The Rough Riders
AKA The Trumpet Calls in the USA
(1927) American
B&W : 13 reels
Directed by Victor Fleming

Cast: George Bancroft [‘Happy Joe’], Mary Astor [Dolly], Noah Beery (Sr.) [‘Hell’s Bells’], Charles Farrell [Stewart Van Brunt], Charles Emmet Mack [Bert Henley], Frank Hopper [Theodore Roosevelt], Fred Kohler (Sr.) [Sergeant Stanton], Colonel Fred Linsay (Fred Lindsay) [Leonard Wood]

Paramount Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by B.P. Schulberg. Scenario by Robert N. Lee and Keene Thompson, from an adaptation by John F. Goodrich of a story by Herman Hagedorn. Cinematography by James Howe (James Wong Howe). Intertitles by George Marion Jr. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / Released 1 October 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Some location photography was taken near San Antonio, Texas. / Silent film.

Drama: Historical: Spanish-American War.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Museum of Modern Art film archive, and in the Library of Congress film archive [incomplete print].

Keywords: History: US: Spanish-American War: 1898 - Theodore Roosevelt - USA: Texas

Listing updated: 18 January 2005.

References: Katchmer-Eighty p. 12; Pitts-Hollywood pp. 8, 215; Thompson-Lost p. 11 : ClasIm-302 p. 12 : Website-IMDb.