Question: Walter Lang directed a 1939 American drama film loosely based on a novel from what year?

Context articles: The Night Flyer (film)
The Golden Web
The King and I (1956 film)
Whom the Gods Destroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Little Princess (1939 film)
Can-Can (film)
Fury (1936 film)
Arthur Roberts (editor)
Susannah of the Mounties (film)

The Night Flyer is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Walter Lang.
 A print of the film exists in the film archive of the Library of Congress.
 Parts of the film were shot in Thistle, Utah.
The Golden Web is a lost 1926 American drama film directed by Walter Lang and featuring Boris Karloff.
The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck.
 The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical "The King and I", based in turn on the novel "Anna and the King of Siam" by Margaret Landon.
 That novel in turn was based on memoirs written by Anna Leonowens, who became school teacher to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s.
 Leonowens' stories were autobiographical, although various elements of them have been called into question.
 The film stars Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner.
Whom the Gods Destroy is a 1934 American drama film directed by Walter Lang.
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright.
 She is best known for the three children's novels "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (published in 1885–1886), "A Little Princess" (1905), and "The Secret Garden" (1911).
The Little Princess is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang.
 The screenplay by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris is loosely based on the novel "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
 The film was the first Shirley Temple movie to be filmed completely in Technicolor.
 It was also her last major success as a child star.
Can-Can is a 1960 musical film made by Suffolk-Cummings productions and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
 It was directed by Walter Lang, produced by Jack Cummings and Saul Chaplin, from a screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer, loosely based on the musical play by Abe Burrows with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, with some songs replaced by songs from earlier Porter musicals.
 Art direction was by Jack Martin Smith and Lyle R. Wheeler, costume design by Irene Sharaff and dance staging by Hermes Pan.
 The film was photographed in Todd-AO.
 It was, after "Ben-Hur", the top grossing film of 1960, although it was a box office disappointment failing to make back its production costs.
Fury is a 1936 American drama film directed by Fritz Lang which tells the story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who narrowly escapes being lynched and the revenge he seeks.
 The picture was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stars Sylvia Sidney and Tracy, with a supporting cast featuring Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis and Walter Brennan.
 Loosely based on the events surrounding the Brooke Hart murder, the movie was adapted by Bartlett Cormack and Lang from the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna.
 "Fury" was Lang's first American film.
Arthur Roberts July 17, 1890 – February 5, 1961), also known as Arthur E. Roberts, was an American film editor who edited over 100 films during his almost 30 year career.
 He began ending towards the end of the silent era of the film industry, his first film being 1927's "The College Hero", directed by Walter Lang.
 His last film was Republic's "Lay That Rifle Down" in 1955, after which he spent a brief period as the editor for the television series, "Lassie", before retiring in 1956.
 During his career he would work with many famous directors, including Frank Capra (on several films, including "The Donovan Affair"), Lowell Sherman (on "The Royal Bed"), William Seiter (on several films, including "Way Back Home"), Edward Cline (on "Cracked Nuts"), George Cukor ("A Bill of Divorcement"), Dorothy Arzner (the first female member of the DGA, on "Christopher Strong"), Anthony Mann ("Strangers in the Night"), George Archainbaud ("Girls of the Big House"), Fritz Lang ("House by the River"),
Susannah of the Mounties is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang and William A. Seiter and starring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, and Margaret Lockwood.
 Based on the 1936 novel "Susannah of the Mounties" by Muriel Denison, the film is about an orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West who is taken in by a Mountie and his girlfriend.
 Following additional Indian attacks, the Mountie is saved from the stake by the young girl's intervention with the Indian chief.