Question: Which film has the director died earlier, Bred In Old Kentucky or Apology For Murder?

The plot of" Apology for Murder" is a blatant rip-off of the seminal film noir" Double Indemnity" which was released the previous year. The production company Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the B movie studios of Hollywood ’s Poverty Row, wanted to take advantage of" Double Indemnity's" huge success and originally intended to call the film" Single Indemnity". Apology for Murder is a 1945 American film noir directed by Sam Newfield and starring Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Russell Hicks and Charles D. Brown. However Paramount Pictures, the production company of" Double Indemnity", got wind of it and obtained an injunction. PRC then changed the title to" Apology for Murder". Much acclaimed B movie director Edgar G. Ulmer, who was working at PRC at the time" Apology for Murder" was made, claimed during a conversation with Peter Bogdanovich that he wrote the original" Single Indemnity" script for producer Sigmund Neufeld. However, he erroneously believed that the film made from it was finally released under the title" Blonde Ice", which is a totally different film produced by Film Classics. <SEP> Marked for Murder is a 1945 American film directed by Elmer Clifton. <SEP> In Old Kentucky is a 1919 American silent drama film produced by Louis B. Mayer and distributed through First National Attractions, later First National Pictures. The picture was directed by Marshall Neilan and starred Anita Stewart. It was based on the play" In Old Kentucky" by Charles T. Dazey. Neilan and Mayer worked often together at this time, but after Mayer became head of MGM in 1924, the two had a falling out which revealed each man disliking the other fiercely. Neilan was vocal about his dislike of Mayer, which damaged his Hollywood career. Later, not finding work at the major studios, Neilan ended his career directing B movies. Later, as head of MGM, Mayer had the film remade in 1927. In 1935, Will Rogers made a sound version at Fox. MGM has preserved the film. <SEP> He appeared in 327 films between 1905 and 1932. He also directed 134 films between 1913 and 1926. He was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack, aged 54. He was the brother of actor John T. Dillon. Edward Dillon( January 1, 1879 – July 11, 1933) was an American actor, director and screenwriter of the silent era. <SEP> 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. 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. 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> Bred in Old Kentucky is a 1926 American silent sports film directed by Edward Dillon and starring Viola Dana, Jerry Miley and Jed Prouty.