Who is the hero of the novels Greenmantle and Mr Standfast?
Mr Standfast the Morning" (1929). Mr Standfast Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being "Greenmantle" (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. The title refers to a character in John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", to which there are many other references in the novel; Hannay uses a copy of "Pilgrim's Progress" to decipher coded messages from his contacts, and
Richard Hannay series "Hannay" (1988–1989). Orson Welles portrayed Hannay in a radio play of "The Thirty-Nine Steps" in 1938, as did Glenn Ford in 1948 on "Studio One", Herbert Marshall on "Suspense" in 1952 and David Robb in the BBC Radio 4 adaptations of "The Thirty-Nine Steps", "Greenmantle", "Mr Standfast" and "The Three Hostages". The 1973 BBC documentary "Omnibus: The British Hero" had Christopher Cazenove playing Hannay in a scene from "Mr. Standfast", as well as a number of other such heroic characters, including Beau Geste, Bulldog Drummond and James Bond. Barry Foster played Hannay in a 1977 television adaptation of "The