The Rough Riders (1927)
"THE SWEETEST STORY EVER TOLD---AGAINST THE MOST ROMANTIC BACKGROUND EVER SEEN!"
The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898. This film is lost.
- Date of release
- 1927-09-30
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 2h 17m
- Genres
- War, Action, Drama
- Director
- Victor Fleming
Casting
- Noah Beery — Hell's Bells
- Charles Farrell — Stewart Van Brunt
- George Bancroft — Happy Joe
- Mary Astor — Dolly
- Frank Hopper — Theodore Roosevelt
- Charles Emmett Mack — Bert Henley
- Fred Lindsay — Leonard Wood
- Fred Kohler — Sergeant Stanton
- Billy Seay — Stewart's Son
Interesting facts
The Rough Riders is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Victor Fleming, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Noah Beery, Sr., Charles Farrell, George Bancroft, and Mary Astor. Due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was also prepared early in 1928. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The picture is fictional account of Theodore Roosevelt's military unit in Cuba. This film had an alternate release title, The Trumpet Call. The cinematography was by James Wong Howe and E. Burton Steene.
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