Question: Which film has the director who died earlier, The Land Of Promise or The Gangster (1965 Film)?

The Canadian is an extant 1926 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players- Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on a 1913 Broadway play," The Land of Promise", by W. Somerset Maugham. The film was directed by William Beaudine and starred Thomas Meighan. Meighan had costarred with Billie Burke in a 1917 silent film based on the same story," The Land of Promise". In both films he plays the same part. This film is preserved in the Library of Congress. <SEP> The Gangster( Spanish: El gángster) is a 1965 Mexican film. It was directed by Luis Alcoriza. <SEP> The Land of Promise is a 1917 American silent comedy drama film produced by Famous Players- Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on the 1913 play" The Land of Promise" by W. Somerset Maugham, in which Burke starred. The film was remade in 1926 by Paramount as" The Canadian" with Thomas Meighan reprising his role as Frank Taylor. It was directed by Joseph Kaufman and starred Billie Burke and Thomas Meighan. <SEP> Alcoriza was born in Spain and established himself in Mexico from 1940. His 1962 film" Tlayucan" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1987 film" Life Is Most Important" was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival. Luis Alcoriza de la Vega( September 5, 1918 – December 3, 1992) was a respected Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor. <SEP> Joseph Kaufman He was born in Washington, D.C. and died in New York City very early on during the influenza pandemic of 1918. His wife was silent film star Ethel Clayton. Kaufman started out as an actor appearing on Broadway in 1903 with Maude Adams in" The Pretty Sister of Jose". He eventually changed to acting in and then directing silent films, his output being numerous short films. ( 1882 – February 1, 1918) was an American silent film actor and director prominent during the World War I years. As American films began to expand to feature length Kaufman followed suit and proved particularly adept and popular at directing beautiful Broadway actresses including his wife Ethel Clayton. He directed Pauline Frederick, Marguerite Clark, and Billie Burke. His last film," The Song of Songs"( 1918), starred Elsie Ferguson. As actor he is reported to have had three teeth knocked out in a screen fight with actor Earl Metcalfe. Following his death in February 1918, both of his parents died—his mother on April 9, 1918 and his father on April 18, 1918. <SEP> Daniel P. Seaton was a doctor, African Methodist Episcopalian (A.M.E.) minister, and author. He traveled to the Middle East and wrote "The land of promise or The Bible land and its revelation". It was illustrated with engravings of "some of the most important places in Palestine and Syria" and published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by the Publishing House of the A.M.E. Church in 1895. The book advocated for the conversion of Jews to Christianity and their return to Palestine. Seaton was born in 1835 in Reisterstown, Maryland. His home in the Lincoln area outside of Washington D.C was designed by African American architect Isaiah Hatton. Seaton established a church in the community and served as a doctor. He was a member of the Good Samaritans. The Seaton Memorial African Methodist Episcopalian Church in Lincoln Park, Rockville, Maryland is named for him.