Question: Are the directors of films Little Big Man (Film) and Jack And Jill (1917 Film) both from the same country?

While broadly categorized as a western, or an epic, the film encompasses several literary/ film genres, including comedy, drama and adventure. It is about a white male child raised by the Cheyenne nation during the 19th century. The film is largely concerned with contrasting the lives of American pioneers and Native Americans throughout the progression of the boy's life. Little Big Man is a 1970 American western film directed by Arthur Penn and based on the novel" Little Big Man" by Thomas Berger. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan. It is a revisionist Western: Native Americans are depicted sympathetically, and the United States Cavalry are depicted as villains. The revision uses elements of satire and tragedy to examine prejudice and injustice. " Little Big Man" is an anti-establishment film of the period, indirectly protesting America's involvement in the Vietnam War by portraying the U.S. military negatively. In 2014," Little Big Man" was deemed" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. <SEP> Closely associated with the American New Wave, Penn directed critically acclaimed films throughout the 1960s such as the drama "The Chase" (1966), the biographical crime film "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) and the comedy "Alice's Restaurant" (1969). Arthur Hiller Penn (September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010) was an American director and producer of film, television and theater. He also got attention for his revisionist Western "Little Big Man" (1970). By the mid-1970s his films were received with much less enthusiasm. In the 1990s he returned to stage and television direction and production, including an executive producer role for the crime series "Law & Order". By his death in 2010, he had been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Director, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, two Emmys, and two Directors Guild of America Awards. He was the recipient of several honorary accolades, including a Honorary Golden Bear, a Tony Award, and an Akira Kurosawa Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival. <SEP> A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion picture colony of the 1910s and early 1920s, he directed 59 silent films between 1914 and 1922 and acted in 27 between 1913 and 1915. Taylor's murder on 1 February 1922, along with other Hollywood scandals, such as the Roscoe Arbuckle trial, led to a frenzy of sensationalist and often fabricated newspaper reports. The murder remains an official cold case. William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Anglo-Irish-American director and actor. <SEP> The Flame of the Yukon( 1926) is a silent Northwoods adventure- drama film starring Seena Owen and directed by George Melford. The film is based on a story by Monte Katterjohn and was distributed by Cecil DeMille's PDC( Producers Distributing Corporation). The film is a remake of a 1917 film that had starred Dorothy Dalton. The 1917 film survives at the Library of Congress. The 1926 film, once thought to be lost, is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. <SEP> Ronald Jaimeer C. Humarang( born December 15, 1994 in Agoncillo, Batangas, Philippines) is a Filipino singer and actor. His career started when he joined" Little Big Star" where became a major part of the Big Division of Little Big Star Season I, along with the likes of Sam Concepcion and Charice Pempengco. He has also been part of the Little Big Star ’s album with his own rendition of" Iisa Lang Tayo". He did not make it to the top this time. He auditioned for Little Big Superstar, the spin- off of Little Big Star, wherein he emerged as the" First Honor" or the" Champion". <SEP> The film stars Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Leo Houck, Don Bailey, J.H. Holland, and Jack Hoxie. The film was released on November 12, 1917, by Paramount Pictures. Jack and Jill is a 1917 American Western silent film directed by William Desmond Taylor and written by Gardner Hunting and Margaret Turnbull. This film is now lost.