Question: Which film has the director died earlier, Jeevitham (1950 Film) or Night Has A Thousand Eyes?

He is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of Tamil cinema, and one of three movie moguls of the South Indian film industry along with S. S. Vasan and L. V. Prasad. His production company AVM Productions is the only production company in Kollywood (Tamil film industry) to run successfully for five decades and three generations. AVM was born in Karaikudi in a well-to-do Nagarathar family. He moved to Chennai (then known as Madras) at an early age and established Saraswathi Stores which sold gramophone records. Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar (28 July 1907 – 12 August 1979), also known as A. V. Meiyappan or AVM, was an Indian film producer, director and philanthropist who established AVM Productions in Vadapalani, Chennai. Subsequently, he entered the film industry and started directing his own films. After some initial setbacks, AVM delivered a string of hits in the early 1940s. Following the immense success of his 1947 film "Nam Iruvar", AVM moved to film production and established AVM Productions in Chennai, first at Santhome and then at Kodambakkam. In 1951, AVM entered the Hindi film industry with the film "Bahar" starring Vyjayanthimala. By the time he died in 1979, he had produced 167 films. Notable films produced by AVM Productions are "VazhkaiBaharParasakthiHum Panchhi Ek Daal KeBhookailasKalathur KannammaServer Sundaram" and "Major Chandrakanth". AVM also directed a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s, the notable ones being "Alli ArjunaBhookailasSabapathySri Valli" and "Nam Iruvar". <SEP> John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS( 10 February 190427 January 1963) was an Australian- born American film director, producer and screenwriter. In 1957, he won the Academy Award for Best Writing/ Best Screenplay for" Around the World in Eighty Days" and in 1942, he was nominated as Best Director for" Wake Island". He had seven children by his wife, actress Maureen O'Sullivan, including actress Mia Farrow. <SEP> The War of the Volcanoes( Italian original title La guerra dei vulcani) is a 2012 documentary film directed by detailing the filming of Roberto Rossellini's 1950 film" Stromboli" starring Ingrid Bergman as well as the 1950 film" Volcano" starring Anna Magnani. <SEP> " See also The Night Has a Thousand Eyes( disambiguation)." The screenplay was written by Barré Lyndon and Jonathan Latimer. Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a 1948 film noir, starring Edward G. Robinson and directed by John Farrow. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich, originally published under the pseudonym" George Hopley". The film includes the original Angel's Flight on Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles as a location. The copyright is owned by Universal MCA, but is not in release in the US. A German import DVD is available. The Film Noir Foundation supports a new DVD release in the US. <SEP> Le masque de la Méduse is a 2009 fantasy horror film directed by Jean Rollin. The film is a modern-day telling of the Greek mythological tale of the Gorgon and was inspired by the 1964 classic Hammer Horror film of the same name and the 1981 cult classic" Clash of the Titans". It was Rollin's final film, as the director died in 2010. <SEP> Jeevitham  is a 1950 Black-and-white Telugu social guidance film produced and directed by A. V. Meiyappan with his company AVM Productions. The film stars Vyjayanthimala in her Telugu cinema debut with S. Varalakshmi, T. R. Ramachandran and C. H. Narayana Rao forming an ensemble cast, with many actors appearing in other significant roles. Actress Lalitha and Padmini made guest appearances as stage dancers. The film was a remake of the 1949 Tamil film "Vazhkai", which was also produced and directed by A.V. Meiyappan with Vyjayanthimala in the lead. Following the success of "Vazhkai" and "Jeevitham", it was remade in Hindi a year later by A. V. Meiyappan as "Bahar", however the Hindi version was directed by M. V. Raman, who was the writer in the Tamil and Telugu versions. Vyjayanthimala is the only star to reprise her role in all three versions, where she made her screen and regional debut through all films.