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(£A monument to Teddy and his boys in the littie spat with Spain.
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ee-lighted" and "Bully" are the two adjectives to use in describing "The Rough Riders' when your friends ask you if it's worth see' ing. And if you can imagine a Roosevelt grin at the same time, all the better. This picture is a monu' ment to Teddy and his hard-riding boys in the little fight with Spain a few years back. It's an "epic" of the days of 98, when women had waistlines, men had mustaches, and courtships were conducted on bicycles-built-for-two instead of in chummy roadsters ("The Rough Riders'' also presents the first known snapshot of a girl walking home from a buggy ride.) It's rousing melodrama, tender romance, and slapstick comedy in one. It's more typically American in theme, treatment, acting, titles, than any film I've ever seen. The music score features such old favorites as "Dolly Gray", " A Hot Time in the Old Town To' night" and "Break the News to Mother". You'll hear cautious humming around you if you listen.
C[ That long, hot march is so moving that the audience is in an agony of pity before it's over.
Roosevelt, played by Frank Hopper, is the heroic central figure; but the story of "The Rough Riders' chiefly concerns itself with the romance of one girl, Dolly, and two boys — a daredevil and an angel, deadly rivals, each aspiring to Cuban heroics for her sake. The angel finds death in a brave charge against the Spaniards and his own cowardice; the daredevil risks his own life to carry his dying rival back to camp. That long, hot march is so moving that the audience is in an agony of pity before it's over. The performance of the two boys will get you: Charlie Farrell's as the daredevil, and Charles Emmet Mack's. The latter's death "scene is all the more poignant because it was that fine young actor's last scene before any camera. It was a fitting farewell.
Whether you like it or not, there's another one of the comedy acts played by Bancroft and Beery — Noah, this time True to tradition among "epics", the big boys carry on in the same old way. I think I must be growing old along with their gags.
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