Question: Are director of film The Iceman Cometh (1973 Film) and director of film Crime And Punishment U.S.A. from the same country?

The screenplay was written by Thomas Quinn Curtiss, based on Eugene O'Neill's 1939 play of the same name. The film was produced by Ely Landau for the American Film Theatre, which presented thirteen film adaptations of plays in the United States from 1973 to 1975. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but was n't entered into the main competition. This was the last film for both Robert Ryan and Fredric March. March developed prostate cancer in 1970, causing him to retire from acting, while Ryan died before the film's release. The Iceman Cometh is a 1973 American drama film directed by John Frankenheimer. It was a minute short of four hours in length, and became the first film to have two intermissions. <SEP> Denis Sanders( January 21, 1929 – December 10, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer who directed the debut performances of Robert Redford, George Hamilton, Sydney Pollack and Tom Skerritt in the 1962 film" War Hunt". He won two Academy Awards, the first for Best Short Subject in 1955 for" A Time Out of War" that had served as his master's degree thesis at UCLA and which he co-scripted with his brother Terry Sanders; and the second for Best Documentary in 1970 for" Czechoslovakia 1968". In 1958, he teamed up again with Terry Sanders to adapt Norman Mailer's World War II novel" The Naked and the Dead". He was born in New York City and died from a heart attack in San Diego, California, where he was professor and film maker in residence at San Diego State University. His daughter, Victoria Sanders, is a literary agent and film producer. <SEP> The film was released on November 1, 1959, is 96 minutes in length, and shot in black- and- white. In addition to making some changes in the plot and characterizations, it sets the tale, not in 19th- century Russia, but in mid-20th- century Los Angeles. Crime and Punishment U.S.A.( 1959) is an American feature film, directed by Denis Sanders, and is — as the" New York Times" put it, “ a beat generation version ” — of the novel" Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The script was written by Walter Newman, and stars George Hamilton, in his first screen role, as “ Robert Cole, ” the character based on Raskolnikov, the protagonist of the Russian novel. <SEP> John McLiam( born John Williams; January 24, 1918 – April 16, 1994) was a film and television actor noted for his skill at different accents. His film appearances include" My Fair Lady"( 1964)," In Cold Blood"( 1967), John Frankenheimer's movie of" The Iceman Cometh"( 1973)," The Missouri Breaks"( 1976), and" First Blood"( 1982). He was a guest star in numerous television series and wrote a Broadway play," The Sin of Pat Muldoon". <SEP> Among his credits were "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962), "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), "Seven Days in May" (1964), "The Train" (1965), "Seconds" (1966), "Grand Prix" (1966), "French Connection II" (1975), "Black Sunday" (1977), and "Ronin" (1998). He won four Emmy Awards—three consecutive—in the 1990s for directing the television movies "Against the WallThe Burning SeasonAndersonville", and "George Wallace", the last of which also received a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film. Frankenheimer's 30 feature films and over 50 plays for television were notable for their influence on contemporary thought. He became a pioneer of the "modern-day political thriller", having begun his career at the peak of the Cold War. He was technically highly accomplished from his days in live television; many of his films were noted for creating "psychological dilemmas" for his male protagonists along with having a strong "sense of environment," similar in style to films by director Sidney Lumet, for whom he had earlier worked as assistant director. He developed a "tremendous propensity for exploring political situations" which would ensnare his characters. John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Movie critic Leonard Maltin writes that "in his time [1960s]... Frankenheimer worked with the top writers, producers and actors in a series of films that dealt with issues that were just on top of the moment—things that were facing us all." <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.