Question: Are the directors of both films The Midnight Story and Von Richthofen And Brown from the same country?

The Midnight Story is a 1957 American CinemaScope film noir crime film directed by Joseph Pevney, and starring Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, and Gilbert Roland. The film was originally slated to be titled" The Eyes of Father Tomasino", after the 1955" Lux Video Theatre" TV episode it was based on. <SEP> John Phillip Law( September 7, 1937 – May 13, 2008) was an American film actor. Following a breakthrough role as a Russian sailor in" The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming"( 1966), Law became best known for his roles as gunfighter Bill Meceita in the Spaghetti Western" Death Rides a Horse"( 1967) with Lee Van Cleef, the blind angel Pygar in the cult science fiction film" Barbarella"( 1968) with Jane Fonda, the title character in the cult action film( 1968), Manfred von Richthofen in" Von Richthofen and Brown"( 1971), and news anchor Robin Stone in" The Love Machine"( 1971). The latter reteamed him with Alexandra Hay, his co-star from the 1968" acid comedy Skidoo". <SEP> He has been called" The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low- budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Admired by members of the French New Wave and" Cahiers du cinéma", in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award" for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers." Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner. Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including" The Silence of the Lambs The Godfather Part IIApollo 13 The Manchurian Candidate" and" Philadelphia". A documentary about Corman's life and career entitled, directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011. The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well- received screening at Sundance. Roger William Corman( born April 5, 1926) is an American director, producer, and actor. <SEP> Von Richthofen and Brown, alternatively titled The Red Baron, is a 1971 war film directed by Roger Corman and starring John Phillip Law and Don Stroud as Manfred von Richthofen and Roy Brown. Although names of real people are used, the story by Joyce Hooper Corrington and John William Corrington makes no claim to be historically accurate, and in fact is largely fictional. <SEP> Appointment with a Shadow is a 1957 CinemaScope film noir crime film directed by Richard Carlson and starring George Nader, Joanna Moore, Brian Keith and Virginia Field. It is not to be confused with the Tony Curtis film" The Midnight Story", which was known in Britain as Appointment with a Shadow. <SEP> Joseph Pevney (September 15, 1911 – May 18, 2008) was an American film and television director.