Ruggles of Red Gap
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.
Plot
Marmaduke Ruggles is valet to the Earl of Burnstead in 1908. 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.
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 | Harlan Thompson Walter DeLeon |
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award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
contentLocation | Washington |
director | Leo McCarey |
editor | Edward Dmytryk |
genre | comedy western |
keywords | cook drink extended family for you gettysburg address hotel room id local celebrity newspaper article nouveau riche open retire sing wait widow |
musicBy | Heinz Eric Roemheld |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Picture |
producer | Arthur Hornblow Jr. |
publisher | Paramount Pictures |
theme | dance |