead Teenagers". He is known for his motion pictures," WNUF Halloween Special"( 2013) and" Call Girl of Cthulhu"( 2014). Chris LaMartina is an American director, writer, and producer that works out of Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2011, he has been working in marketing and advertising as a Creative Director as well as Director of Storytelling for several mid-Atlantic- based ad agencies. <SEP> The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American drama film with elements of film noir, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren. It recounts the story of a drug addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world. Although the addictive drug is never identified in the film, according to the American Film Institute" most contemporary and modern sources assume that it is heroin", in contrast to Algren's book which named the drug as morphine. The film stars Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang and Darren McGavin. It was adapted for the screen by Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer and Ben Hecht( uncredited), and directed by Otto Preminger. The film's initial release was controversial for its treatment of the then- taboo subject of drug addiction. It was nominated for three Academy Awards: Sinatra for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Joseph C. Wright and Darrell Silvera for Best Art Direction- Set Decoration, Black- and- White and Elmer Bernstein for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Sinatra was also nominated for best actor awards by the BAFTAs and The New York Film Critics. The film is in the public domain. <SEP> Richard Eldridge Maltby Sr.( June 26, 1914 – August 19, 1991) was an American musician, conductor, arranger and bandleader, most notable for his 1956 recording"( Themes from)" The Man with the Golden Arm. He was also the father of the Broadway lyricist and director Richard Maltby Jr. After studying briefly at Northwestern University's music school, he left college to become a full- time musician. He played trumpet with several big bands, including those of Jack Little, Roger Pryor, Bob Strong and Henry Busse, as well as also doing some arranging. In 1940, he took a job as an arranger for the orchestra of the Chicago- based radio station, WBBM, before moving to New York City in 1945 to become an arranger- conductor on network radio, where he worked with Paul Whiteman. In 1942, Benny Goodman recorded his composition" Six Flats Unfurnished." During the post-war years, he made several recordings for subsidiary labels of RCA Victor, and in 1954, finally scored a Top 40 hit with" St. Louis Blues Mambo". In 1955, he began leading his own dance band, with which he had his Top 20 hit,"( Themes From)" The Man With the Golden Arm, in the spring of the following year. He left RCA for Columbia Records in 1959, then moved to Roulette Records a year later. He stopped recording on his own during the mid-1960s. He was also the musical director of SESAC Jazz Classics between 1950 and 1965, and recorded several transcriptions for radio. As a conductor, he worked with singers such as Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Johnnie Ray, Vic Damone and Ethel Merman, and after he stopped recording on his own, he served as an arranger and conductor for Lawrence Welk on records and television. A heart condition in his later years forced him into retirement, and he underwent several operations prior to his death. He died in 1991, aged 77. <SEP> Doc, Hands of Steel( also known as" The Man Who Came to Kill" and" Man with the Golden Pistol") is a 1965 Spanish- Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Alfonso Balcázar. <SEP> Parody commercials are shown throughout the film, some of which were written and directed by persons other than LaMartina. The WNUF Halloween Special is a 2013 comedy horror film directed primarily by Chris LaMartina, who also helped to co-write the film. Its plot follows a television personality that decides to investigate strange supernatural occurrences at a house purported to be haunted. <SEP> Otto Ludwig Preminger( 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an American theatre and film director, originally from Austria- Hungary. He directed more than 35 feature films in a five- decade career after leaving the theatre. He first gained attention for film noir mysteries such as" Laura"( 1944) and" Fallen Angel"( 1945), while in the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high- profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these later films pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with topics which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction(" The Man with the Golden Arm", 1955), rape(" Anatomy of a Murder", 1959) and homosexuality(" Advise& Consent", 1962). He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. He also had a few acting roles.