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1927 film by Victor Fleming
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
.
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This film had an alternate release title,
The Trumpet Call
.
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The
cinematography
was by
James Wong Howe
and E. Burton Steene.
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Cast
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Music
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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.
Preservation
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Incomplete or fragment prints of
The Rough Riders
are extant at the
Museum of Modern Art
and the
Library of Congress
.
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- Teddy bear
- "Speak softly, and carry a big stick"
- Books
- Films
- Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King
, 1901 film
- Roosevelt in Africa
, 1910 documentary
- The Rough Riders
, 1927 film
- Teddy, the Rough Rider
, 1940 film
- Rough Riders
, 1997 miniseries
- The Roosevelts
, 2014 documentary
- Theodore Roosevelt
, 2022 miniseries
- Elkhorn
, 2024 series
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