Question: Which film whose director was born first, Looks and Smiles or The Yellow Cab Man?

It is based on the novel of the same name, written by Barry Hines. The film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where Loach won the Young Cinema Award. The film was shot in black- and- white entirely on location in Sheffield. There is some Yorkshire dialect in the film, although not as much as in previous Loach- Hines collaborations such as" Kes" and" The Price of Coal". Despite this, the review in the New York Times complained that" a great deal of the dialogue remains unintelligible to the American ear." Ken Loach considered the film a failure and turned to making documentaries for several years afterwards, saying that the film failed to" create the outrage in the audience that should have been there". He also considered it" the end of an era" as he avoided long camera shots in subsequent films. Looks and Smiles is a 1981 British drama film directed by Ken Loach. A 2016 Guardian article wrote," Even the most devoted fan found 1981 ’s Looks& Smiles painfully miserable". In support of the film, it has been held up as one of Ken Loach's film that does not propagate one political view heavily, as opposed to" Fatherland" or" Land and Freedom" <SEP> The inventor of unbreakable glass(" Elastiglass") tries to sell it to a taxicab company, hoping that they will make unbreakable windshields. The Yellow Cab Man is a 1950 comedy film directed by Jack Donohue and starring Red Skelton, Gloria DeHaven and Edward Arnold. A brief sequence of distorted visual effects in the film is the work of the photographer Weegee, who also makes a cameo appearance as a cab driver. <SEP> His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty(" Poor Cow", 1967), homelessness(" Cathy Come Home", 1966), and labour rights(" Riff- Raff", 1991, and" The Navigators", 2001). Kenneth Charles Loach( born 17 June 1936) is an English filmmaker. Loach's film" Kes"( 1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films," The Wind That Shakes the Barley"( 2006) and" I, Daniel Blake"( 2016), received the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him the ninth filmmaker to win the award twice. Loach, a social campaigner for most of his career, believes the current criteria for claiming benefits in the UK are" a," Catch- 22" situation designed to frustrate and humiliate the claimant to such an extent that they drop out of the system and stop pursuing their right to ask for support if necessary". <SEP> Some of his movie directing roles include" Babes in Toyland"( 1961)," Marriage on the Rocks",( 1965), and" Assault on a Queen",( 1966). Some of his television directing roles include" The Frank Sinatra Show The Colgate Comedy Hour The Red Skelton Show", and" The Dean Martin Show". John Francis" Jack" Donohue( November 3, 1908 – March 27, 1984) was an American film actor, screenwriter, director, producer, composer, and choreographer. <SEP> Ieda's later works continued her practise of touching on contentious themes; her 1991 book" Yellow Cab", about the eponymous stereotype of Japanese women overseas who allegedly engaged in indiscriminate sex with foreigners, attracted a great deal of media attention in Japan, including two television documentaries by TV Asahi and Tokyo Broadcasting System. George Sarratt, her research assistant for the book, later denounced major portions as" fraudulent", even indicating that she had altered direct quotes from interviewees. Japanese career women in New York also set up a protest group against the book, feeling that the stereotype had damaged their professional image; their activities, which were described as" Ieda- bashing" by one scholar studying the" yellow cab" phenomenon, resulted in a sharp decline in her literary reputation. Despite the negative attention she received for" Yellow Cab", Ieda continued to produce popular works; her 1994 novel" Women Who Slept with the Bubble" was made into a series of movies, the newest of which, starring Yoko Mitsuya, was released in June 2007. <SEP> The art director was Tomoo Shimogawara.