Title: Riders of the Purple Sage (1931 film)
Content:  Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film based upon the novel by Zane Grey, directed by Hamilton MacFadden, photographed by George Schneiderman, and starring George O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill. The picture was released by the Fox Film Corporation with a running time of 58 minutes and remains the third of five screen versions. It was the first sound version. The movie was followed later the same year by a similar adaptation of the novel's sequel, The Rainbow Trail, also starring O'Brien.
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage (1996 film)
Content:  Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1996 American Western television film based on the novel by Zane Grey, directed by Charles Haid, adapted by Gil Dennis, and starring Ed Harris as Lassiter and Amy Madigan as Jane Withersteen.
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film)
Content:  Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1941 American Western film based on the novel by Zane Grey, directed by James Tinling, and starring George Montgomery as Lassiter and Mary Howard as Jane Withersteen. The picture is the fourth of five screen adaptations of Grey's novel produced across an eight-decade span.
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage (1918 film)
Content:  Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring William Farnum, Mary Mersch, and William Scott. The film is about a former Texas Ranger who goes after a group of Mormons who have abducted his married sister. This Frank Lloyd silent film was the first of five film adaptations of the novel.
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage
Content: Riders of the Purple Sage (1918), starring William Farnum and Mary Mersch ; Riders of the Purple Sage (1925), starring Tom Mix and Mabel Ballin ; Riders of the Purple Sage (1931), starring George O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill ; Riders of the Purple Sage (1941), starring George Montgomery and Mary Howard ; Riders of the Purple Sage (1996), starring Ed Harris and Amy Madigan Riders of the Purple Sage has been adapted to film five times. The first film version of the novel was the silent film Riders of the Purple Sage (1918) starring William Farnum as Lassiter and Mary Mersch as Jane. In later film versions the villains are corrupt judges or lawyers, not polygamous Mormons. A second silent film version was released in 1925, starring Tom Mix as Lassiter and Mabel Ballin as Jane. The first sound version appeared in 1931, starring George O'Brien as Lassiter and Marguerite Churchill as Jane. In 1941, a fourth film version was released, starring George Montgomery as Jim Lassiter and Mary Howard as Jane. Fifty-five years later, a television film, Riders of the Purple Sage (1996), was released, starring Ed Harris as Lassiter and Amy Madigan as Jane. 
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage (1996 film)
Content:  Variety described the film as "moody" and saying that, "Charles Haid directs efficiently, with occasional moments of artiness — including filming a falling horse from several angles and cross-editing them, and action in a genuinely spooky thunderstorm."
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage (1925 film)
Content:  Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Tom Mix, Mabel Ballin, and Warner Oland. Based on the 1912 novel Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, the film is about a former Texas Ranger who pursues a corrupt lawyer who abducted his married sister and niece. His search leads him to a remote Arizona ranch and the love of a good woman. The film is preserved today.
Title: Purple sage
Content: Riders of the Purple Sage is a novel by Zane Grey, and several films based on the novel. ; Riders of the Purple Sage (band) is a name used by three separate western bands in the United States. ; New Riders of the Purple Sage is an American country rock band; New Riders of the Purple Sage is their debut album. ; Purple Sage, Wyoming, is a census-designated place in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. ; Open-source software for arithmetic geometry, closely related to SageMath 
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage (1931 film)
Content: George O'Brien as Jim Lassiter ; Marguerite Churchill as Jane Withersteen ; Noah Beery, Sr. as Judge Dyer ; Stanley Fields as Oldring ; Lester Dorr as Judkins 
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage
Content:  Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time."

Question: Who was the director of Riders of the Purple Sage?
Answer: James Tinling.