Ruggles of Red Gap

• 7.0 Comedy
• 1935-03-08
• 90 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Charles Laughton (Marmaduke Ruggles) Mary Boland (Effie Floud) Charles Ruggles (Egbert Floud) Zasu Pitts (Mrs. Judson) Roland Young (Earl of Burnstead) Leila Hyams (Nell Kenner) Maude Eburne ('Ma' Pettingill) Lucien Littlefield (Charles Belknap-Jackson) Leota Lorraine (Mrs. Belknap-Jackson) James Burke (Jeff Tuttle)

Director:

Leo McCarey

Writer:

Walter DeLeon Harlan Thompson