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Ruggles of Red Gap
Ruggles of Red Gap is a 1935 American comedy western film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, and ZaSu Pitts and featuring Roland Young and Leila Hyams. It was based on the best-selling 1915 novel by Harry Leon Wilson, adapted by Humphrey Pearson, with a screenplay by Walter DeLeon and Harlan Thompson. It is the story of a newly rich American couple from the West who win a British gentleman's gentleman in a poker game.
Plot
Marmaduke Ruggles is a valet and butler to the Earl of Burnstead. During a stay in Paris, the Earl tells Ruggles that he has gambled him away in a drunken game of poker, and he is to report to his new masters - nouveau riche American millionaires Egbert and Effie Floud - immediately. Ruggles bemoans the idea of being relegated to "the land of slavery," but he takes his new occupation in stride, helping to get Egbert a new wardrobe and haircut.
Awards
Cast
- Armand Kaliz
- Carrie Daumery
- Charles Laughton
- Charles Ruggles
- Clarence Wilson
- Dell Henderson
- Edward LeSaint
- Frank Mills
- Frank O'Connor
- Frank Rice
- George Burton
- Harry Bernard
- James Burke
- Leila Hyams
- Leota Lorraine
- Lucien Littlefield
- Mary Boland
- Maude Eburne
- Roland Young
- Rolfe Sedan
- Sarah Edwards
- Victor Potel
- Willie Fung
- ZaSu Pitts
More details
author | Walter DeLeon |
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award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
contentLocation | Washington |
director | Leo McCarey |
editor | Edward Dmytryk New York Times Book Company |
genre | comedy western |
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musicBy | Heinz Eric Roemheld |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Picture |
producer | Arthur Hornblow Jr. |
publisher | Paramount Pictures |
theme | dance |