The Rough Riders (1927) is a silent film directed by Victor Fleming, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Noah Beery, Sr., Charles Farrell, George Bancroft, and Mary Astor. The picture is fictional account of Theodore Roosevelt's military unit in Cuba.[1] This film had an alternate release name: The Trumpet Call.[2] The cinematography was by James Wong Howe and E. Burton Steene.

The Rough Riders
A poster bearing the film's alternate release name: 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 (1927-10-01) (U.S.) February 13, 1928 (1928-02-13) (Finland)
Running time	105 minutes (13 reels)
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

Incomplete or fragment prints of this movie are extant at the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress.[3]

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 have him as Frank Hooper)
• Fred Lindsay as Leonard Wood
• Fred Kohler as Sgt. Stanton
• Mark Hamilton as a soldier

References

External links

• The Rough Riders at IMDb
• The Rough Riders at SilentEra
• The Rough Riders at AllMovie
• 1927 New York Times review by Mourdant Hall

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