Question: Are the directors of both films Two on a Guillotine and The Beautiful Galatea (film) from the same country?

Based on the success of" Yojimbo", Kurosawa's next film," Sanjuro"( 1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film. In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family" mon". <SEP> A radio writer and actor, he moved to Hollywood after his World War II service and played a series of character roles in films beginning with the film noir "The Killers" (1946). He created the role of Marshal Matt Dillon for the radio series "Gunsmoke" (1952–1961) and narrated the television adventures of "Rocky and Bullwinkle" (1959–1964) and "The Fugitive" (1963–1967). Finding fewer onscreen roles in the 1950s, he changed from actor to producer-director with television work, narration, and a series of Warner Bros. films in the 1960s. William Conrad (September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American World War II fighter pilot, actor, producer, and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television, peaking in popularity when he starred in the detective series "Cannon" (1971–1976). Conrad found stardom as a detective in the TV series "Cannon" (1971–1976) and "Nero Wolfe" (1981), and as district attorney Jason Lochinvar "J.L.Fatman" McCabe in the legal drama "Jake and the Fatman" (1987–1992). <SEP> The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 American melodrama that tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and written by George Bradshaw and Charles Schnee. It stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame and Gilbert Roland. " The Bad and the Beautiful" resulted in five Academy Awards out of six nominations in 1952, a record for the most awards for a movie that was not nominated for Best Picture nor for Best Director. In 2002, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film" culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The theme song," The Bad and the Beautiful", penned by David Raksin, became a jazz standard and has been cited as an example of an excellent movie theme. " The Bad and the Beautiful" was created by the same team that later worked on another film about the film business," Two Weeks in Another Town"( 1962): director( Vincente Minnelli), producer( John Houseman), screenwriter( Charles Schnee), composer( David Raksin), male star( Kirk Douglas), and studio( MGM). Both films also feature performances of the song" Do n't Blame Me," by Leslie Uggams in" Two Weeks" and by Peggy King in" The Bad and the Beautiful". In one scene of" Two Weeks in Another Town", the cast watches clips from" The Bad and the Beautiful" in a screening room, presented as a film that Douglas's character in" Two Weeks", Jack Andrus, had starred in. " Two Weeks" is not a sequel however, as the characters in the two stories are unrelated. <SEP> Rolf Meyer( 12 November 1910 – 3 February 1963) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director. <SEP> It is inspired by the story of Pygmalion's statue Galatea. The film's sets were designed by Franz Schroedter. The Beautiful Galatea is a 1950 West German romantic comedy film directed by Rolf Meyer and starring Hannelore Schroth, Viktor de Kowa and Willy Fritsch. <SEP> The screenplay by John Kneubuhl and Henry Slesar is based on a story by Slesar. It was the first in a series of low budget suspense dramas for Warner Bros, the others being "My Blood Runs Cold" and "Brainstorm".(There was meant to be a fourth, "The Thing at the Door", but it ended up not being made). Two on a Guillotine is a 1965 American horror film produced and directed by William Conrad and starring Connie Stevens. These were inspired by the success of William Castle films.