Question: Which film has the director born first, The Beast Of Yucca Flats or The Secret In Their Eyes?

Coleman C. Francis( January 24, 1919 – January 15, 1973) was an American actor, writer, producer and director. He was best known for his film trilogy consisting of" The Beast of Yucca Flats"( 1961)," The Skydivers"( 1963) and" Red Zone Cuba"( 1966), all three of which were filmed in the general vicinity of Santa Clarita, California. Hallmarks of Francis' films include preoccupation with light aircraft and parachuting, coffee or cigarettes serving as props or centers of conversation and vigilante- style gunning down of suspects without trial at the films' conclusions. Francis and his films have gained a cult status as a result of their appearances on the comedy series" Mystery Science Theater 3000", where they became infamous for their poor production values, repetitive plot devices, meandering and incomprehensible storylines, and stilted acting. Some critics have characterized Francis as being the worst director of all- time, even suggesting that he may surpass Ed Wood in terms of ineptitude. <SEP> The film is a joint production of Argentine and Spanish companies. Using a nonlinear narrative, the film depicts a judiciary employee and his boss, a law clerk, in 1974, played by Ricardo Darín and Soledad Villamil, as they investigate a rape and murder case, while also following the characters 25 years later reminiscing over the case and unearthing the buried romance between them. The film received awards in both Hollywood and Spain, notably the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, making Argentina, with 1985's" The Official Story", the first country in Latin America to win it twice. Three weeks before, it had received the Spanish equivalent with the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film. The Secret in Their Eyes is a 2009 crime drama film directed, co- written, produced and edited by Juan José Campanella, based on the novel" La pregunta de sus ojos The Question in Their Eyes") by Eduardo Sacheri, who also co-wrote the screenplay. At the time of its release, it became the second highest- grossing film in Argentine history, surpassed only by 1975's" Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf". In a 2016 poll of international critics for the BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century this was voted one of the 100 greatest motion pictures since 2000. <SEP> Progress Island U.S.A. is a 1973 short subject film made by the Puerto Rico Economic Development Administration to promote the burgeoning U.S. Commonwealth. The film, produced by Fucci/ Stone Productions, Inc in 1973, presents a description of Puerto Rico of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It shows some of what the island had to offer at that time. The commercial short, which is only 13 minutes long, explains that Puerto Rico is" American in every respect" except for its" 360 days of sunshine," due to the results of Operation Bootstrap. The short appeared in" Mystery Science Theater 3000" episode 621, as support for the main feature," The Beast of Yucca Flats". <SEP> It was produced by Anthony Cardoza, Roland Morin and Jim Oliphant. The film stars Swedish former wrestler Tor Johnson as" the Beast". The Beast of Yucca Flats( released to television as Atomic Monster: The Beast of Yucca Flats) is a 1961 B-movie horror film written and directed by Coleman Francis. It starred Anthony Cardoza, Coleman Francis and Jim Oliphant in bit parts, as well as Conrad Brooks in a very small role. Director Francis cast his two sons( Ronald and Alan Francis) in the film as the two lost boys. The plot concerns a Soviet scientist named Joseph Jaworsky( Tor Johnson), who defects and flees to a Nevada Test Site called Yucca Flats, only to be turned into a mindless monster by atomic radiation, stalking the desert. The film has very little dialogue and most of the speech is done by omniscient narration. Some critics have characterized the film as one of the worst science fiction horror films made, and one of the all- time worst films of any kind, even suggesting that it may be worse than Ed Wood's legendarily bad" Plan 9 from Outer Space". In 1995, the television comedy series" Mystery Science Theater 3000" featured" The Beast of Yucca Flats", helping the film develop a cult status. <SEP> Juan José Campanella( born July 19, 1959) is an Argentine television and film director, writer and producer. He is a prominent figure of cinema in his country, and achieved worldwide fame with the release of" The Secret in Their Eyes"( 2009), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. <SEP> The Skydivers is a 1963 film produced by Anthony Cardoza and written and directed by Coleman Francis, who together also made" The Beast of Yucca Flats". It stars actress Kevin Casey as Beth, along with, also from" The Beast of Yucca Flats", Eric Tomlin as Joe, Anthony Cardoza as Harry, and Marcia Knight as Suzy. The film contains performances by influential Nashville guitarist Jimmy Bryant. After being forgotten for three decades the film got a second life in 1994, serving the basis for a" Mystery Science Theater 3000" episode( during which TV's Frank describes it as like" without the lucid plot"). It is generally considered to be the most watchable Coleman Francis film, albeit still of subpar quality.