Question: Which film has the director who is older, Distant Thunder (1973 Film) or The Shadow Of The Cat?

Unlike most of Ray's earlier films," Distant Thunder" was filmed in colour. Distant Thunder( translit. Oshoni Shongket) is a 1973 Bengali film by the renowned Indian director Satyajit Ray, based on the novel by the same name by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. It stars Soumitra Chatterjee, who headlined numerous Ray films, and the Bangladeshi actress Bobita in her only prominent international role. Today the film features in" The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made". It marked the debut of the theatre star Mrityunjay Sil. <SEP> Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners". <SEP> Distant Thunder is a 1988 American drama film directed by Rick Rosenthal and starring John Lithgow and Ralph Macchio. <SEP> John Gilling( 29 May 1912 – 22 November 1984) was an English film director and screenwriter, born in London. He was chiefly known for his horror movies, especially those he made for Hammer Films, for whom he directed" The Shadow of the Cat"( 1961)," The Plague of the Zombies"( 1966)," The Reptile"( 1966) and" The Mummy's Shroud"( 1967), among others. <SEP> It stars André Morell and Barbara Shelley. It was photographed in black- and- white by Arthur Grant. The story is about Tabitha, the house cat of a wealthy lady, who witnesses the murder of her owner by her owner's husband and two servants. The Shadow of the Cat is a 1961 British horror film directed by John Gilling for Hammer Film Productions. The cat becomes bent on revenge while the murderers try to kill her, the only witness. <SEP> Ray was born in Calcutta into a Bengali family which was prominent in the field of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film" Bicycle Thieves"( 1948) during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. Satyajit Ray( 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, graphic artist, lyricist and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, meant primarily for young children and teenagers. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him. He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University. Ray's first film," Pather Panchali"( 1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. This film, along with" Aparajito"( 1956) and" Apur Sansar The World of Apu")( 1959), form" The Apu Trilogy". Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing, and designed his own credit titles and publicity material. Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a Golden Lion, a Golden Bear, 2 Silver Bears, a number of additional awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies, and an Academy Honorary Award in 1992. The Government of India honored him with the Bharat Ratna, its highest civilian award, in 1992. Ray had received many noticeable awards and gained a prestigious position over his life time. In 2004, Ray was ranked number 13 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time.