The Rough Riders (film)

The Rough Riders
The Rough Riders
	Poster with the film's alternate release title The Trumpet Call
Directed by	Victor Fleming
Written by	Herman Hagedorn (story); John F. Goodrich (adapt.); Robert N. Lee (writer); Keene Thompson (writer); George Marion, Jr. (intertitles)
Produced by	Lucien Hubbard; B. P. Schulberg
Starring	Noah Beery; Charles Farrell; George Bancroft; Charles Emmett Mack; Mary Astor; Frank Hooper
Cinematography	James Wong Howe; E. Burton Steene
Edited by	E. Lloyd Sheldon
Music by	Hugo Riesenfeld; J. S. Zamecnik
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	October 1, 1927 (U.S.); February 13, 1928 (Finland);
Running time	105 minutes; (13 reels)
Country	United States
Languages	Silent Version; Sound Version (Synchronized); (English intertitles)
Budget	$1,410,000

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.^[2] This film had an alternate release title, The Trumpet Call.^[3] The cinematography was by James Wong Howe and E. Burton Steene.

Plot

Cast

Noah Beery as Hell's Bells
Charles Farrell as Stuart Van Brunt
George Bancroft as Happy Joe
Charles Emmett Mack as Bert Henley
Mary Astor as Dolly
Frank Hopper as Theodore Roosevelt (some sources list him as Frank Hooper)
Fred Lindsay as Leonard Wood
Fred Kohler as Sgt. Stanton
Mark Hamilton as a soldier

Music

The sound version featured a theme song entitled “Goodbye Dolly Gray,” with lyrics by Will D. Cobb and music by Paul Barnes. Also featured was the song entitled “The Rough Riders” which was composed by Hugo Riesenfeld.