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Ruggles of Red Gap
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Movie
language
English
duration
90 min
genre
comedy
theme
dance
director
Leo McCarey
Score
5 / 10

Ruggles of Red Gap is a 1935 American comedy 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.

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    award National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
    contentLocation Washington
    director Leo McCarey
    editor Edward Dmytryk
    genre comedy western
    keywords break cook drink extended family for he\'s a jolly good fellow for you gettysburg address help hotel room id local celebrity newspaper article nouveau riche open retire sing society party wait what lincoln said at gettysburg widow
    musicBy Heinz Eric Roemheld
    nomination Academy Award for Best Picture
    producer Arthur Hornblow Jr.
    publisher Paramount Pictures
    theme dance