The Rough Riders (1927)

Directed by

Victor Fleming

Genre

silent film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 17m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent war film tells a fictional story about Theodore Roosevelt and his volunteer cavalry unit fighting in Cuba. It follows the American soldiers as they take part in the Spanish-American War, with a focus on their bravery and camaraderie.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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