The Bugle Call [SEP] director
The Bugle Call
The Bugle Call is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Jackie Coogan and Claire Windsor, which was released on August 6, 1927.
The Lost Film Files database lists this film as being lost.
Plot.
Billy Randalph (Coogan) who is a young bugler on a frontier cavalry post in the mid-1870s, whose stepmother Alice Tremayne (Windsor) attempts to replace his real mother who only lives in his memory.
Cast.
- Jackie Coogan as Billy
Sunset (bugle call)
Sunset, also known as the Retreat Call, is a bugle call played in United Kingdom and British Commonwealth countries to signal the end of the official military day. In common with all bugle calls, it consists only of notes from a single overtone series. This allows it to be playable on a bugle or equivalently on a trumpet without moving the valves.
The call is regularly heard performed in an arrangement for full military band by Captain A.C. Green (1888–1974), who was Director of