Question: Do both films: Half-A-Dollar-Bill and Dead Men Don't Make Shadows have the directors from the same country?

Woodbridge Strong " W. S." Van Dyke II( Woody)( March 21, 1889 – February 5, 1943) was an American film director and writer who made several successful early sound films, including" Tarzan the Ape Man" in 1932," The Thin Man" in 1934," San Francisco" in 1936, and six popular musicals with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Director for" The Thin Man" and" San Francisco", and directed four actors to Oscar nominations: William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Norma Shearer, and Robert Morley. Known as a reliable craftsman who made his films on schedule and under budget, he earned the name" One Take Woody" for his quick and efficient style of filming. <SEP> Beside the Shadow of a Corpse( in original Italian: Inginocchiati straniero ... I cadaveri non fanno ombra!) is a 1970 spaghetti western directed by Demofilo Fidani. Dead Men Do n't Make Shadows, aka Stranger That Kneels <SEP> Half-A-Dollar-Bill is a surviving 1924 American silent drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Anna Q. Nilsson. It was produced by an independent company and released through Metro Pictures. <SEP> Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 neo-noir comedy-mystery film directed by Carl Reiner. Starring Steve Martin and Rachel Ward, the film is both a parody of and a homage to "film noir" and the pulp detective movies of the 1940s. The title refers to Martin's character telling a story about a woman obsessed with plaid in a scene that was ultimately cut from the film. Edited by Bud Molin, "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" is partly a collage film, incorporating clips from 19 vintage films. They are combined with new footage of Martin and other actors similarly shot in black-and-white, with the result that the original dialogue and acting of the classic films become part of a completely different story. Among the actors who appear from classic films are Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Brian Donlevy, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Burt Lancaster, Charles Laughton, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price, Barbara Stanwyck, and Lana Turner. This was the last film for both costume designer Edith Head and composer Miklós Rózsa. <SEP> Ten Dead Men is a 2008 thriller film directed by Ross Boyask, produced by Phil Hobden, and starring Brendan Carr, Terry Stone, Doug Bradley, Pooja Shah, Ben Shockley, Lee Latchford- Evans, JC Mac, and Tom Gerald. It is the follow- up to the cult independent film" Left for Dead". Produced by the same company,( Modern Life?) " Ten Dead Men" features many of the same actors as its predecessor. " Ten Dead Men" was The film released in UK, France, Indonesia and Japan. <SEP> As director, Fidani specialized in spaghetti westerns and used many different pseudonyms including Miles Deem, Lucky Dickinson, Alex Demos, and Danilo Dani. Many of the films were westerns, in which he used the names of well- known characters such as Butch Cassidy, Macho Callahan, Django and Sartana, as well as titles that were variations of popular titles. Besides his westerns, he directed crime films, sex comedies, and a giallo. Fidani's regular actors included Jack Betts( also known as Hunt Powers), Gordon Mitchell, Jeff Cameron and Klaus Kinski. Demofilo Fidani( born February 8, 1914 on a steamship bound for Cagliari; died April 4, 1994) was an Italian film director( 24 films), set designer( more than 200 films), painter, and a regarded medium and author.