Question: Do both directors of films Thunder in the Desert and Feelin' Up share the same nationality?

It was released on March 7, 1938, by Republic Pictures. Thunder in the Desert is a 1938 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield, written by George H. Plympton, and starring Bob Steele, Louise Stanley, Don Barclay, Ed Brady, Charles King and Horace Murphy. <SEP> In addition to his staggering feature output, he also directed one- and two- reel comedy shorts, training films, industrial films, TV episodes and pretty much anything anyone would pay him for. Because of this massive output—he would sometimes direct more than 20 films in a single year —he has been called the most prolific director of the sound era. Sam Newfield, born Samuel Neufeld,( December 6, 1899- November 10, 1964), also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American B-movie director, one of the most prolific in American film history —he is credited with directing over 250 feature films in a career which began during the silent era and ended in 1958. Many of Newfield's films were made for PRC Pictures. This was a film production company headed by his brother Sigmund Neufeld. The films PRC produced were low- budget productions, the majority being westerns, with an occasional horror film or crime drama. <SEP> The Desert Fathers( along with Desert Mothers) were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt beginning around the third century AD. The" Apophthegmata Patrum" is a collection of the wisdom of some of the early desert monks and nuns, in print as" Sayings of the Desert Fathers". The most well known was Anthony the Great, who moved to the desert in AD 270–271 and became known as both the father and founder of desert monasticism. By the time Anthony died in AD 356, thousands of monks and nuns had been drawn to living in the desert following Anthony's example—his biographer, Athanasius of Alexandria, wrote that" the desert had become a city." The Desert Fathers had a major influence on the development of Christianity. The desert monastic communities that grew out of the informal gathering of hermit monks became the model for Christian monasticism. The eastern monastic tradition at Mount Athos and the western Rule of Saint Benedict both were strongly influenced by the traditions that began in the desert. All of the monastic revivals of the Middle Ages looked to the desert for inspiration and guidance. Much of Eastern Christian spirituality, including the Hesychast movement, had its roots in the practices of the Desert Fathers. Even religious renewals such as the German evangelicals and Pietists in Pennsylvania, the" Devotio Moderna" movement, and the Methodist Revival in England are seen by modern scholars as being influenced by the Desert Fathers. <SEP> Feelin' Up( also known as Getting Together) is a 1976 comedy film written and directed by David Secter and distributed by Troma Entertainment. <SEP> He is best known for the 1965 film" Winter Kept Us Warm", the first English Canadian film ever screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Widely considered a key milestone in the development of Canadian film," Winter Kept Us Warm" was a gay themed independent film written, directed and funded entirely by Secter, who is gay, while he was a student at the University of Toronto. Secter subsequently released a second film in Canada," The Offering" in 1966, and entered discussions with CBC Television to produce a drama series for the network. However, before that series was launched, he moved to New York City to pursue opportunities in the much larger American film and theatre industry. He was initially slated to direct Cher's 1969 film" Chastity", but dropped out of the project. In New York, he lived with several other experimental filmmakers in a clothing- optional, drug and sex- friendly commune, and worked as a theatre director. He released the low- budget sex comedy" Getting Together"( also titled" Feelin' Up" in some releases) in 1976, and subsequently moved to Los Angeles. He did not work on another film until" Cyberdorm" in 1997. In the early 1990s, Secter's nephew Joel rented" Getting Together" from his local video store in Winnipeg, not knowing that his uncle had directed films. David Secter is a Canadian film director. After discovering his uncle's name in the credits, Joel contacted David to discuss his career in film. These discussions culminated in Joel Secter's own debut as a filmmaker, the 2005 documentary" The Best of Secter& the Rest of Secter". In the film, David also revealed that he is HIV- positive. Also in 2005, David Secter directed and released a documentary film on the Gay Games,. He is interviewed in Matthew Hays' Lambda Literary Award- winning 2007 book. <SEP> Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris. The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.