Ruggles of Red Gap

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.

Cast

Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton

as Marmaduke Ruggles

Mary Boland

Mary Boland

as Effie Floud

Charles Ruggles

Charles Ruggles

as Egbert Floud

Zasu Pitts

Zasu Pitts

as Mrs. Judson

Roland Young

Roland Young

as Earl of Burnstead

Leila Hyams

Leila Hyams

as Nell Kenner

Maude Eburne

Maude Eburne

as 'Ma' Pettingill

Lucien Littlefield

Lucien Littlefield

as Charles Belknap-Jackson

Leota Lorraine

Leota Lorraine

as Mrs. Belknap-Jackson

James Burke

James Burke

as Jeff Tuttle

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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...

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