Ruggles of Red Gap

Ruggles of Red Gap

8/3/1935 1h 30m 7.1/10

Overview

In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl - is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.

Director

Leo McCarey

Top Billed Cast

Roland Young

Roland Young

Earl of Burnstead

Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton

Marmaduke Ruggles

Charles Ruggles

Charles Ruggles

Egbert Floud

Leila Hyams

Leila Hyams

Nell Kenner

Zasu Pitts

Zasu Pitts

Mrs. Judson

Mary Boland

Mary Boland

Effie Floud

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/19/2022

7/10

Charles Laughton is superb as a butler who is lost in a poker game by his English aristocrat employer and so has to relocate to "Red Gap" to work for a couple nouveau riche Americans at the start of the 1900s. Initially a fish out of water in his new home with his brash, socially aspiring, but unsophisticated new American employers he quickly turns this all to his advantage and what ensues is a delightful, subtle piece of comedy. I'm still searching for a bad Laughton film, this certainly isn't it - well worth 90 minutes of your time.

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