ROUGH RIDERS
MANY BIG SCENES Fifty boats and 2,000 players assembled for Paramount for one of the biggest sequences of “The Rough Riders,’’ which Victor Fleming is directing. The players, representing Roosevelt’s troops, sailors, and Cuban insurrectors and their families, were quartered in a tent city. The film workers were fed under a huge canvas “Top’’ the size of a circus tent. The boats used included transports for men and horses, barges, supply
boats, and small ship’s boats for landing. A Cuban village was constructed near with thatched huts and tranplanted palm trees. A number of “Teddy’s original i Rough Riders were on hand to witness the reproduction of the landing of the regiment on Cuban soil at Daiquii. They were the guests of Hermann Hagedorn, Roosevelt’s biographer, who wrote the screen story. Featured players participating in the action include Noah Beery, George Bancroft, Charles Emett Mack, Charles Farrell, Fred Kohler, Frank Hopper as Roosevelt, and Col Fred Lindsay as Leonard Wood.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 116, 6 August 1927, Page 14
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