| EISENSTEIN | Soviet film director known for Battleship Potemkin and Ivan the Terrible (10) |
| WESCRAVEN | American film director known for his work in the horror genre (3,6) |
| JOHNFORD | Late great US film director known for his westerns (4,4) |
| OLIVER | ___ Stone, Oscar-winning US film director known for his political documentary films (6) |
| SERGEIEISENSTEIN | Soviet film director, best known for the 1925 film Battleship Potemkin |
| JOHNHUGHES | Writer/director known for his coming-of-age films |
| MIDSHIPMAN | ----------Easy, novel on which the 1935 Soviet film Baltic Sailors is based (10) |
| VIBRATIONS | About time Boris and Ivan developed common feelings (10) |
| MANTOVANI | A bloke and Ivan the Terrible go round to the man with the singing strings (9) |
| TSARS | Alexander the Great and Ivan the Terrible, e.g. |
| CZARS | Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible |
| EDWARDS | Name the US film director known especially for the Pink Panther films, Blake ... (7) |
| HITCHCOCK | Film director known as 'the master of suspense' (9) |
| SERGEI | First name of the Soviet film director Eisenstein (6) |
| CURTIS | Richard _, screenwriter and director known for films such as Notting Hill and Love Actually (6) |
| CECILB | ______ DeMille: Hollywood director known for epics such as The Ten Commandments. (5,1) |
| NOLAN | Director known for Memento, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk, Christopher - (5) |
| GURUDUTT | Iconic Bollywood director known for movies such as Pyaasa and Kaagaz ke Phool (4,4) |
| BROOKS | Mel ___: director known for his 1976 homage film Silent Movie (6) |
| CARPENTER | John - - -, writer and director known for horror films (9) |
