Question: Which film whose director was born first, Midnight (1982 Film) or Temple Tower?

It is based on Russo's 1980 novel of the same name, published by Pocket Books. It follows a female hitchhiker en route to San Francisco who finds herself at the mercy of a backwoods Satanic cult in Pennsylvania who sacrifice young women in an insane attempt to try and resurrect the rotting corpse of their dead mother. Midnight( also released as Backwoods Massacre) is a 1982 American exploitation horror film directed by John A. Russo and starring Melanie Verlin, Lawrence Tierney, and John Amplas. The film was shot on location outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and features special effects by Tom Savini. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic <SEP> Gunan, King of the Barbarians  is a 1982 film directed by Franco Prosperi. <SEP> Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford. <SEP> Donald Gallaher( June 25, 1895 – August 14, 1961) was an American actor who appeared in 25 films between 1903 and 1949. He also directed five films, including" Temple Tower"( 1930). His name is sometimes misspelled" Gallagher". Gallaher was born in Quincy, Illinois. After moving to New York City as a child with his mother, he began acting in productions such as" A Royal Family". He had 10 roles in plays before he reached age 12. Gallaher appeared in the silent film" The Great Train Robbery"( 1903), and a bit part in the 23- chapter serial" The Million Dollar Mystery"( 1914). He co-starred with Louis Wolheim and Una Merkel in the two- reeler" Love's Old Sweet Song"( 1923) filmed in Lee De Forest's Phonofilm sound- on- film process. Later in life, he produced Broadway plays and directed films, including" Temple Tower"( 1930)," June First"( 1931), and" The Hot Spot"( 1931). In 1949, using the name Don Gallagher, he served as narrator of the" ABC Television Players", a short- lived dramatic anthology series broadcast from Chicago. On April 13, 1917, Gallaher married actress Beatrice Noyes. They had a son, Donald Gallaher Jr., and divorced on April 1, 1921. <SEP> John A. Russo( born February 2, 1939), sometimes credited as Jack Russo or John Russo, is an American screenwriter and film director most commonly associated with the 1968 horror classic film" Night of the Living Dead". As a screenwriter, his credits include" Night of the Living Dead The Majorettes Midnight", and" Santa Claws". The latter two, he also directed. He has performed small roles as an actor, most notably the first ghoul who is stabbed in the head in" Night of the Living Dead", as well as cameos in" There's Always Vanilla" and" House of Frankenstein 1997". <SEP> The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the novel" Temple Tower" by Herman Cyril McNeile. It is sandwiched between more celebrated portrayals of the character by Ronald Colman in two United Artists films" Bulldog Drummond" and" The Return of Bulldog Drummond". Although described as lost, the film still survives, with copies held in the UCLA Archives. Temple Tower is a 1930 American pre-Code crime film directed by Donald Gallaher and starring Kenneth MacKenna, Marceline Day. and Peter Gawthorne.