Who directed the film, based on the 1915 adventure novel by John Buchan, in which the British actess Peggy Simpson appeared?
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Peggy Simpson Peggy Simpson (4 July 1913 in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire – January 1994 in London) was a British actress. She appeared twice for director Alfred Hitchcock in "The 39 Steps" (1935) and "Young and Innocent" (1937).
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The 39 Steps (1935 film) The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. Very loosely based on the 1915 adventure novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps" by John Buchan, the film is about an everyman civilian in London, Richard Hannay, who becomes caught up in preventing an organization of spies called the 39 Steps from stealing British military secrets. After being mistakenly accused of the murder of a counter-espionage agent, Hannay goes on the run to Scotland with an attractive woman in the hopes of stopping the spy ring and clearing his name.
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The Qualified Adventurer The Qualified Adventurer is a 1925 British silent adventure film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Matheson Lang, Genevieve Townsend and Fred Raynham. It was based on the novel "The Qualified Adventurer" by Selwyn Jepson.
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Boom Town (film) Boom Town is a 1940 American adventure film starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, and Hedy Lamarr, and directed by Jack Conway. The supporting cast features Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, and Chill Wills. A story written by James Edward Grant in "Cosmopolitan" magazine entitled "A Lady Comes to Burkburnett" provided the inspiration for the film. The film was produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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The Lucky Horseshoe The Lucky Horseshoe is a 1925 American Western silent film directed by John G. Blystone and starring Tom Mix, Billie Dove, and Malcolm Waite. Based on a story by Robert Lord, the film is about a ranch foreman who assumes responsibility for the ranch following the owner's death. He also cares for the owner's daughter who is taken to Europe by an aunt. Two year later the woman returns from Europe with her new wealthy fiancée and plans to hold their wedding at the ranch, which the foreman has turned into a successful tourist destination. The foreman's feelings for the woman have not been diminished by the years, and after learning some damaging information about the fiancée, the foreman must find a way to stop the wedding.
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The Rogues of London The Rogues of London is a 1915 British silent thriller film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Blanche Forsythe, Fred Paul and Maud Yates.
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A London Flat Mystery A London Flat Mystery is a 1915 British silent crime film directed by Walter West and starring Vera Cornish, George Foley and Reginald Stevens. It is also known by the alternative title The Mystery of a London Flat. The screenplay concerns a Scotland Yard detective who believes two recent murders are linked and sets out to hunt down the killer.
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Storm Over Ceylon Storm Over Ceylon (German: Das Todesauge von Ceylon, Italian: Tempesta su Ceylon) is a 1963 adventure film directed by  Gerd Oswald and Giovanni Roccardi and starring  Lex Barker, Ann Smyrner and Magali Noël . It was made as a co-production between West Germany, Italy and France.
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The Lady Vanishes The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder based on the 1936 novel "The Wheel Spins" by Ethel Lina White, the film is about a beautiful English tourist travelling by train in continental Europe who discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to have disappeared from the train. After her fellow passengers deny ever having seen the elderly lady, the young woman is helped by a young musicologist, the two proceeding to search the train for clues to the old lady's disappearance.
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The Firm of Girdlestone (film) The Firm of Girdlestone is a 1915 British silent drama film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring Edna Flugrath, Fred Groves and Charles Rock. It is an adaptation of the 1890 novel "The Firm of Girdlestone" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Channel Incident Channel Incident is a 1940 British short drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Peggy Ashcroft, Gordon Harker and Robert Newton. The film was a propaganda effort, made during the Second World War, which depicts the owner of a yacht heading across the Channel to help evacuate British troops from Dunkirk.
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The History of Mr. Polly (film) The History of Mr. Polly is a 1949 British film, based on the 1910 comic novel "The History of Mr. Polly" by H.G. Wells. It was directed by Anthony Pelissier (who is also credited with the script) and stars John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins and Finlay Currie. It was the first adaptation of one of Wells' works to be produced after his death in 1946.
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Godless Men Godless Men is a 1920 American silent adventure drama film directed by Reginald Barker and produced and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures. It stars Russell Simpson and James "Jim" Mason as a father and son. It is based on a Saturday Evening Post short story "Black Pawl" by Ben Ames Williams.
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Sabotage (1936 film) Sabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, and John Loder. It is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent", about a woman who discovers that her husband is an agent terrorist. "Sabotage" should not be confused with Hitchcock's film "Secret Agent", also released in 1936, but based on the stories of W. Somerset Maugham
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The Sea Beast The Sea Beast is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Millard Webb, starring John Barrymore and Dolores Costello. The film was a major commercial success and one of the biggest pictures of 1926. "The Sea Beast" is an adaptation of the novel "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville, a story about a monomaniacal hunt for a great white whale. However, the film alters the novel's plotline by establishing prequel and sequel elements that are not in the original story—such as the romancing of Esther and Ahab's safe return, respectively—and substitutes a happy ending for Melville's original tragic one. Some of the characters in the film do not appear in Melville's original novel.
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The Pursuit of Pamela The Pursuit of Pamela is a 1920 British silent comedy drama film directed by Harold M. Shaw, starring Edna Flugrath, Templar Powell and Douglas Munro, and based on a play by C. B. Fernald.
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Dulcie's Adventure Dulcie's Adventure is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by James Kirkwood starring Mary Miles Minter and Bessie Banks. The script for the film was adapted by William Pigott from a novel written by R. Strauss.
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The Lure (1914 film) The Lure is a 1914 film directed by Alice Guy Blaché. The cast features James O'Neill, Fraunie Fraunholz, Kirah Markham, and Claire Whitney. "The Lure" was an adaptation of a controversial play giving a sympathetic depiction of social pressures leading women into prostitution.
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Dancing Pirate Dancing Pirate is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan. It is the third film shot in the three strip Technicolor process and the first musical in that format. Produced by the makers of "Becky Sharp", the film was based on the December 1930 "Colliers Magazine" story "Glorious Buccaneer" by Emma-Lindsay Squier a serious and action filled romance that may have been inspired by the story of Joseph Chapman. The film features the debut of stage star Charles Collins and the cast includes Rita Hayworth as one of The Royal Cansino Dancers. Other dancers in the film were Pat Nixon and Marjorie Reynolds.
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Captain January (novel) Captain January is an 1891 children's novel, written by Laura E. Richards, and later transformed into two films, the 1924 silent film "Captain January", starring Baby Peggy and the 1936 musical film "Captain January", starring Shirley Temple. The story is about a lighthouse keeper and his little girl, Star.
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Anna Karenina (1915 film) Anna Karenina is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Betty Nansen. It was the first American adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The film is considered to be lost.
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Bella Donna (1915 film) Bella Donna was a 1915 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and the Charles Frohman Company, starring Pauline Frederick, and based on the play "Bella Donna" by James Bernard Fagan adapted from the novel of the same name by Robert Smythe Hichens.