Riders of the Purple Sage (1941 film)
Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1941 film based on the Western 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.
S. M. Sriramulu Naidu
Subbarayalu Munuswami Sriramulu Naidu( 1910- 1976), also known as Sreeramulu Naidu, was an Indian businessman and movie producer from Coimbatore who founded the Pakshiraja Studios in 1945.
He was responsible for the early development of the Tamil film industry in Coimbatore and was called the" Coimbatore movie mogul".
He has directed and produced films predominantly in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam languages, while also having made one Kannada film.
In 1944, he was implicated as one of the accused in the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case and served his sentence till 1945 when he was discharged due to lack of evidence.
James Tinling
James Tinling( May 8, 1889 in Seattle – May 14, 1967 in Los Angeles) was an American film director.
He worked during the silent period as a prop boy and stuntman, and directed primarily for 20th Century Fox in the 1930s and 1940s.
He has been cited as one of the best B-film directors for Fox, known for directing numerous westerns and lighthearted films, including" Charlie Chan in Shanghai"( 1935).
The Rainbow Trail (1932 film)
The Rainbow Trail is a 1932 Western film directed by David Howard and starring George O'Brien.
The picture is an adaptation of Zane Grey's novel of the same name and a sequel to the 1931 film" Riders of the Purple Sage", which also stars O'Brien.
Buck Page
Buck Page (June 18, 1922 — August 21, 2006) founded the first western band known as Riders of the Purple Sage.
Page, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, began performing on local radio at age 11.
He played string bass and rhythm guitar for a western band, The Valley Ranch Boys.
Two years later he formed a staff band for Pittsburgh radio station KDKA that he named Riders of the Purple Sage after the title of the Zane Grey novel.
Riders of the Purple Sage performed five hour-long shows a week on KDKA from 1936–1938.
The band later moved to New York City and performed on radio station WOR and at a nightclub, Village Barn.
Page served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
During the war another western band using the name Riders of the Purple Sage was organized in California by singer Foy Willing.
Page moved to the West Coast in the 1950s.
He and Willing eventually met and the two men formed a lifelong friendship.
Page, who could play 21 instruments, worked as a studio musician in California.
He played guitar on the original recording of the theme song for the NBC western series "Bonanza" and also served as background musician for the TV shows "Wagon Train" and "Laramie".
According to Bob Bain, however, the only one of the four guitarists on the "Bonanza" theme recording still living, Page was not one of the guitarists on that session.
In the late 1950s, Page lived in Hesperia, California where he owned and ran a restaurant.
He also rodeoed in the summer circuit, traveling with rodeo champion Eddy Akridge.
In the 1960s Page worked for the Baldwin Piano Company and helped engineers develop the Supersound amplifier.
Page received the Country/Western Living Legend Award from the North American Country Music Associations International in 2001.
His first solo recording, "Right Place to Start", was released on CD in December 2005.
Page's last public concert was in July 2006 in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he performed before a crowd of several thousand people during a National Day of the Cowboy celebration.
Page died in his apartment at the Burbank Senior Artists Colony in Burbank, California.
His death was attributed to natural causes.
Skip Battin
Clyde" Skip" Battin( February 18, 1934 – July 6, 2003) was an American singer- songwriter, bassist, performer, and recording artist.
He was a member of the Byrds, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
Pavalakodi (1949 film)
Pavalakodi is a 1949 Indian Tamil- language mythological film produced and directed by S. M. Sriramulu Naidu.
The film featured T. R. Mahalingam, T. E. Varadan and T. R. Rajakumari in the lead roles.
David Nelson (musician)
David Nelson( born June 12, 1943, in Seattle, Washington, U.S.) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter.
He is perhaps best known as a co-founder and longtime member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage.
Foy Willing
Foy Willing( May 14, 1914 – July 14, 1978) was a singer, songwriter, musician, and bandleader who performed Western music and appeared in Western movies.
He formed the Western band Riders of the Purple Sage.
Riders of the Purple Sage (1925 film)
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.

Question: Are the directors of both films Riders Of The Purple Sage (1941 Film) and Pavalakodi (1949 Film) from the same country?
Answer: no