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.

Charles Laughton
as Marmaduke Ruggles

Mary Boland
as Effie Floud

Charles Ruggles
as Egbert Floud

Zasu Pitts
as Mrs. Judson

Roland Young
as Earl of Burnstead

Leila Hyams
as Nell Kenner

Maude Eburne
as 'Ma' Pettingill

Lucien Littlefield
as Charles Belknap-Jackson

Leota Lorraine
as Mrs. Belknap-Jackson

James Burke
as Jeff Tuttle
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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 unsop...